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We are looking for a friendly, reliable and motivated Pharmacy Assistant Apprentice to join a busy community pharmacy team.
This is a great opportunity to earn while you learn, gaining hands-on experience in a healthcare environment while working towards a recognised apprenticeship qualification.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Pharmacy Assistant Apprenticeship - Bicester
Here's the exciting bit…a great day includes:
- Work with the pharmacy team, helping and serving customers, giving appropriate advice on products, ensuring shelves are stocked and the counters is welcoming and attractive.
Duties will include:
- Understanding what the Superdrug Pharmacy customer wants
- Demonstrating exceptional customer service
- Understanding the business and maintaining the brand reputation
- Resolving customer queries
- Using knowledge to promote products to customers
- Adhering to all policies and procedures
Your training
Your training will take place in store, so no college days and no homework! At the end of your training period you will complete a discussion around your experiences, a multiple - choice test and an observation within your role. You will be supported throughout by your team and your assessor to achieve your Retail level 2 Apprenticeship.
What you’ll need to succeed:
- A passion for learning
- Be hard working and looking for variety and a fast paced working environment
- Want to develop new skills
- Be a real team player
- Have a strong work ethic and flexible approach
- Have an interest in retail pharmacy business
- Be ambitious and keen to progress
- Be committed to achieving your qualification
Success in this role will enable you to take your next step with us, as we have a strong desire to promote from within and reward the highest achievers.
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Here’s how you are rewarded:
- Up to 28 days holiday
- Up to 30% discount for you and a nominated friend or family member
- Excellent training
- Great sales incentives
- Get instant access to Wagestream. A tool that lets you track your earnings in real-time, access a percentage of your pay as you earn it, learn easy tips for managing your money and save straight from your pay into pots for the future.
- Enhanced company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support
Where you'll work
39 SHEEP STREET
OX26 6JJ
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
I & F LIMITED
Training course
Pharmacy services assistant (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Receive and log prescriptions
- Assemble prescribed items, undertake an in-process accuracy check and issue prescribed items
- Work according to legislative requirements, and organisational policies
- Order, receive, maintain and issue pharmaceutical stock
- Provide appropriate advice when authorised on supplied medicines and products, their storage and disposal
- Work within the parameters of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of the pharmacy
- Act in accordance with systems and organisational governance
- Recognise and act within the pharmacy regulatory, legal and ethical standards
- Support the team in the development of others
- Maintain and further develop your own skills and knowledge through development activities; maintain evidence of your personal development and actively prepare for and participate in appraisal
- Communicate effectively with the public, carers and other health and social care professionals using a range of techniques to determine their needs, and keep information confidential
- Handle information (record, report and store information) related to individuals and/or patients in line with local and national policies
- Use pharmacy IT systems and other IT resources according to legislative requirements and organisational policies
- Demonstrate person centred care and support within a pharmacy setting
- Make pharmacy patients and patient safety your first concern
- Use judgement and refer service user as appropriate to another member of the team, GP, healthcare worker, manufacturer etc
- Maintain the interests of patients and the health of the public
- Promote and advocate equality, diversity and inclusion
- Promote healthy lifestyles to customers
- Work safely within the parameters of your role using Standard Operating Procedures
- Apply policies which relate to health and safety at work
- Act appropriately in situations to prevent harm to yourself and others
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Training schedule
Pharmacy Services Assistant Level 2 (GCSE) and Functional Skills if required.
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- Maths and English (grade 4-9)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
About this employer
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.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Further progression may well be available in other areas within our sector, upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
I & F LIMITED
Jackie Bijkerk
jackie.bijkerk@skills4group.co.uk
0161 794 0528
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000047837.
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