Pharmacy Technician Level 3 Apprentice

Fantastic opportunity to gain training and employment as a Pharmacy Technician Apprentice at Northwood Dispensing. If you have a genuine interest in pharmacy and are looking for an entry route into this profession with some advanced responsibility, please apply.

Role Overview

Pharmacy technicians manage the supply of medicines and devices in a pharmacy and assist pharmacists with advisory services. As a technician, you could be taught in and involved in the following areas:

• Providing safe and effective pharmacy services
• Safety of medication use in line with the NHS long term plan (Directed Enhanced Services)
• Provide information to patients and other healthcare professionals
• Achieving the best outcomes through a patient’s medicines
• Answering customer's questions face-to-face or by phone
• Referring problems or queries to the pharmacist
• Supply medicines and devices to patients, whether on prescription or over the counter
• Assemble medicines for prescriptions
• Manage areas of medicine supply such as dispensaries
• Supervise other pharmacy staff / training and development
• Pre-packing, assembling and labelling medicines
• Quality control
• Procurement
• Medicines advice and information

Apprenticeship Details

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 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