B&Q Showroom Advisor Apprentice

B & Q PLC

STAFFORDSHIRE (ST3 7TU)

Closes in 27 days (Tuesday 17 November 2026)

Posted on 20 October 2026

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Summary

Join B&Q as a Showroom Advisor and help customers bring their home improvement projects to life. You'll create designs, recommend products and services, and deliver excellent customer service. £14.10 per hour, 30 hours per week, permanent contract, with bonus opportunities, training, and career development.

• Wage:

  £12,480 to £19,827.60, depending on your age

  National Minimum Wage

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  Competitive salary (£14.10 per hour / £26,945 FTE) with individual bonuses up to £250 per quarter for hitting targets, plus additional team incentives and a £3,000 award for the highest performing 3–5% of colleagues

• Training course: Customer service specialist (level 3)
• Hours: 30 hours per week, on a shift pattern basis, Monday-Sunday 7:00am-8:00pm, exact shifts to be confirmed.

  30 hours a week

• Start date:

  Sunday 22 November 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

Showroom Advisor Full Time – 30 hours per week Permanent Contract Shifts available Monday - Sunday, 7.00am - 10.00pm Competitive salary (£14.10 per hour / £26,945 FTE) with individual bonuses up to £250 per quarter for hitting targets, plus additional team incentives and a £3,000 award for the highest performing 3–5% of colleagues B&Q Stoke-on-Trent - Meir Park B&Q is a British multinational DIY and home improvement retailing company. Originally founded in March 1969 by Richard Block and David Quayle, and are now a wholly owned subsidiary of Kingfisher PLC. Working Week – 30 hours per week, on a shift pattern basis, Monday-Sunday 7:00am-8:00pm, exact shifts to be confirmed. Wage – £14.10 per hour (£26,945 FTE) Desired Personal Qualities – The ability to role model the B&Q Behaviours – Be Brave, Make a Difference & Win Together Overview of Vacancy – Sales matter in this role, but your real focus will be the customer. You’ll ask questions and explore possibilities to recommend the right finance, products, and installation options. You’ll use software to produce inspirational designs that will bring customer projects to life. Coordinating multiple projects & supporting customers virtually and face to face, you’ll take our customers on a journey from inspirational ideas through to delivery, helping to make their dreams a reality. You’re great at using technology but more importantly you’ll have brilliant communication and relationship building skills as you’ll work closely with colleagues & installers to ensure we deliver the best service on every project. You’re motivated by targets and are confident in converting your designs into sales. You work well as part of a team and you’re a good problem-solver too, with a keen eye for design. And you’re flexible enough to work on a rota that includes weekends, evenings, and bank holidays. Desired Skills – Communication skills Team Working Problem Solving Working with customers Attention to detail Future Prospects – Ongoing training and development. The expected duration of this apprenticeship is 13 months, however you will join B&Q on a permanent contract. Benefits - We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a great range of benefits; UK Notional hourly rate £14.10 per hour.

Where you'll work

B&Q – Stoke-on-Trent - Meir Park
Whittle Road
Stoke-on-Trent
STAFFORDSHIRE
ST3 7TU

Training

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

Training provider

SCL EDUCATION & 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

The apprentice will receive full on-the-job training. off-the-job training will follow the time allocations outlined in the Occupational Standard
and a full wrap around service from SCL.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

• Maths (grade 4)
• English (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
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills

Other requirements

N/A.

About this employer

B&Q Stoke-on-Trent - Meir Park B&Q is a British multinational DIY and home improvement retailing company. Originally founded in March 1969 by Richard Block and David Quayle, and are now a wholly owned subsidiary of Kingfisher PLC.

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

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

The apprentice will be able to move onto the next level.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SCL EDUCATION & TRAINING LIMITED

Jo Gray

jo.gray@wearescl.co.uk

07586 195152

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000060066.

Apply now

Closes in 27 days (Tuesday 17 November 2026)

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