Summary
At Flying Spares, You’ll be working within a fast-paced, challenging, environment, where you’ll be encouraged to push boundaries and challenge convention. As a automotive manufacturer, and fast growing, you’ll have the opportunity to work within an business environment, and grow with the company.
Wage
£15,704 a year
Training course
Customer service practitioner (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 8.00am - 5.00pm, with a 30 min lunch.
40 hours a week
Possible start date
Tuesday 15 April
Duration
1 year 3 months
Positions available
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
The Apprenticeship Programme is designed to train and develop you in a way that enables you to learn the core elements of your job role using advancing technology as well as fostering an exceptional level of customer service.
Duties will include:
* Working with customers to meet their requirements and giving advice on additional parts and services
* Matching orders against stock items and sourcing parts, while offering competitive prices
* Working as a team and independently to reach set goals and KPIs
* Delivering fantastic customer service while remaining efficient and focused on your tasks
* Incoming and outgoing call handling, face-to-face transactions, and IT-based communications
* Managing goods in and out
* Working with suppliers, placing orders or returns and processing paperwork accurately
* Working to a high level of customer service at all times and remain courteous and police to customers
Where you’ll work
Unit 28
Merrylees Industrial Estate, Leeside, Desford
Leicester
LE9 9FS
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
NOTTINGHAM COLLEGE
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
Candidates will work towards achieving Level 2 Customer Service Practitioner apprenticeship stanard. They will also be required to study towards achieving level 2 maths and English functional skills if they do not already hold equivalent qualifications.
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Level 2 Customer Service Practitioner apprenticeship standard.
Standard Training will include:
* Nationally recognised qualifications
* IMI level 2 Certificate in Customer Service for the Automotive Industry
* ATA Accreditation
* Regular in dealer review and assessment visits
* Functional skills if needed
More training information
Training is compleated vertually online with the trainer once a month as well as off the job training within the workplace.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* Maths And English (grade 3)
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
* Administrative skills
* Number skills
* Analytical skills
* Logical
* Team working
* Initiative
* Non judgemental
* Patience
Other requirements
The candidate must be available to start as soon as possible and be able to travel to the workplace according to the working hours. The candidate must be able to attend the block release training weeks in Nottingham. The current National Minimum Wage (NMW) rate for apprentices is £6.40 per hour. This applies to 16-18year old apprentices and those aged over 18 in the first year of their Apprenticeship. For all other apprentices the National Minimum wage appropriate to their age applies. The Minimum Wage for Apprentices applies to time spent on the job plus time spent training. * Please note that anyone under the age of 18 will only work a maximum of 40 hours per week. Any role which exceeds these hours on advert will be amended accordingly to fall in line with the legislation * Please note that if the successful applicant is found prior to the closing date the vacancy maybe withdrawn early