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L3 Pharmacy Technician Apprentice
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An opportunity has arisen with Touchwood Pharmacy to undertake a Level 3 Pharmacy Technician (integrated) apprenticeship standard. Most of your apprenticeship will be spent working, gaining hands-on experience.
Requirements
- GCSE in English Language (grade 4)
- GCSE in Maths (grade 4)
- Share any other relevant qualifications and industry experience; the apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Responsibilities
- Taking in and handing out prescriptions
- Receiving and ordering stock
- Selling over-the-counter medicines
- Dispensing
- Advising patients about medications
- Undertaking final checks on prescriptions
- Recognise and work within your 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 your 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 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 your 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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- Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training
- Study to gain professional knowledge and skills
- Opportunity to progress to working as a pharmacy technician in a hospital, community pharmacy, air force, and pharmaceutical industries
- Specialisation opportunities in areas such as quality control, staff training, information technology, supplies procurement, clinical trials, or medicines information services
- Other roles may include managing a section of the pharmacy department
Application Process
- Training schedule includes Level 3 Pharmacy Technician (integrated) Apprenticeship Standard
- Functional Skills in maths and English, if required
- The successful candidate will be working in the community pharmacy close to their home and attending college one day a week
- The candidate will also be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council Level 3 qualification
- On and off-the-job training and location to be confirmed
About Touchwood Pharmacy
Our reputation is built on our commitment to prompt professional, personal service and attention to detail, which is reflected in the services we offer and the time we take to get to know our clientele and how to best service their needs.
Contact
INSPIRE MIDDLESEX COLLEGE LTD Andy Gill info@inspiremiddlesexcollege.org 073 9876 0786 Reference code: VAC2000005350
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