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Start your career in pharmacy with this exciting apprenticeship. You'll gain hands-on experience supporting the safe supply of medicines, helping patients, and working with healthcare professionals, while working towards a recognised qualification and a rewarding future as a Pharmacy Technician in a supportive team.
What you'll do at work
- Support the safe ordering, receiving, storage and supply of medicines and pharmaceutical products
- Assemble, dispense and issue prescribed items accurately
- Check prescriptions for validity, safety and clarity, escalating concerns where needed
- Carry out pharmaceutical calculations to support safe medicine supply
- Maintain accurate records and follow pharmacy procedures and confidentiality requirements
- Provide clear, person-centred advice to patients, carers and healthcare professionals
- Support patients to use their medicines safely and effectively
- Work as part of the pharmacy and wider healthcare team
- Help with day-to-day pharmacy operations, stock control and workflow
- Follow health and safety, safeguarding and governance procedures
- Report errors, near misses and concerns in line with local procedures
- Support audit, quality improvement and service development activity
- Communicate professionally with colleagues, patients and other healthcare professionals
- Take responsibility for your own learning and development
- Respond appropriately to medical emergencies when required
Where you'll work
854 Stratford Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham, B11 4BS
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BIRMINGHAM METROPOLITAN COLLEGE
Training course
Pharmacy technician (integrated) (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- 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
Laser Pharmacy will provide full training for the Level 3 Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship. Apprentices will learn how to support the safe and effective running of the pharmacy, including dispensing medicines, helping patients, managing stock and following pharmacy procedures. They will develop practical skills in customer service, communication and teamwork through a blend of on-the-job and off-the-job training, with the aim of becoming a qualified Pharmacy Technician.
Off-the-job training will be delivered through a day-release model, with the apprentice attending Matthew Boulton College in Birmingham one day per week.
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- Maths (grade 4/C or above)
- English (grade 4/C or above)
- Science (grade 4/C or above)
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Skills
- Administrative skills
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Customer care skills
- Initiative
- Logical
- Number skills
- Organisation skills
- Patience
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
Other requirements
Please ensure that you have researched your travel arrangements and are happy with the time it will take, and distance required to travel, BEFORE you apply for this vacancy.
Laser Pharmacy and Travel Clinic is a community-focused healthcare provider offering a wide range of NHS and private pharmacy services. The team is committed to delivering high-quality patient care, supporting the health and wellbeing of the local community through expert advice, prescription services, health checks, vaccinations and travel health consultations. In addition to dispensing medicines, the pharmacy provides specialist travel vaccinations, health screening services and personalised healthcare advice in a friendly and professional environment. By combining excellent customer service with clinical expertise, Laser Pharmacy and Travel Clinic aims to make healthcare accessible, convenient and tailored to the needs of every patient. An apprenticeship with Laser Pharmacy and Travel Clinic offers the opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience within a busy healthcare setting while working alongside experienced pharmacy professionals. Apprentices will develop practical skills in customer service, communication, medicines management and pharmacy operations, while working towards an industry-recognised qualification. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to begin a rewarding career in the pharmacy and healthcare sector, making a positive difference to the local community every day.
https://www.mylocaltravelclinic.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
After completing the Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship, apprentices can register as a qualified Pharmacy Technician and progress into roles in community, hospital or primary care pharmacy. With experience, they may move into senior technician, team leader, accuracy checking technician or specialist support roles, or continue their development through further training in pharmacy or healthcare.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BIRMINGHAM METROPOLITAN COLLEGE
BMet Recruitment
recruitment@bmet.ac.uk
0121 362 1122
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000045543.
Closes in 8 days (Wednesday 19 August 2026 at 11:59pm)
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