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About the vacancy

As a Customer Care & Administration Apprentice you will be working with our experienced customer care team to provide excellent service to residents of our new homes. Working within our Salford office you will play a key role in the growth of our business, ensuring high satisfaction with our clients.

  • Champion the customer throughout the business and be the first elevated point of contact for our clients, their customer care teams and their individual tenants
  • Work with our clients at the point of handovers to be available to show their neighbourhood teams how features in the homework, and aid their tenants where this is required
  • Receive and log defects within our Development Management System
  • Assign defects to in-house teams and subcontract teams, arranging appointments with tenants for these to be completed
  • Keep tenants informed about upcoming appointments and liaise with tenants following completion of works to ensure total satisfaction in works complete
  • Monitor KPI performance against specific contract requirements
  • Undertake day to day call handling, answering inbound phone calls and direct around the team
  • Work with Customer Care Manager to assign work to Customer Care Operatives and manage their work routes

You will receive the following training:

Customer Service Practitioner Level 2.


 

What skills are we looking for?

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Team working
  • Patience

Qualifications

  • Essential : English (GCSE - 4)
  • Essential : Maths (GCSE - 4)

Outcome

Following completion of this apprenticeship you will be offered a Customer Care role.

The starting salary is £16,500 a year for 39 hours Monday to Thursday 8am to 5pm, Friday 8am to 4pm..

The apprenticeship will run for 1 Year, starting on Monday, May 12 2025. Applications close on Wednesday, April 30 2025.

About the employer

Watson are a family business, delivering affordable housing along with private sale and build to rent developments across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and High Peak.

We are based at 208-210 GREAT CLOWES STREET, SALFORD, M7 2ZS

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