Back
Customer service practitioner
Providing customer service products and services for businesses and other organisations including face-to-face, telephone, digital and written contact and communications.
Summary of this apprenticeship standard
- Level
-
2 (equivalent to GCSEs at grades A* to C)
- Typical length
- 12 months
- Current funding band
-
Up to £3,500 per apprentice.
More information about funding - Entry requirements
-
Set by employer.
- What apprentices will learn
-
- customer service principles and practices - including customer experience and feedback, internal and external customers, needs and priorities, targets and goals and right first time
- business principles and practices - including brand promise, core values, complaints process, internal policies and legislation and regulatory requirements
- customer service skills - including building rapport and trust, conflict management and influencing and reinforcement techniques
- communications - including interpersonal, tone of voice and verbal and non-verbal communications
- presentation - including dressing appropriately and using positive and confident language
- using customer service tools and resources - including those used to meet customer needs and measure, monitor and evaluate customer service levels
- Qualifications
-
None specified.
Before taking their end-point assessment apprentices must:
- achieve level 1 English and maths (equivalent to GCSEs at grades D to G)
- take the test for level 2 English and maths (equivalent to GCSEs at grades A* to C)
- Professional registration
-
Apprentices will be able to join the Institute of Customer Service as an individual member at professional level.
- End-Point Assessment
-
View a list of end-point assessment organisations for this standard
- More Information
The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has more detailed information about this apprenticeship.