Customer Service Apprentice - Greenford
GLOBAL BANKING SCHOOL LTD
Greenford, UB6 0HE
Closes in 27 days (Tuesday 17 December)
Posted on 19 November 2024
Contents
Summary
As a Customer Service apprentice, you will be trained to provide excellent customer service by managing and responding to inbound queries from students. The role will offer a great opportunity to learn the fundamentals of customer service, telephony systems, and collaboration with internal teams.
- Annual wage
- £18,000 a year
- Training course
- Customer service specialist (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday (Times TBC)
40 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Wednesday 18 December
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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2
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
- Ensure a quality Campus experience through the delivery of a highly student-focused administrative support service
- Providing high quality student administration and 'one-stop shop' student advice service on Campus in collaboration with other operational teams such as Facilities, Welfare and IT
- Responding to enquiries from students, providing detailed responses to their enquiries about the types of support available
- Respond with speed and accuracy to email, phone, and in-person enquiries
- Identify and promote internal and external resources to students
- Apply sensitivity and discretion when dealing with confidential information and confidently refer more complex issues to specialist staff
- Work flexibly as part of the Customer Services Team and be available for occasional evening and weekend work as required
Where you’ll work
Global Banking School, Horsenden House, 891 Greenford Road
Greenford
UB6 0HE
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
METAGEDU APPRENTICESHIPS 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
The successful candidate will complete a Customer Service Specialist Level 3 Apprenticeship standard:
Level 3 Customer Service Specialist Standard:
- Functional Skills Level 2 in maths - if applicable
- Functional Skills Level 2 in English - if applicable
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- Maths (grade 4-9)
- English (grade 4-9)
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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- IT skills
- Team working
Other requirements
Starting salary of £18,000 progressing up to £25,000 upon completion + performance based bonus.
About this company
Global Banking School (GBS) is a dynamic and fast growing Higher Education provider with campuses across the UK. We are a vibrant and diverse family of committed staff bringing life-changing learning to a wider range of communities. Applying evidence-based research and corporate case studies to classroom learning, we provide higher education that has real impact and real world relevance.
After this apprenticeship
- Excellent progression available within the company
- The successful applicant will undertake more responsibilities as the Apprenticeship develops with a strong view to securing permanent employment on completion
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
METAGEDU APPRENTICESHIPS LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000288264.
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Closes in 27 days (Tuesday 17 December)
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