ProQual Awarding Body · RQF Level 2

ProQual Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Contact Centre Operations (QCF)

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 2
  • Total credits28
  • Units in this qualification24

Awarded by ProQual Awarding Body · on the Ofqual register

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

These are the units ProQual Awarding Body 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 · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit covers the process of carrying out direct sales activities in a contact centre. You'll learn to gather necessary information, engage customers using suitable communication methods, maintain accurate sales records, and comply with relevant regulations and legislation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Gather information needed for direct sales activities in a contact centre
  • Carry out direct sales to customers through a contact centre
  • Keep direct sales records within a contact centre
  • Comply with regulations and legislation during direct sales in a contact centre
  • Understand how to conduct sales activities in a contact centre
Communicate information to customers in different but familiar contexts through a contact centreReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body

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 incoming telephone calls from customersReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit equips learners with skills to handle customer objections and close sales effectively. It covers identifying common objections, employing active listening, applying strategies to address concerns, and using various closing techniques to secure customer commitment.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand effective strategies for handling sales objections from customers
  • Understand different techniques for successfully closing a sale
  • Handle objections from customers in a professional and persuasive manner
  • Close sales effectively, securing customer commitment
Improve personal effectiveness at work in a contact centreReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body
You'll learn to input and access sales or marketing data accurately within information systems. The unit covers data accuracy, security measures, and the use of databases and CRM systems to support sales and marketing activities.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to input and access sales or marketing data in information systems, ensuring data accuracy and security.
  • Understand the use of sales or marketing information sources and systems, including databases, CRM systems, and market research tools.
  • Input data accurately into databases to support sales or marketing activities, adhering to organisational procedures.
  • Use databases effectively to access and analyse sales or marketing data, generating reports and insights to inform decision-making.
Maintain customer service through effective handoverReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body

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 · ProQual Awarding Body
You'll understand and apply time management strategies relevant to a sales role. The unit focuses on prioritising tasks, planning personal time effectively, and evaluating time management to enhance productivity and reduce time-wasting activities.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand effective strategies for managing and prioritising time effectively in a sales role.
  • Plan and organise own time effectively to maximise productivity in a sales role.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of own time planning and identify areas for improvement in a sales role.
Use systems and technology during customer contact in a contact centreReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

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.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

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.

Buddy a colleague to develop their customer service skillsCarry out direct sales activities in a contact centreCommunicate information to customers in different but familiar contexts through a contact centreComply with health and safety procedures in a contact centreDeal with customers using bespoke softwareDeal with incoming telephone calls from customersDeliver customer service through a contact centreDeliver customer service to difficult customers

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

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Where this connects

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.

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ProQual Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Contact Centre Operations (QCF)
  • Deal with customer requirements using a range of contact methods
  • Deliver Excellent Customer Service Using Bespoke Software
  • Develop Your Own Customer Service Skills
  • Effectively Manage Difficult Customers & Resolve Issues
  • Expand Offerings: Enhance Customer Satisfaction & Sales
  • Give customers a positive impression of yourself and your organisation
  • Maintain customer service through handover procedures
  • Process complaints involving informal resolution
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

Where this can lead

Compliance & Safety Coordinator

Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We'll provide the opportunities and support, and you bring the drive and curiosity. There's a clear path to becoming a true expert in compliance and safety, making a real difference to people's lives and our business.

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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.

Deal with customer requirements using a range of contact methodsDeliver Excellent Customer Service Using Bespoke SoftwareDevelop Your Own Customer Service SkillsEffectively Manage Difficult Customers & Resolve IssuesExpand Offerings: Enhance Customer Satisfaction & SalesGive customers a positive impression of yourself and your organisationGive customers a positive impression of yourself and your organisationMaintain customer service through handover proceduresProcess complaints involving informal resolutionProcess information about customersResolve Customer Service ProblemsSolve problems for telephone callers in the utilities sectorTrack customer problems in a music publishing environmentUse contact centre systems and technologies to handle customer contacts

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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Buddy a colleague to develop their customer service skillsLevel 2

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How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for ProQual Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Contact Centre Operations (QCF)

24 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ProQual Awarding Body.

  1. Buddy a colleague to develop their customer service skills
  2. Carry out direct sales activities in a contact centre
  3. Communicate information to customers in different but familiar contexts through a contact centre
  4. Comply with health and safety procedures in a contact centre
  5. Deal with customers using bespoke software
  6. Deal with incoming telephone calls from customers

and 18 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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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