Level 2 Customer Service Practitioner Apprenticeship
Swish Building Products
Tamworth, B79 7TF
Closes in 11 days (Monday 2 December at 11:59pm)
Posted on 29 October 2024
Contents
Summary
A great opportunity to join a large and successful company Swish Building Products part of Epwin Group PLC based Tamworth. As their customer service apprentice, you will assist the customer service team with customer facing and administration tasks whilst learning the functions of the business to enable your personal development.
- Annual wage
- £15,000 a year
- Training course
- Customer service practitioner (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm.
35 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 9 December
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
Duties to include
- To collate and scan all delivery notes into the Navision system so that proof of deliveries can be provided to any customer requesting one
- Ensure that all delivery notes are filed correctly
- Contact customers on a weekly basis and establish how many stillages require collection and update the transport team
- Filing of sales orders
- Issuing collection note paperwork
- Raising cases on CRM system
- Maintenance of filing systems
- Checking and processing of sales orders
- Assisting the department with scanning of documents
- Admin support as and when required both the Customer Service Team and Credit Control Department
Where you’ll work
Pioneer House
Lichfield Road
Tamworth
B79 7TF
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
JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED
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
- Level 2 Customer Service Practitioner Standard
- Support with English and maths (if required)
- Work based learning
- End Point Assessment
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- GCSE English and Maths (grade A*-C/9-4 or Level 2 FS)
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
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Punctual and adaptable
- Willingness to learn and grow
- Positive approach to work
Other requirements
Mandatory role responsibilities • Adherence to all organisational policies, management systems and standard operational procedures, including legal responsibilities in relation to Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality. • Work positively to develop and foster good working relationships with colleagues and contracted personnel in order to maintain a culture of mutual respect and dignity. • Represent the organisation in a positive way as to avoid the damage of corporate image or bringing the company into disrepute. • Promote and Display the Epwin Core Values.
About this company
Swish Building Products is probably the best-known UK manufacturer of roofline and cladding products. Many people still recognise the Swish name from the days when it was closely associated with curtain tracks and poles, but that was a long time ago and today there is no connection between the two businesses. Swish is now part of the Epwin Group of businesses that supplies fascias, cladding, windows doors, decking and many other low maintenance building products to the new build, social housing and domestic refurbishment markets.
After this apprenticeship
- Further development and ongoing employment will be offered whenever possible upon successful completion of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED
Diane Jones
diane.jones@junipertraining.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000284591.
Apply now
Closes in 11 days (Monday 2 December at 11:59pm)
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