Customer Service Practitioner (Standard Level 2)
| Mode of study | Apprenticeship |
| Duration | Please ring for details |
| Campus | London Road Campus |
| Start date | 1 August 2022 |
| Course code | PLR2UCS (APPO) |
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Who is it for?
The role of a customer service practitioner is to deliver high quality products and services to the customers of their organisation. Your main responsibility will be to provide a high quality service to customers which will be delivered from the workplace, digitally, or through going out into the customer’s own locality. These may be one-off or routine contacts and include dealing with orders, payments, offering advice, guidance and support, meet-and-greet, sales, fixing problems, after care, service recovery or gaining insight through measuring customer satisfaction. You may be the first point of contact and work in any sector or organisation type.
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What does the course involve?
As an Apprenticeship standard, you will be assessed against your knowledge, skills and behaviours.
Knowledge includes – knowing your customer, understanding the organisation, meeting regulations and legislation, systems and resources, your role and responsibilities, customer experience, product and service knowledge
Skills include – interpersonal skills, communication, influencing skills, personal organisation, dealing with customer conflict and challenge
Behaviours include – developing self, being open to feedback, team working, and equality – treating all customers as individuals, presentation (dress code), professional language and the ‘right first time’ rule
Full details can be found here
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How is the course assessed?
Delivered entirely in the workplace, you will be visited regularly by your assessor for the duration of your apprenticeship, assessed against your knowledge and skills in readiness for an independent End Point Assessment.
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Additional Notes
Typically this takes 12-14 months to complete, depending on your previous knowledge and experience.
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What do I do next?
To be an apprentice you will need an employer who can offer you work and release you for your training. Once you have an employer in place, you can apply online. If after reading this fact sheet, you are still undecided about the course most suitable for you, please drop in to one of our Advice Events, ring the Apprenticeship Team on 01743 260400 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Luka Freeman
Business Apprentice at Kingsland Financial
I tried the Business Administration Apprenticeship without a lot of work experience or relevant qualifications and very little confidence. My employer gave me a safe and stable environment to learn new and different skills and liaised with the college which tailored the qualification modules to suit my job role. It was an excellent route for me because it gave me the opportunity to learn new skills I had never imagined I would be good at.
Josh Smith
Level 3 Extended Diploma in Business
Previous School: Lakelands Academy
I like that the course is assignment based, which suits my skills a lot more than doing exams. There are also a lot of practical elements to the course which I really enjoyed, like doing presentations, creating displays and taking part in class debates. The course has given me a good understanding of how businesses work, and it’s been my steppingstone into employment. I’ve got an apprenticeship in a recruitment business in Shrewsbury set up for after I leave college.
Giles Morgan
Level 2 Diploma in Business
Previous School: Church Stretton School
I liked the small business planning part of the course most of all. We were taught the basics of how to start your own business up and the financial planning that goes into that, so the course has given me ideas about how I could organise my own business and move forward in the right direction. My mum runs her own small catering business and I want to start a similar business of my own when I finish college.
Lewis Revitt
Advanced Carpentry and Joinery Apprentice
I have come to the end of my apprenticeship and have gained not only practical joinery skills but also life skills such as organisation and communication. I have learnt how to work safely and well in a team environment. This apprenticeship has been a brilliant way to earn and learn along the way and has set me up with skills and qualifications to carry me through the rest of my working life.
Fin Shelley
A Level Business (Economics, Statistics)
Previous school: Thomas Adams School
The teachers are engaging at SCG and I really enjoy the lessons – they are well taught. I have enjoyed learning about finance and also how Twitter can be used in national and international business. Over the Summer I successfully gained an Internship with the JP Morgan Think Ahead Program.
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