customer service training - apprenticeship

customer service training - apprenticeship - overview

Title

Apprenticeship in Customer Service

Level

2

Equivalent

Five GCSE’s A-G

Duration

6-12 Months

Suitable for

Customer focused roles

Locations

All sales, service and entertainment locations

Awarding Body

City & Guilds

Sector Skills Council

Institute of Customer Service

Careers

Sales, Service and Enterntainment

Start Date

Flexible around the needs of the business

Funding

Apprenticeships, Train to Gain

customer service training - apprenticeship - framework components

nvq level 2 in customer service

Mandatory Units

The NVQ consists of the following 2 mandatory units:

  • Prepare yourself to deliver good customer service
  • Provide customer service within the rules

Optional Units

And 5 of the following optional units from the themes below, including at least 1 unit from each theme.

Impression and Image

  • Make customer service personal
  • Go the extra mile in customer service
  • Deal with customers in writing or using ICT
  • Deal with customers face to face
  • Deal with customers by telephone
  • Give customers a positive impression of yourself and your organisation
  • Promote additional services or products to customers
  • Process customer service information
  • Live up to the customer service promise

Delivery

  • Deliver customer service on your customers' premises
  • Deliver reliable customer service
  • Recognise diversity when delivering customer service

Handling Problems

  • Resolve customer service problems
  • Recognise and deal with customer queries, requests and problems

Development and Improvement

  • Develop personal performance through delivering customer service
  • Develop customer relationships
  • Support customer service improvements

key skills

The Key Skills required for this framework are:

  • Application of Number Level 1
  • Communication Level 1

technical certificate - level 2 certificate in customer service

The Technical Certificate consists of the following elements