Apprentice Customer Service
Core Facility Services
Elland (HX5 9HP)
Closes in 15 days (Tuesday 30 June 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 15 June 2026
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Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, bright, hardworking individual to join our office team, to provide high-quality service and support to our customers, including Customer Care and Telesales duties whilst working towards an Advanced Level 3 Customer Specialist qualification.
- Wage
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£16,224 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Customer service specialist (level 3)
- Hours
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Working week will be Monday, 8:15 am - 5:00 pm. Tuesday - Thursday, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm and Friday, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm. Lunch is 30-minutes, with two 15-minute breaks, other than Friday were there is no afternoon break.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 27 July 2026
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
The duties of the role are:
The role, after training, will include administration, customer care and telesales duties, including some of the following areas:
- Active telephone calling to customers, customer engagement and customer care
- General administrative duties
- Filing, photocopying and distribution of documents
- Using Microsoft Packages
- Inputting data
- Deal courteously with visitors
- Dealing with stationery/stock levels
- Assisting all members of the team as required
This list is not exhaustive, and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by the manager which are relevant to your role within the company to meet the overall business needs.
Where you'll work
Orchard House
1 Park Road
Elland
HX5 9HP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
C.M.S. VOCATIONAL TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Customer service specialist (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Business focused service delivery: Demonstrate a continuous improvement and future focussed approach to customer service delivery including decision making and providing recommendations or advice
- Business focused service delivery: Resolve complex issues by being able to choose from and successfully apply a wide range of approaches
- Business focused service delivery: Find solutions that meet your organisations needs as well as the customer requirements
- Providing a positive customer experience: Through advanced questioning, listening and summarising negotiate mutually beneficial outcomes
- Providing a positive customer experience: Manage challenging and complicated situations within your level of authority and make recommendations to enable and deliver change to service or strategy
- Providing a positive customer experience: Use clear explanations, provide options and solutions to influence and help customers make choices and agree next steps
- Providing a positive customer experience: Explore and interpret the customer experience to inform and influence achieving a positive result for customer satisfaction
- Providing a positive customer experience: Demonstrate a cost conscious mind-set when meeting customer and the business needs
- Providing a positive customer experience: Identifying where highs and lows of the customer journey produce a range of emotions in the customer
- Providing a positive customer experience: Use written and verbal communication to simplify and provide complex information in a way that supports positive customer outcome in the relevant format
- Working with customers/customer insights: Proactively gather customer feedback, through a variety of methods. Critically analyse, and evaluate the meaning, implication and facts and act upon it
- Working with customers/customer insights: Analyse your customer types, to identify or anticipate their potential needs and expectations when providing your service
- Customer Service performance: Maintain a positive relationship even when you are unable to deliver the customer’s expected outcome
- Customer Service performance: When managing referrals or escalations take into account historical interactions and challenges to determine next steps
- Service Improvement: Analyse the end to end service experience, seeking input from others where required, supporting development of solutions
- Service Improvement: Make recommendations based on your findings to enable improvement
- Service Improvement: Make recommendations and implement where possible, changes in line with new and relevant legislation, regulations and industry best practice
Training schedule
Level 3 Customer Service Specialist apprenticeship standard, which includes:
Level 2 Functional Skills in maths and English (if required)
Full, on-the-job training will be provided by the employer, with 20% off the job training as a requirement
End-Point Assessment (EPA)
This apprenticeship is delivered in the workplace and 20% of your working time will be dedicated towards training and learning new skills.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- IT (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Knowledge of Microsoft Package
- Flexible
- Good attendance record
Other requirements
Check bus routes for travel on a daily basis
This is 100% office based
About this employer
We begin by taking time to understand your business and objectives, then adapt our services to match. This allows us to develop strong, long-term relationships with our customers that ensure the right services are in place, at the right time. Every time. Add to this a friendly, experienced team, a willingness to overcome any challenge, and continuous investment in training and technology, and it’s easy to see why businesses already trust their facility services to us.
After this apprenticeship
- An apprenticeship allows you to earn a wage, gain valuable work experience and industry specific competence
- Potential for full time employment on successful completion of the apprenticeship
- Transferable skills that are invaluable in the wider world of work
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
C.M.S. VOCATIONAL TRAINING LIMITED
Mandy Hodson
mandy@cmsvoc.co.uk
01924 614523
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000036208.
Apply now
Closes in 15 days (Tuesday 30 June 2026 at 11:59pm)