Customer Service Apprenticeship - Informatics
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Company: Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust
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Location: Tyne and Wear, NE3 3XT
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Type: Apprenticeship
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Salary: £15,600.00 per year
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Sector: Sales, marketing and procurement
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Ref: NAS-2000034768
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Application Deadline Date: 26/06/2026
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Start Date: 27/07/2026
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Positions Available: 1
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Working Week: Monday to Friday - working times to be confirmed upon appointment.
Brief Description
This is an exciting opportunity to work within a friendly and supportive team within the Informatics Department of Cumbria, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust. This apprenticeship provides excellent opportunities for personal and professional development & real business experience from day one.
Training to be Provided
- Customer Service Practitioner Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard
- Delivered within the workplace
Future Prospects
There is an opportunity for the right candidate to be trained with a view to employment should a suitable position become available.
Vacancy Detail
We are seeking an enthusiastic, proactive and motivated candidate, who can demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills, to work within a busy team.
This is an essential and demanding role, providing a courteous, friendly and professional service to staff, either via the telephone or in person.
Your exact duties will vary but you will need to show you can work with a team or member of staff to handle various tasks.
You will also provide support to others in the team & this sort of work requires a sense of responsibility, accuracy and attention to detail.
The aims of this programme are:
- For an individual to gain a nationally recognised qualification
- To enhance knowledge & understanding of working for a large NHS employer
- To gain recognition for competencies used in a workplace
- To develop and demonstrate the underpinning knowledge required in this role
- Providing recognition of prior learning for future learning (RPL)
- Provide a foundation for further development
Duties:
- Respond to queries raised by email
- Create and amend user accounts to allow users to access the Trusts core IT systems
- Liaise with external Trusts to allow users access to their IT systems
- Log calls received by the team (details of callers and their IT issues, in an IT-based system)
- Attempt to fix straightforward issues and solve IT problems
- Liaise with wider team to resolve more complex issues
- Track the progress of jobs, maintaining contact with the colleague that logged it
- As experience grows, work with Project Managers on the rollout of new systems and IT services
- Gain experience and support all the Trusts core IT systems
Other Information
All offers will be subject to satisfactory completion of an enhanced DBS check.