Customer Service Advisor Apprenticeship - Bristol Street Motors Vauxhall Crewe
VERTU MOTORS PLC
Crewe (CW1 6GY)
Closes on Wednesday 27 August 2025
Posted on 27 March 2025
Contents
Summary
This Apprenticeship Programme is an exciting opportunity to kick-start your career. This apprenticeship offers a unique opportunity to learn the ins and outs of customer service and vehicle maintenance coordination within the automotive industry. Under the guidance of experienced service advisors.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Customer service practitioner (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday: 8.30am - 5.30pm.
However, each of our dealers will have different requirements (TBC).
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 2 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
As a Vehicle Service Advisor, you will develop the ability to interpret customer and business needs using technology and resources to deliver first-class customer service. The role of a Service Advisor typically involves:
- Assist customers in scheduling service appointments, providing information on available services, and answering enquiries
- Greet customers in a professional and courteous manner, ensuring a positive service experience
- Liaise between customers and service technicians to convey vehicle concerns, service requirements, and estimated completion times
- Learn to interpret vehicle maintenance schedules, service manuals, and repair estimates to provide accurate recommendations to customers
- Coordinate with the parts department to ensure timely availability of required components for service appointments
- Keep customers informed of service progress, including any additional repairs or maintenance identified during inspections
- Handle customer complaints and concerns effectively, striving to achieve satisfactory resolutions
- Utilise computerised systems to input service orders, generate invoices, and maintain customer records accurately
- Maintain a clean and organised service reception area, ensuring a professional and welcoming atmosphere for customers
- Participate in training sessions and workshops to enhance customer service skills, product knowledge, and industry awareness
Where you’ll work
Macon Way
Crewe
CW1 6GY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
CALEX UK LTD
Your training course
Customer service practitioner (level 2)
Equal to GCSE
Course contents
- Use a range of questioning skills, including listening and responding in a way that builds rapport, determines customer needs and expectations and achieves positive engagement and delivery.
- Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication skills, along with summarising language during face-to-face communications; and/or
- Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate communication skills, along with reinforcement techniques (to confirm understanding) during non-facing customer interactions.
- Depending on your job role and work environment: Use an appropriate ‘tone of voice’ in all communications, including written and digital, that reflect the organisation’s brand.
- Provide clear explanations and offer options in order to help customers make choices that are mutually beneficial to both the customer and your organisation.
- Be able to organise yourself, prioritise your own workload/activity and work to meet deadlines.
- Demonstrate patience and calmness.
- Show you understand the customer’s point of view.
- Use appropriate sign-posting or resolution to meet your customers needs and manage expectations.
- Maintain informative communication during service recovery.
Your training plan
- The programme typically lasts for 14 months, and you’ll achieve a nationally recognised qualification (Customer Service Practitioner Level 2)
- All of our apprentices are employed through the dealer network and attend week-long block training at our state-of-the-art training centre in Coventry.
- Block training is complemented by a combination of regular coaching visits from one of our experienced coaches as well as virtual classroom sessions and E-Learning modules
- Your development is supported through your Apprenticeship journey, with your learning focused towards achieving a qualification recognised across the motor industry
- This will provide the foundation to develop your career, as there are lots of opportunities within our expanding dealer network to progress and move into new roles once you’re qualified
- Further details will be made available at a later date
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent 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
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Patience
About this company
Bristol Street Motors was established from a single motor retail dealership in Bristol Street, Birmingham. Now, Bristol Street Motors operate under the Vertu Motors Group and has grown to become a national brand recognised for its honesty, integrity and quality customer service. Serving England from our local dealerships, we represent 15 of the world's major manufacturers; Citroen, CUPRA, Dacia, DS, Ford, Hyundai, Mazda, MG, Nissan, Peugeot, Renault, SEAT, SKODA, Toyota, and Vauxhall as well as offering a wide variety of quality assured used cars across a range of the best-known car franchises. Our dealership teams are on hand to offer the highest standards in sales and aftercare for new cars, used cars and commercial vehicles. We have a range of aftercare services to choose from including car servicing, MOT, seasonal health checks and accident repairs. Our quality customer service has led us from strength to strength, allowing us to retain our place as one of the largest motor retailers in England whilst building on our reputation as one of the country's most trusted new and used dealership groups.
After this apprenticeship
There are lots of opportunities within our expanding dealer network to progress and move into new roles once you’ve successfully completed the programme.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CALEX UK LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000312257.
Apply now
Closes on Wednesday 27 August 2025
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