Kia Parts/Service Advisor Apprentice - Washington – Find an apprenticeship

Summary

The Kia Academy offers a bespoke apprenticeship programme that focuses on education in electrification. Kia Parts and Service Advisor Apprentices will obtain the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to not only become an expert Kia Parts/Service Advisor but also ensure they have a successful career with Kia whilst maximising personal growth.

Annual wage: £13,312 a year
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Training course: Customer service specialist (level 3)
Hours: Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm. Occasional Saturdays (to be confirmed).
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 6 January
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

As an apprentice, you’ll work at the Dealership and get practical experience in the role each day. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced Kia Parts and Service teams.

Some of your day-to-day duties will include:

Customer contact
Taking customer bookings and scheduling services and repairs
Communicating the customers' work and faults to the vehicle technicians
Handling customer complaints
Advice and guidance for vehicle care and warranty retention and warranty claim
Sales/advice for accessories and modifications
Collating information for CSI

Where you’ll work

London Road

Washington

Pulborough

RH20 4AJ

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

SKILLNET LIMITED

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 Kia Apprenticeship Programme operates using a 12-week cycle. Within each 12-week period, Apprentices will receive the following teaching learning and assessment:

One college block attendance with teaching delivered by dedicated Tutors (both via Virtual Classroom Training and face-to-face at the Kia Academy in Derby)
One workplace visit face-to-face with their dedicated Skills Coach
One tripartite progress review involving the Apprentice, Skills Coach and their workplace mentor
One 1:1 teaching session with their dedicated Skills Coach via virtual classroom

Please note that accommodation will be provided for apprentices attending training at the Kia Academy in Derby using the designated hotel selected for the Kia Apprenticeship Programme (if required).

More training information

L3 Customer service specialist Apprenticeship Standard

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

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

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
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative

About this company

Birchwood want employees to come to work and be their best selves, which is why our values Team Spirt, Commitment, Passion, Respect and Fun are really important. We believe in these values as they underpin our policies, business objectives and provide an anchor and reference point for all things that happen in the Company. These core values support our vision, shape the culture and help Birchwood in their decision-making processes. We understand that by having engaged employees we enable them to provide higher levels of customer service than our competitors. It is not all about work we also have fun! We believe in supporting both local and national charities with events throughout the year. An opportunity for employees to show their creative side as well as for the whole Birchwood family to gather together and have fun.

https://www.birchwoodgroup.co.uk/careers/culture/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

A full-time career within the automotive industry, with many opportunities to progress to positions of authority. The opportunities are endless
By having a highly regarded set of skills, apprentices can go on to develop their careers within specific interests they may have, such as progressing through the dealership

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SKILLNET LIMITED

Jose Faria

Jose.faria@skillnet.org.uk

01923 630800

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000290714.

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Closes in 10 days (Tuesday 31 December at 11:59pm)

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Kia Parts/Service Advisor Apprentice - Washington

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