Customer Service Apprenticeship - Shefford

RGM Truck & Van Ltd

Unit 6 Shefford Hardwicke Farm (SG17 5NU)

Closes on Tuesday 11 August 2026

Posted on 7 July 2026

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Summary

RGM Truck & Van are looking for a new Vehicle Rental Front Desk Administrator Apprentice. You will be studying toward your Customer Service Specialist apprenticeship L3.

Wage

£18,785 a year

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Training course
Customer service specialist (level 3)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 08.00 - 17.30. Every other Saturday morning from 08.00 - 10.00.

42 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 18 August 2026

Duration

1 year

Positions available

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

and enthusiastic Vehicle Rental Front Desk Administrator Apprentice. Working alongside the Rental Manager within a small, supportive team, you will gain valuable experience in customer service, administration and vehicle rental operations.

 

This customer-facing role involves communicating with customers in person, over the telephone and via email, whilst supporting the day-to-day running of our vehicle hire department. Full training will be provided on our computerised rental management system, giving you the opportunity to develop the skills and knowledge needed for a successful career in customer service and administration.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Welcome customers professionally, both in person and over the telephone
  • Respond to customer enquiries via telephone and email
  • Process and manage vehicle hire bookings using the company rental system
  • Assist with scheduling vehicles for both short-term and long-term hire
  • Ensure hire vehicles are prepared, presented and ready for customers
  • Support the coordination of vehicle maintenance and servicing schedules
  • Carry out general administrative duties including data entry and record keeping
  • Maintain accurate customer and vehicle records
  • Work closely with the Rental Manager to ensure the smooth day-to-day operation of the rental department
  • Deliver excellent customer service at all times

We are looking for someone who is:

  • Friendly, approachable and professional
  • A confident communicator with excellent customer service skills
  • Organised and able to manage multiple tasks
  • Keen to learn and develop new skills
  • Computer literate (preferred but not essential as full training will be provided)
  • A driving licence is desirable but not essential

Where you'll work

Unit 6 Shefford Hardwicke Farm
SG17 5NU

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

BABINGTON BUSINESS COLLEGE 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

  • Founded in 1974, we've been delivering market-leading learning and talent solutions for over forty years
  • We’re privileged to help individuals unlock their potential and realise the value of their skills and talents. As one of the UK's largest and longest-established apprenticeship and training providers, we're proud to help organisations and individuals unlock their potential, and make skills really work for them
  • Upon completion of this 12 month Apprenticeship, you will have obtained your Customer Service Specialist apprenticeship Level 3 Apprenticeship

Requirements

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Administrative Skills
  • Customer Care Skills
  • IT Skills
  • Teamworking
  • Communication Skills

Other requirements

The closing date guidance, if a successful candidate is found before the advertised dates, the advert will close early.

About this employer

We are a small family run business and you will be working within a small team, assisting within our vehicle rental operation and daily duties. A, front desk, customer facing role, in person, via email and telephone. Managing customer bookings for our fleet of hire vehicles, maintenance, scheduling and vehicle presentation pre and post hire.

After this apprenticeship

Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).

  • There is a possibility of being offered a full time role after successful completion of the apprenticeship

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BABINGTON BUSINESS COLLEGE LIMITED

George Marsh

Apprentice.Recruitment@pgon.co.uk

07756 875243

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000041105.

Apply now

Closes on Tuesday 11 August 2026

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