Property Management and Customer Service Apprenticeship

J LANGABEER LTD -

COLCHESTER, CO1 1LS

Closes in 10 days (Monday 30 September at 11:59pm)

Posted on 20 August 2024


Summary

Property Management Support Administrator is responsible for property inspections; liaising with clients and Tenants and contractors regarding property maintenance, refurbishments and rent arrears.

Annual wage
£9,984 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

Training course
Customer service specialist (level 3)
Hours
Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm One Saturday a month 9am - 4pm You will receive a day off during the week for this.

30 hours a week

Possible start date

Tuesday 1 October

Duration

1 Year 3 Months

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

  • Support the property manager with check ins and check outs and property inspections
  • Customer service
  • Rent arrears
  • Property maintenance and refurbishments
  • Liasing with clients

Where you’ll work

1 MONTROSE HOUSE

ELD LANE

COLCHESTER

CO1 1LS

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

THELIGHTBULB LTD

Your training course

Customer service specialist (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents
  • Business focused service delivery: Demonstrate a continuous improvement and future focussed approach to customer service delivery including decision making and providing recommendations or advice
  • Business focused service delivery: Resolve complex issues by being able to choose from and successfully apply a wide range of approaches
  • Business focused service delivery: Find solutions that meet your organisations needs as well as the customer requirements
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Through advanced questioning, listening and summarising negotiate mutually beneficial outcomes
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Manage challenging and complicated situations within your level of authority and make recommendations to enable and deliver change to service or strategy
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Use clear explanations, provide options and solutions to influence and help customers make choices and agree next steps
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Explore and interpret the customer experience to inform and influence achieving a positive result for customer satisfaction
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Demonstrate a cost conscious mind-set when meeting customer and the business needs
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Identifying where highs and lows of the customer journey produce a range of emotions in the customer
  • Providing a positive customer experience: Use written and verbal communication to simplify and provide complex information in a way that supports positive customer outcome in the relevant format
  • Working with customers/customer insights: Proactively gather customer feedback, through a variety of methods. Critically analyse, and evaluate the meaning, implication and facts and act upon it
  • Working with customers/customer insights: Analyse your customer types, to identify or anticipate their potential needs and expectations when providing your service
  • Customer Service performance: Maintain a positive relationship even when you are unable to deliver the customer’s expected outcome
  • Customer Service performance: When managing referrals or escalations take into account historical interactions and challenges to determine next steps
  • Service Improvement: Analyse the end to end service experience, seeking input from others where required, supporting development of solutions
  • Service Improvement: Make recommendations based on your findings to enable improvement
  • Service Improvement: Make recommendations and implement where possible, changes in line with new and relevant legislation, regulations and industry best practice
  • Your training plan

    • You will achieve your Level 3 Customer Service Specialist Apprenticeship Standard
    • There are workshops that you need to attend via Zoom
    • You will have a mentor for one-to-one tuition
    • On-site training will be given to support specifics of the role

    Requirements

    Essential qualifications

    GCSE in:

    • English (grade 4/C)
    • Maths (grade 4/C)

    Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

    Skills

    • Communication skills
    • IT skills
    • Attention to detail
    • Organisation skills
    • Customer care skills
    • Problem solving skills
    • Administrative skills
    • Logical
    • Team working

    Other requirements

    Please consider that you will need a driving licence and car for this position.

    About this company

    Belvoir Colchester is a privately owned franchise business with a small team who work closely together to deliver great customer service. The business is small enough to be flexible to meet clients needs and implement changes as and when necessary. The owner takes the same approach to staff development and welfare and encourages apprentices to develop their skills within the team in areas they find most interesting as if the team enjoy their roles, the business will be better for it.

    https://www.belvoir.co.uk/colchester-estate-agents/ (opens in new tab)

    After this apprenticeship

    There will be ongoing opportunities to progress and develop for the right candidate upon completion of their apprenticeship.

    Ask a question

    The contact for this apprenticeship is:

    THELIGHTBULB LTD

    Andrea Gregory

    Andrea@thelightbulb.net

    07764 969337

    The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000272342.

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    Closes in 10 days (Monday 30 September at 11:59pm)

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