Ascentis · RQF Level 2
Ascentis Level 2 Diploma in Customer Service
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits45
- Guided learning245 hours
- Units in this qualification38
Awarded by Ascentis · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Ascentis 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 skillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to buddy a colleague
- Plan to buddy a colleague
- Support a buddy colleague carrying out work activities
Carry out customer service handoversReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the customer service handover process
- Plan customer service handovers
- Carry out customer service handovers
Carry out direct sales activities in a contact centreReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Gather information needed for direct sales activities in a contact centre environment
- Carry out direct sales to customers through a contact centre, adhering to organisational procedures
- Keep accurate and up-to-date direct sales records within a contact centre, in accordance with data protection requirements
- Comply with relevant regulations and legislation during direct sales activities in a contact centre
- Understand how to conduct sales activities effectively and ethically in a contact centre environment
Communicate verbally with customersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to communicate verbally with customers
- Use customer service language to communicate with customers
Communicate with customers in writingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to communicate with customers in writing
- Plan written communications to customers
- Communicate with customers in writing
Contribute to the organisation of an eventReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand event organisation
- Carry out pre-event actions
- Set up an event
- Carry out post-event actions
Deal with incidents through a contact centreReal unit · Ascentis
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 · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to deal with incoming customer calls
- Establish the purpose of incoming customer calls
- Deal with customer questions and requests
Deliver customer serviceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand customer service delivery
- Understand the relationship between customer service and a brand
- Prepare to deal with customers
- Provide customer service
- Support improvements to customer service delivery
Deliver customer service to challenging customersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the delivery of customer service to challenging customers
- Deal with challenging customers
Deliver customer service whilst working on customers’ premisesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to deliver customer service whilst working on customers’ premises
- Deliver customer service whilst working on customers’ premises
Develop customer relationshipsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop customer relationships
- Develop relationships with customers
Develop working relationships with colleaguesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of effective team working
- Maintain effective working relationships with colleagues
- Collabourate with colleagues to resolve problems
Employee rights and responsibilitiesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of organisations and industries
- Understand employers’ expectations and employees’ rights and obligations
Exceed customer expectationsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to exceed customer expectations
- Exceed customer expectations
Gather, analyse and interpret customer feedbackReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to gather, analyse and interpret customer feedback
- Plan the collection of customer feedback on customer service issues
- Gather customer feedback
- Analyse and interpret customer feedback to recommend improvements
Handling objections and closing salesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to handle sales objections effectively, using techniques to address concerns and build customer confidence.
- Understand how to close the sale, employing appropriate closing techniques to secure a commitment from the customer.
- Handle objections from customers in a professional and persuasive manner.
- Close the sale effectively, achieving a positive outcome for both the customer and the organisation.
Health and Safety Procedures in the WorkplaceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know health and safety procedures in the workplace.
- Carry out tasks with regard to health and safety in the workplace.
Make telephone calls to customersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to make telephone calls to customers
- Plan telephone calls to customers
- Make telephone calls to customers
Manage diary systemsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the management of diary systems
- Manage diary systems
Manage personal performance and developmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Manage personal performance
- Manage their own time and workload
- Identify their own development needs
- Fulfil a personal development plan
Meeting customers’ after sales needsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate customer after sales needs, identifying their requirements and expectations following a purchase.
- Handle customers’ after sales needs, providing appropriate support, information, and solutions to address their concerns.
- Review the after sales process, evaluating its effectiveness and identifying areas for improvement.
Negotiate in a business environmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning negotiation
- Prepare for business negotiations
- Carry out business negotiations
Principles of customer serviceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand customer service
- Understand how legal and ethical requirements relate to customer service
- Understand how to deliver effective customer service
- Understand the management of customer service information
Principles of equality and diversity in the workplaceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the implications of equality legislation
- Understand organisational standards and expectations for equality and diversity and context in the workplace
Process information about customersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to process customer information
- Process customer information
Processing sales ordersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to process sales orders accurately and efficiently, and how to follow up on their progress
- Process sales orders in line with organisational procedures and customer requirements
- Follow up on sales order processing to ensure customer satisfaction and resolve any issues
Promote additional products and/or services to customersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the promotion of additional products and/or services to customers
- Promote additional products and/or services to customers
Provide post-transaction customer serviceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand post-transaction customer service
- Provide post-transaction customer service
Provide reception servicesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand reception services
- Provide a reception service
Resolve customer service problemsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the resolution of customer service problems
- Resolve customer service problems
- Manage unresolved customer service problems
Resolve customers’ complaintsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the monitoring and resolution of customers’ complaints
- Deal with customers’ complaints
Support customer service improvementsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to support customer service improvements
- Identify the potential for improvements to customer service
- Support the implementation of improvements to customer service
Support customers through real-time online customer serviceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to support customers through real-time online customer service
- Establish the customer service support needed by customers
- Support online customer service in real-time
Support customers using self-service equipmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to support customers using self-service equipment
- Identify the help needed by customers using self-service equipment
- Help customers to use self-service equipment
Understand customersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different types of customers
- Understand the value of customers and their loyalty
Understand employer organisationsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand organisational structures
- Understand the organisational environment
Use social media to deliver customer serviceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand social media in a business environment
- Deal with customers using social media
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.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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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.
- Deliver customer service within specified requirements
- Deliver products and services to customers
- Gather, analyse and interpret customer feedback
Where this can lead
Customer Feedback Analyst
Your journey here is really what you make of it. We'll give you the tools and the opportunities, but your curiosity and drive will ultimately shape where you go. The customer's voice is only getting louder, and understanding it will always be a critical skill.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 36 job records mapped to this qualification.
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 Ascentis Level 2 Diploma in Customer Service
38 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Ascentis.
- Buddy a colleague to develop their skills
- Carry out customer service handovers
- Carry out direct sales activities in a contact centre
- Communicate verbally with customers
- Communicate with customers in writing
- Contribute to the organisation of an event
and 32 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
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
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.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.