Pharmacy Apprenticeships & Qualifications

About Pharmacy

Are you a people person? Are you interested in helping people to stay healthy, safe and well? Are you interested in medicine or science and helping others? If so, a pharmacy career could be for you.

Our pharmacy apprenticeships will help you to gain a UK recognised qualification while earning a wage and getting on-the-job experience.

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Level 2 Pharmacy Services Assistant Apprenticeship

** AVAILABLE SPRING 2021**

Overview

The Level 2 Pharmacy Services Assistant Apprenticeship Standard will give you all the skills and knowledge needed to be a dispensing/pharmacy assistant.

You’ll learn the following:

Unit 1 Person Centred Care and Communication
Unit 2 Principles of Health and Safety for Pharmacy Support Staff
Unit 3 Effective Teamwork within Pharmacy Services
Unit 4 Personal Development for Pharmacy Support Staff
Unit 5 Dispensing and Supply of Prescribed Medicines and Products
Unit 6 Managing Pharmaceutical Stock

If you don’t already have a Grade 4 in English and maths, you’ll need to achieve these during the programme.

Level 3 Pharmacy Technician (Integrated Apprenticeship)

Overview

This is for people who are working as a pre-registration trainee pharmacy technician.

This two-year course will see you train under the direction of an Educational Supervisor, which might be a registered pharmacist or pharmacy technician, for a minimum of 30 hours per week.

Pharmacy Technicians work in a wide range of settings, including hospitals, registered pharmacies, the Prison Service, GP practices, care homes and the Armed Services.

They manage medicines and devices in a pharmacy and help pharmacists with advisory services. What they do will depends on where they work but usually includes:

giving safe and effective pharmacy services
giving medicines and devices to patients
providing information to patients and other healthcare professionals
managing areas of medicine supply such as dispensaries
supervising other pharmacy staff
answering customer questions
pre-packing, assembling and labelling medicines.

With this qualification, you’ll gain

the skills, knowledge and behaviours for this role
a range of skills to help you to progress into further study or progress in your career
a Level 3 qualification, accredited by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
You’ll also register with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a pharmacy technician which will allow you to practice as a pharmacy technician in England and Wales.

Entry Requirements

For Level 3 you must have a minimum of four GCSEs Grade 4 - 9 (or equivalent) which must include maths, English and two sciences (one of which must include Chemistry)