Customer Service Specialist Apprenticeship

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Customer Service Specialist
Apprenticeship Level 3

Customer Service Specialist Apprenticeship Level 3 Overview

The main purpose of a customer service specialist is to be a ‘professional’ for direct customer support within all sectors and organisation types. You are an advocate of Customer Service who acts as a referral point for dealing with more complex or technical customer requests, complaints, and queries. You are often an escalation point for complicated or ongoing customer problems. As an expert in your organisation’s products and/or services, you share knowledge with your wider team and colleagues. You gather and analyse data and customer information that influences change and improvements in service. Utilising both organisational and generic IT systems to carry out your role with an awareness of other digital technologies. This could be in many types of environments including contact centres, retail, webchat, service industry or any customer service point.

Details Of The Programme

This apprenticeship usually takes 15 months to complete during which you will participate in training, development and on-going review activities.

A Customer service specialists work could include;

Customer requests
Complaints and queries
Gather and analyse data and customer information
Share knowledge with wider team
Utilising digital technologies

This apprenticeship covers the professional behaviours, knowledge and skills that are required of a Customer Service Specialist. Some of these include:

Business knowledge and understanding
Customer journey knowledge
Knowing your customers and their needs
customer service culture and environment awareness
Providing positive customer experience
Working with your customers
Service improvement
Ownership / responsibility

The End Point Assessment Process

Assessment Gateway

After a minimum of 12 months on the programme, at the assessment gateway, your employer will make the decision that you are ready to undertake the endpoint assessment.
Before going forward for endpoint assessment, you must have:

Achieved Level 2 English, maths (if not held)
Met the set skills, knowledge and behaviours of the standard
Achieved 20% off the job requirement
Portfolio

End Point Assessment

Following successful completion of the Gateway, you will proceed to endpoint assessment (EPA).
The EPA is undertaken by an independent assessment organisation.
The End Point assessment components are:

Practical observation with Q&A
Work-based project supported by an interview
Professional discussion based on portfolio

All components of the endpoint assessment must be completed and an endpoint assessment grade will be determined by the endpoint assessor.