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Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship
SUMMIT PHARMA LIMITED Basingstoke (RG24 9YA)
Closes in 11 days (Saturday 24 October 2026)
Posted on 12 October 2026
Summary
A pharmacy technician is a registered healthcare professional who works under the supervision of a pharmacist to prepare, assemble, check, and supply medicines and medical services.
Wage
£22,880 a year
Training
Pharmacy technician (integrated) (level 3)
9am-6pm Mon - Fri
40 hours a week
Start date
Monday 26 October 2026
Duration
2 years 3 months
Positions available
1
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
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Responsibilities:
- Dispensing & Checking: Assemble prescriptions, generate labels, and perform accuracy-checking on medications.
- Patient Care: Offer health and lifestyle advice, help with inhaler techniques, support medicines reconciliation, and counsel patients.
- Stock & Workflow Management: Order, receive, and replenish stock, manage dispensary workflows, and handle controlled drugs safely.
- Specialist Services: Participate in hospital aseptic (sterile) preparation, clinical trials, mental health services, or primary care medication reviews.
- Team Supervision: Supervise pharmacy support staff, coordinate training, and escalate complex clinical queries to the pharmacist.
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Location: 57 Condor Way, Basingstoke RG24 9YA
Training
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 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 the 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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Requirements
Essential qualifications:
- GCSE in: English (grade 4) maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills:
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Customer care skills
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Organisation skills
- Patience
- Team working
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.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab). An apprenticeship allows you to earn a wage, gain valuable work experience and industry specific competence. Potential for full-time employment on successful completion of the apprenticeship. Transferable skills that are invaluable in the wider world of work.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
I & F LIMITED
Michaella Moreton
michaella.moreton@skills4group.co.uk
0161 794 0528
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000058521.
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Closes in 11 days (Saturday 24 October 2026)
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