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Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship
As a pharmacy technician you will support the safe, effective, and lawful supply of medicines while working closely with Pharmacists and the wider health care team. This role is ideal for someone looking to progress within pharmacy and develop their skills and knowledge needed to become a registered Pharmacy Technician.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
- Dispensing, ordering, receiving, and supplying medication
- Supporting day-to-day running of the pharmacy, including business processes
- Supporting pharmacy staff maintaining high standards through auditing, evaluating services, and responding to feedback
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
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 and 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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With experience, you can:
- Become a departmental supervisor or manager
- Move into a specialist area like Oncology, Paediatrics, or Clinical Trials
- Take on a specialist role like a Clinical Pharmacy Technician, working with healthcare professionals and patients in hospital wards
- Possibly go into research and development
- Work or move into pharmaceutical production, sales, or marketing
- Become a pharmacy tutor working with Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technicians (PTPT)
- Become a branch manager of a community pharmacy or launch a variety of services.
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