Customer Service Level 2 Apprenticeship inSheffield inSheffield PUBLISHED 1 OCT 2024
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust as a Customer Service Level 2 Apprentice
You will be a compassionate, accountable individual who treats all colleagues, patients and service users with respect and seeks to deliver excellence in their role. You will share the Trust values and be committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Would you like a Career in Customer Service with an emphasis on Business Administration and be part of the NHS Administration and Clerical Services?
If so, we are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join us at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust across all service sites.
This is a fantastic opportunity for individuals who want to begin their career in Customer Service and Business Administration, gain a Level 2 Customer Service Practitioner Award and learn a variety of customer service & administration skills.
Our Apprenticeship programme provides exciting future pathways into career areas:
- Corporate services that can lead to a variety of career routes - across all departments
- Patient facing services that will lead onto a breath of career routes - Receptionists, Medical secretary support, and general administration roles in a variety of department
Beginning in February 2025, these positions will be based in various departments across the Trust.
- Be part of a team and will be contributing to the smooth running of Trust patient services.
- Using different methods of communication to interact with new and existing customers ie families, staff, public, both internally and externally.
- Learn how to develop IT skills, deal with sensitive and confidential information, handle telephone calls and increase your communication skills with a variety of professionals and service users.
For more information on the main responsibilities for this post, please refer to the job description and person specification.
To find out more about these opportunities, come along to our virtual open day, get to meet existing candidates and chat to Department Managers, the date for this session is:
Tuesday 19th November @2pm
For the meeting links to this event, please contact
Closing date for applications:
Thursday 5th December
Shortlisting:
Tuesday 10th December
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 16th & Wednesday 17th December.
Essential Criteria
Due to UK apprenticeship funding regulations applicants must have a right to work in the UK, or for EU citizens hold pre-settled or settled status and have been a UK or EU resident for the last three years or have indefinite leave to remain with documents that are not due to expire during the duration of the apprenticeship contract. Applicants must also not already have a qualification at a higher level within the same subject matter.
Inclusive Recruitment & Selection
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.
We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager:
We are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Childrens being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert at
Trust Values
The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:
- Compassion leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
- Accountability striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
- Respect value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
- Excellence delivering a high-quality standard of care
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust as a Customer Service Level 2 Apprentice
You will be a compassionate, accountable individual who treats all colleagues, patients and service users with respect and seeks to deliver excellence in their role. You will share the Trust values and be committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Would you like a Career in Customer Service with an emphasis on Business Administration and be part of the NHS Administration and Clerical Services?
If so, we are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join us at Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust across all service sites.
This is a fantastic opportunity for individuals who want to begin their career in Customer Service and Business Administration, gain a Level 2 Customer Service Practitioner Award and learn a variety of customer service & administration skills.
Our Apprenticeship programme provides exciting future pathways into career areas:
- Corporate services that can lead to a variety of career routes - across all departments
- Patient facing services that will lead onto a breath of career routes - Receptionists, Medical secretary support, and general administration roles in a variety of department
Beginning in February 2025, these positions will be based in various departments across the Trust.
- Be part of a team and will be contributing to the smooth running of Trust patient services.
- Using different methods of communication to interact with new and existing customers ie families, staff, public, both internally and externally.
- Learn how to develop IT skills, deal with sensitive and confidential information, handle telephone calls and increase your communication skills with a variety of professionals and service users.
About us
For more information on the main responsibilities for this post, please refer to the job description and person specification.
To find out more about these opportunities, come along to our virtual open day, get to meet existing candidates and chat to Department Managers, the date for this session is:
Tuesday 19th November @2pm
For the meeting links to this event, please contact
Closing date for applications:
Thursday 5th December
Shortlisting:
Tuesday 10th December
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 16th & Wednesday 17th December.
Essential Criteria
Due to UK apprenticeship funding regulations applicants must have a right to work in the UK, or for EU citizens hold pre-settled or settled status and have been a UK or EU resident for the last three years or have indefinite leave to remain with documents that are not due to expire during the duration of the apprenticeship contract. Applicants must also not already have a qualification at a higher level within the same subject matter.
Inclusive Recruitment & Selection
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.
We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager:
We are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Childrens being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert at
Trust Values
The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:
- Compassion leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
- Accountability striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
- Respect value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
- Excellence delivering a high-quality standard of care
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