NCFE · RQF Level 2
NCFE Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Contact Centre Operations
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits28
- Guided learning93 hours
- Units in this qualification25
Awarded by NCFE · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units NCFE registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Buddy a colleague to develop their customer service skillsReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and prepare to buddy a colleague
- Support their buddy colleague on the job
- Provide buddy support off the job
- Understand how to buddy a colleague to develop their customer service skills
Carry out direct sales activities in a contact centreReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Gather information needed to effectively carry out direct sales activities within a contact centre environment.
- Carry out direct sales activities to customers through the contact centre, adhering to organisational procedures.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of direct sales activities within the contact centre, in accordance with data protection requirements.
- Comply with all relevant regulations and legislation when conducting direct sales activities in a contact centre.
- Understand the processes and techniques involved in conducting sales activities within a contact centre environment.
Communicate information to customers in different but familiar contexts through a contact centreReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Talk to customers on familiar subjects in a contact centre
- Communicate in writing on familiar subjects in a contact centre
- Understand the requirements of customer communication in a contact centre
Comply with health and safety procedures in a contact centreReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Comply with organisational health and safety procedures in a contact centre
- Minimise health and safety risks relating to the job role in a contact centre
- Understand the principles of health and safety in a contact centre
Deal with customers using bespoke softwareReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to deliver customer service using bespoke software
- Deliver customer service using bespoke software
- Understand how to deal with customers using bespoke software
Deal with incidents through a contact centreReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Deal with incidents through a contact centre
- Use contact centre communications systems to deploy incident management resources
- Understand how to deal with incidents in a contact centre
Deal with incoming telephone calls from customersReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Use communication systems effectively
- Establish rapport with customers who are calling
- Deal effectively with customer questions and requests
- Deal with incoming telephone calls from customers
Deliver customer service through a contact centreReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Establish rapport with customers in a contact centre
- Support customer service delivery through a contact centre
- Deliver customer service in a contact centre
- Understand customer service in contact centres
Deliver customer service to difficult customersReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise when customers may be difficult to deal with
- Deal with difficult customers
- Understand how to deliver customer service to difficult customers
Develop your own customer service skills through self-studyReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Find ways to learn more about customer service and their job
- Use sources of self-development to extend their customer service skills and knowledge
- Develop their own customer service skills through self-study
Follow the rules to deliver customer serviceReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Follow their organisation’s customer service practices and procedures
- Follow the rules to deliver customer service
Give customers a positive impression of yourself and your organisation.Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Establish rapport with customers
- Respond appropriately to customers
- Communicate information to customers
- Understand how to give customers a positive impression of themselves and the organisation
Handling objections and closing salesReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand effective techniques for handling sales objections from potential customers.
- Understand the strategies and methods for successfully closing a sale with a customer.
- Handle objections raised by customers during the sales process in a professional and persuasive manner.
- Close sales effectively by using appropriate closing techniques and addressing customer concerns.
Improve personal effectiveness at work in a contact centreReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Assess personal effectiveness in a contact centre
- Carry out development activities to improve personal effectiveness in a contact centre
- Work with others in a contact centre team to improve personal performance
- Understand how to improve personal effectiveness in a contact centre
Inputting and accessing sales or marketing data in information systemsReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to input and access sales or marketing data accurately and efficiently in information systems
- Understand the use of sales or marketing information sources and systems for effective decision-making
- Input and use databases effectively to support sales or marketing activities
Maintain customer service through effective handoverReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Agree joint responsibilities in a customer service team
- Check that customer service actions are seen through by working together with colleagues
- Understand how to maintain customer service through effective handover
Process customer service complaintsReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the signs that a query or problem is about to produce a complaint
- Deal with a complaint effectively
- Understand how to process customer service complaints
Process information about customersReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Collect information about customers
- Select and retrieve information about customers
- Supply information about customers
- Understand how to process customer service information
Promote additional services or products to customersReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Identify additional services or products that are available
- Inform customers about additional services or products
- Gain customer commitment to using additional services or products
- Understand how to promote additional services or products to customers
Provide support through a contact centre for specified products and/or servicesReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and validate customers’ identity in a contact centre
- Support customer needs for information and decisions about a range of products and/or services in a contact centre
- Understand how to support customers in a contact centre
Resolve customer service problemsReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Spot customer service problems
- Pick the best solution to resolve customer service problems
- Take action to resolve customer service problems
- Resolve customer service problems
Support customers and colleagues when providing contact centre servicesReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate information about products and/or services to customers in a contact centre
- Monitor compliance with organisational requirements for customer contacts
- Provide advice and support to colleagues in a contact centre
- Understand how to support colleagues and customers in a contact centre
Support customers using on-line customer servicesReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Establish the type and level of support their customer needs to achieve on-line customer service
- Support on-line customer service in conversation with their customer
- Understand how to support customers using on-line services
Time planning in salesReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage and prioritise time effectively in a sales role, including techniques for overcoming time constraints.
- Plan own time effectively in a sales role, including setting goals, scheduling activities, and managing interruptions.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of own time planning in a sales role, identifying areas for improvement and implementing changes.
Use systems and technology during customer contact in a contact centreReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Use features of systems and technology to handle customer contacts in a contact centre
- Report on customer and contact handling information using pre-defined formats
- Understand the uses of contact centre systems and technology
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Carry out sales activities in a contact centre
- Communicate Clearly: Write Effective Customer Communications
- Communicate with customers in writing and electronically
- Contribute to developing and maintaining positive caller relationships
- Contribute to developing and maintaining positive caller relationships in the utilities sector
- Deal with customers by telephone in a financial services environment
- Deal with customers face-to-face
- Deliver Excellent Customer Service Using Bespoke Software
Where this can lead
Associate Customer Support Specialist
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for NCFE Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Contact Centre Operations
25 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCFE.
- Buddy a colleague to develop their customer service skills
- Carry out direct sales activities in a contact centre
- Communicate information to customers in different but familiar contexts through a contact centre
- Comply with health and safety procedures in a contact centre
- Deal with customers using bespoke software
- Deal with incidents through a contact centre
and 19 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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