B&Q Customer Advisor Apprenticeship

Summary

Join our team, and you'll become an expert advisor. An inspiration as well as a guide. The person who gets to know every customer and their home improvement projects. Sales will be important, of course, as will things like managing stock, setting up displays, and making sure your store looks great. 

Wage

£16,344 a year

Training course

Customer service practitioner (level 2)

Hours

Shift work including weekends, bank holidays and late evenings, 7am - 10pm. Exact shifts TBC.

24 hours a week

Start date

Monday 23 November 2026

Duration

1 year 3 months

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

As part of a great team, you'll be valued for who you are. We're committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities.

Daily roles and responsibilities will include:

• Actively approach your customers, engaging with them naturally
• Understand customer needs and provide appropriate solutions
• Work with colleagues across the store to help and support them
• Turn negative customer situations into positive outcomes
• Encourage customer feedback, share it with managers and use it to improve service
• Utilise all available tools and systems to maximise sales
• Have a full understanding of the processes relevant to your role and store
• Take personal responsibility for operating in a safe and legally compliant way
• Adhere to all policies & procedures relevant to your role
• You may be required to undertake other duties from time to time as we may reasonably require

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 £13.10
• An award-winning pension scheme
• ShareSave options
• 6.6 weeks holiday
• Employee Assistant Programme
• Shopping discounts
• Colleague wellbeing benefits

As a Customer Advisor, you will be working towards the Level 2 Customer Service Practitioner Level 2, alongside your daily roles and responsiblities.

Where you'll work

London Road
CA1 2PD

Training

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

Training provider

LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED

Training course

Customer service practitioner (level 2)

What you'll learn

Course contents

• Use a range of questioning skills, including listening and responding in a way that builds rapport, determines customer needs and expectations and achieves positive engagement and delivery.
• Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication skills, along with summarising language during face-to-face communications; and/or
• Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate communication skills, along with reinforcement techniques (to confirm understanding) during non-facing customer interactions.
• Depending on your job role and work environment: Use an appropriate ‘tone of voice’ in all communications, including written and digital, that reflect the organisation’s brand.
• Provide clear explanations and offer options in order to help customers make choices that are mutually beneficial to both the customer and your organisation.
• Be able to organise yourself, prioritise your own workload/activity and work to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate patience and calmness.
• Show you understand the customer’s point of view.
• Use appropriate sign-posting or resolution to meet your customers needs and manage expectations.
• Maintain informative communication during service recovery.

Training schedule

Customer Service Practitioner Apprenticeship Level 2 including Functional Skills in maths and English.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

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None required (grade None required)

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

Skills

• Team Working
• Organisation Skills