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Apprentice Pharmacy Technician
Location
West Yorkshire (WF1 3SP)
Closing Date
Thursday 8 October 2026
Wage
£25,760 a year
Hours
37.5 hours per week
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for individuals who are looking to start a career within Pharmacy. This post will be based at Fieldhead Hospital in Wakefield but will involve visits to other trust sites in Barnsley, Dewsbury, Halifax, and Huddersfield. This role is full time 37.5 hours per week.
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Process stock orders for deliveries to wards
- Dispense clinically validated prescriptions
- Perform 3 way checks
- Stock rotation
- Assist in ordering of new medications
- Customer Service
- Completing documentation
- Disposal of waste medication
- Reception duties
- Work closely with Senior Pharmacy Assistant and Pharmacist
- Process Invoices and support with procurement of medicines
- Promote professional image of pharmacy
Where you'll work Fieldhead Hospital Ouchthorpe Lane Wakefield West Yorkshire WF1 3SP
Training
Training provider SHEFFIELD COLLEGE, THE
Training course Pharmacy technician (integrated) (level 3)
What you'll learn
- Recognise and work within their scope of practice and skills
- Use relevant data and information to make effective decisions
- Accurately retrieve and reconcile information about a person’s medicines
- Accurately assemble prescribed items
- Issue prescribed items safely and effectively and take action to deal with discrepancies
- Carry out an accuracy check of dispensed medicines and products
- Accurately perform pharmaceutical calculations to ensure the safety of people
- Apply the principles of clinical governance and ensure person’s confidentiality
- Assess a person’s present supply of medicines and order appropriate medicines and products
- Receive requests for medicines, including prescriptions, and check for their validity, safety, and clarity, taking action to deal with any problems with the person directly
- Demonstrate operational skills within their scope of practice
- Provide a safe, effective, and responsive pharmacy service
- Take personal responsibility for the legal, safe, and efficient supply of medicines
- Apply the principles of governance to pharmacy operational processes
- Ensure the confidentiality of patient data
- Communicate and work effectively with members of the multidisciplinary team
- Explain the impact of audit and evaluation on the quality of pharmacy operations and services
- Engage others in the improvement of processes and systems
- Effectively use systems to support the safe and effective management and supply of medicines
- Listen to a person, understand their needs, and interpret what matters to them
- Give the person all relevant information and advice in a way they can understand, so they can make informed decisions about their health and wellbeing
- Optimise a person’s medicines to achieve the best possible outcomes
- Obtain relevant information from people – including patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals – and use it to optimise care appropriately
- Adapt information and communication to meet the needs of particular audiences
- Check and review their own and others work effectively
- Suggest and implement personal goals and methods of improvement
- Maintain CPD outcomes that meet with regulatory requirements
- Identify and respond effectively to errors and near misses
- Ensure effective safeguards are in place particularly for children and vulnerable adults
- Prioritise time and resources effectively to achieve local and national objectives
- Respond to medical emergencies
- Ensure that health and safety controls are embedded and working
- Effectively supervise other members of the team
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Training schedule This is a full-time post and includes day release for college, via a blended learning approach, during term time. In addition, allocated study time is provided in the workplace. The successful candidate will become part of a friendly and professional Pharmacy Team, supporting different specialties in acute mental health, forensic, and rehabilitation settings.
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Requirements
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in: English (grade 4)
- Mathematics (grade 4)
- Science (grade 4)
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
- DBS will be carried out
- Driving Licence not essential but would be preferred
About this employer
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is built upon the talent and passion that is seen throughout our teams. We live and breathe our values. They underpin all our work and give purpose to the team so we know what’s expected of us and just how valuable our work is to the community. Associated with our values are our mission, our vision, and our behaviours. All four weave through our daily remit and unite everybody in one common goal. We encourage, welcome, and support inclusivity in our workforce and the way we provide services as an employer. All our services respect and value difference.
Company benefits
- Blue Light Card
- Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions. You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.
On successful completion of their first year, the successful candidate will provide a pharmacy service to the ward environment. Full training and support will be given.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
- South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Jenny Richmond
- jenny.richmond@swyt.nhs.uk
- 07500817517
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000056008.
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