Customer Service Practitioner Intermediate Apprenticeship Standard

Apprentices learn the skills needed to deliver excellent customer service, including communication, problem-solving and handling customer inquiries, preparing them for roles in customer-facing positions across various industries.

The topics you will cover whilst training include: 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 customer�s 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 organisation�s 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.

The End Point Assessment includes: Practical observationApprentice showcaseProfessional discussion The End Point Assessment includes: To start the End Point Assessment, Apprentices must hold a Level 1 English and maths qualification.

Candidates need a minimum of four GCSEs, including maths & English (minimum grade 3/D).

Typical job roles include: Customer Service Apprentices may be the first point of contact and will work in a range of roles including Customer Service Assistants and Representatives/Agents. If you successfully achieve all parts of the apprenticeship, your assessor will discuss your next steps to take. Dependent on your roles and responsibilities, this may be the next level of the subject you have been studying already or a different pathway.