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Kick-start a rewarding career as a Pharmacy Technician!
Join our friendly team at High Speed Pharmacy and train towards becoming a GPhC-registered healthcare professional. Earn while you learn and achieve a nationally recognised Level 3 qualification. No prior pharmacy experience required—just strong ability and a willingness to learn.
Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship — Timperley
About the role:
As a Pharmacy Technician Apprentice, you'll train towards becoming a registered healthcare professional, working alongside pharmacists to ensure the safe, accurate and lawful supply of medicines. This is a genuinely demanding apprenticeship that will stretch you academically and professionally — you'll develop deep clinical knowledge, sharp technical skills, and real responsibility for patient safety.
Key responsibilities:
- Preparing, assembling and supplying prescription medicines accurately and safely, in line with legal and clinical standards.
- Providing clear, person-centred advice on prescription and over-the-counter medicines, and referring appropriately to pharmacists or other healthcare professionals.
- Supporting the day-to-day running of the pharmacy, including stock control, ordering, business processes and clinical governance.
- Using pharmacy systems to process prescriptions, orders and patient records accurately.
- Supporting and helping to train pharmacy support staff as you progress.
- Contributing to audits, service evaluations and continuous improvement.
- Maintaining the highest standards of accuracy, confidentiality and patient safety at all times.
Qualification:
Level 3 Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship (equivalent to A-level).
On successful completion, you'll be eligible to register with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a Pharmacy Technician.
Training delivered through blended learning alongside your role.
What we're looking for:
- A strong academic background and a quick, curious mind.
- Excellent numeracy and confidence with detailed, technical information.
- Meticulous attention to detail and a genuine commitment to patient safety.
- Clear communication skills and a professional, calm manner.
- Ability to work accurately in a fast-paced environment.
- Willingness to commit fully to the length and demands of the apprenticeship.
Why apply?
- Train towards a regulated healthcare profession with long-term career security.
- Earn a competitive salary while gaining a nationally recognised qualification.
- Progress into more senior clinical, managerial or specialist roles within pharmacy.
Please note: this vacancy may close earlier than the stated deadline if a suitable candidate is found — so don't wait to apply!
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
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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
- 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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On successful completion, you'll be a qualified, GPhC-registered Pharmacy Technician — a regulated healthcare professional with excellent long-term career prospects. Progression routes include Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT), medicines management, clinical or specialist technician roles and pharmacy team leadership.
I & F LIMITED
Abbey Roche
vacancies@skills4group.com
0161 794 0528
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000039879.
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