Pharmacy Services Assistant Apprentice

SYNC CHEM LIMITED

Wolverhampton, WV10 9BA

Closes in 17 days (Monday 14 October at 11:59pm)

Posted on 18 September 2024

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Summary

Fantastic opportunity to gain training and employment as a Level 2 Pharmacy Services Assistant. If you have a genuine interest in pharmacy and are looking for an entry route into this profession, then please apply!

Annual wage
£13,312 a year

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Training course
Pharmacy services assistant (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 10.00am - 6.00pm. Including an allocated day for college training, as required.

40 hours a week

Possible start date

Tuesday 15 October

Duration

1 Year 6 Months

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

  • Servicing customers - selling over the counter medicines
  • Taking and handing out prescriptions, dispensing prescriptions
  • Promoting services
  • Cash handling
  • Ensuring tidiness of branch
  • Using dispensary computer system to generate stock orders and labels
  • Receiving, loading unloading incoming goods from wholesalers, manufacturers and elsewhere

Where you’ll work

8 Showell Circus

Wolverhampton

WV10 9BA

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

WALSALL COLLEGE

Your training course

Pharmacy services assistant (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

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

    • Your training plan

    Level 2 Pharmacy Services Assistant Standard qualification:

    • Weekly release at our Walsall Campus - 1 day per week (term time only)
    • Full-time apprentices will typically spend 15 months on-programme (before the gateway) working towards the occupational standard, with off the-job training
    • The purpose of the end point assessment (EPA) is to test that an apprentice is fully capable of doing their job before they receive their apprenticeship certificate. It also helps to demonstrate that what an apprentice has learned can be applied in the real world
    • The focus is now on the outcome of an apprenticeship and apprentices have to demonstrate the knowledge, skills and behaviours that employers have identified they need

    Requirements

    Essential qualifications

    GCSE in:

    • English (grade 4)
    • maths (grade 4)

    Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

    Skills

    • Communication skills
    • Organisation skills
    • Customer care skills
    • Team working
    • Initiative
    • Non judgemental
    • Enthusiastic
    • punctual
    • Reliable

    Other requirements

    Your main working location will be at Low Hill Pharmacy WV10 9BA. However, you will also be required to work one day per week at Fallings Park Pharmacy WV10 0NT and at Your Pharmacy First WV10 9QY

    About this company

    A busy community pharmacy offering a range of NHS and general Pharmacy Services

    After this apprenticeship

    • Possibility to up-skill to Level 3 Advanced Apprenticeship (Pharmacy Technician)

    Ask a question

    The contact for this apprenticeship is:

    WALSALL COLLEGE

    Kerry Hall

    khall@walsallcollege.ac.uk

    The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000277748.

    Apply now

    Closes in 17 days (Monday 14 October at 11:59pm)

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