Customer Service Apprentice

Summary

In this role, you'll be responsible for conducting telephone surveys to customers to gather and record their feedback, assessing the quality of casework across the department, providing administrative support to the Customer Feedback Team, and ensuring the accurate documentation and review of complaints.

Wage

£15,300 a year

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Training course

Customer service specialist (level 3)

Hours

Monday to Friday, either 8am to 4pm, or 9am to 5pm. No evening or weekend work.

37 hours a week

Start date

Friday 30 May 2025

Duration

1 year 3 months

Positions available

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

Gathering insights into customer satisfaction by completing telephone surveys across a range of service areas and accurately recording feedback.
Carry out quality assurance of casework for complaints and other functions within the Customer Service Directorate against established quality checklists to maintain high standards and identify any service improvement.
Provide effective and efficient administrative support to the Customer Feedback Team and, if necessary, other service areas within the Customer Service Directorate.
Support the Customer Feedback Team with Stage 2 complaint coordination by providing additional administrative support and documenting learning outcomes.
Map business processes in response to insights from complaints and implement improvement recommendations.

Where you’ll work

Myriad House
23 Springfield Lyons Approach
Springfield
Chelmsford
CM2 5LB

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

CHELMSFORD COLLEGE

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'll undertake the Customer Service Specialist Level 3 apprenticeship with Chelmsford College.

Requirements

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
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative
Non judgemental

About this company

We’re a local housing association that’s passionate about tackling the housing shortage in the East of England. We provide warm, safe and affordable homes. But we don’t stop there. We offer a wide range of support and services to help our customers and their communities to thrive. We want to be an organisation that cares about our customers and communities and is determined to make a difference. We'll be bold and open-minded in our pursuit of solutions to help people transform their lives.

Company benefits

Healthcare cash plan. Reward and recognition scheme. Employee Assistance Programme. 15 hours volunteering leave. Great pension scheme. 25 days leave per annum, plus bank holidays. Closed between Christmas and New Year, and 1 wellbeing day per annum.

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Apprentices at CHP are encouraged to apply for future positions when their contract ends.

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