Customer Service Practioner Level 2 (24/25)

Course Overview

The role of a customer service practitioner is to deliver high quality products and services to the customers of their organisation. Your core responsibility will be to provide a high quality service to customers which will be delivered from the workplace, digitally, or through going out into the customers own locality.

These may be one-off or routine contacts and include dealing with orders, payments, offering advice, guidance and support, meet-and-greet, sales, fixing problems, after care, service recovery or gaining insight through measuring customer satisfaction. You may be the first point of contact and work in any sector or organisation type.   

Your actions will influence the customer experience and their satisfaction with your organisation. You will demonstrate excellent customer service skills and behaviours as well as product and/or service knowledge when delivering to your customers. You provide service in line with the organisations customer service standards and strategy and within appropriate regulatory requirements. Your customer interactions may cover a wide range of situations and can include; face-to-face, telephone, post, email, text and social media.  

Ideal for those looking to go into a customer facing role from industries such as Retail and Sales for the first time, this Level 2 apprenticeship is a great opportunity to gain hands on industry experience and act as a stepping stone to becoming a Customer Service Specialist. This programme is ideal for school leavers right through to mature apprentices wanting to retrain.


What topics are covered?

Knowledge

Knowing your customers

Understanding the organisation

Meeting regulations and legislation

Systems and resources

Your role and responsibility

Customer experience

Product and service knowledge

 

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Influencing skills

Personal organisation

Demonstrate patience and calmness.

 

Behaviours

Developing self

Team working

Equality treating all customers as individuals

Presentation dress code, professional language

Right first time


Interested in applying?

Course Details

Course Type: Apprenticeship
Campus: City Centre (Bath)
Level: Intermediate
Duration: 15 months

Frequently asked questions

The role of a customer service practitioner is to deliver high quality products and services to the customers of their organisation. Your core responsibility will be to provide a high quality service to customers which will be delivered from the workplace, digitally, or through going out into the customers own locality.

These may be one-off or routine contacts and include dealing with orders, payments, offering advice, guidance and support, meet-and-greet, sales, fixing problems, after care, service recovery or gaining insight through measuring customer satisfaction. You may be the first point of contact and work in any sector or organisation type.   

Your actions will influence the customer experience and their satisfaction with your organisation. You will demonstrate excellent customer service skills and behaviours as well as product and/or service knowledge when delivering to your customers. You provide service in line with the organisations customer service standards and strategy and within appropriate regulatory requirements. Your customer interactions may cover a wide range of situations and can include; face-to-face, telephone, post, email, text and social media.  

Ideal for those looking to go into a customer facing role from industries such as Retail and Sales for the first time, this Level 2 apprenticeship is a great opportunity to gain hands on industry experience and act as a stepping stone to becoming a Customer Service Specialist. This programme is ideal for school leavers right through to mature apprentices wanting to retrain.

Apprentices without level 1 English and Maths (GCSE 3/D) will need to achieve this level and take the test for level 2 English and Maths (GCSE 4/C) prior to taking the end-point assessment. (Please note those apprentices wanting to progress onto a Level 3 Apprenticeship programme must achieve the Level 2 in Maths and English before being able to do so.)
Apprenticeship Standard Level 2 Membership of the Institute of Customer Service as an Individual member at Professional level.
Classroom and work based teaching and assessment to monitor, knowledge, skills and behaviours to ensure industry competencies.
Customer Service Specialist Level 3