Apprentice Pharmacy Services Assistant
Easons Pharmacy
Tamworth, B77 5BB
Closes in 19 days (Sunday 20 October at 11:59pm)
Posted on 1 October 2024
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Summary
Join our dynamic pharmacy team as a Pharmacy Assistant! You'll work closely with our pharmacists, helping prepare and dispense medications, provide valuable health advice, and ensure a smooth patient experience. If you’re detail-oriented, customer-focused.
- Annual wage
- £13,312 a year
- Training course
- Pharmacy services assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm.
Optional overtime on Saturdays once part way through their course.
40 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Wednesday 6 November
- Duration
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1 Year 3 Months
- Positions available
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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
- To select, label and dispense correct items in accordance with standard operating procedures to ensure safe supply to patients
- To dispense controlled drugs in accordance with standard operating procedures to ensure legal compliance
- To ensure at the point of sale, the safe and correct supply of dispensed items to patients
- To identify problems in administration of medicines such as medicine interactions and other physical factors that may affect patient compliance
- To create and update patient medication records in accordance with data protection principles to ensure patient confidentiality
- To assist with stock control and inventory procedures to maximise availability and minimise waste
- To ensure the safe and appropriate storage of medicines
- To assist with the preparation of monitored dosage and cassette box systems to benefit patients on multiple medication regimes
- To maintain an up-to-date knowledge and understanding of pharmacy issues for the purposes of continuing professional development
- To support pharmacy colleagues and mentor others through the timely completion of training courses
- To work as part of a team and actively demonstrate a willingness to support and achieve the overall business objectives
Where you’ll work
215a
Watling Street
Wilnecote
Tamworth
B77 5BB
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
BIRMINGHAM METROPOLITAN COLLEGE
Your training course
Pharmacy services assistant (level 2)
Equal to GCSE
Course contents
Your training plan
This is a Level 2 Pharmacy Services Assistant standard that includes the following:
- Upon successful completion the apprentice will achieve a Pharmacy Services Assistant Level 2 qualification
- The 20% off the job training is delivered 1 day a week with the apprentice attending Mathew Boulton College in Birmingham
- In-house training provided by the employer
- On-programme learning that will meet all the Knowledge, Skills, and behaviours (KSBs) in the standard and prepare apprentices for their End Point Assessment (EPA). Mock tests and practice runs will be arranged as the EPA approaches
- GPHC approved Dispensing and MCA qualification
Requirements
Essential qualifications
Other in:
- English (grade 4/C OR ABOVE)
- Maths (grade 4/C OR ABOVE)
Desirable qualifications
Other in:
- Science (grade 4/C OR ABOVE (for progression))
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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Positive Disposition
- Resilient
- Manage challenging customers
Other requirements
As part of this apprenticeship, you will be required to travel to both the employer location and also attend Mathew Boulton college. Please ensure that you have researched your travel arrangements and are happy with the time it will take and distance required to travel, before you apply for this vacancy.
About this company
"Eason’s pharmacy is a family run business, with the current pharmacist being the third generation of the family to work there since the business opened in Wilnecote, Tamworth in 1953. We aim to achieve a high level of customer satisfaction, aided by our long-standing and well trained staff. "
http://www.easonpharmacy@gmail.com (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
We have a bonus scheme, quarterly team nights out and a staff discount.
After this apprenticeship
- Following successful completion of the training, an apprentice could be qualified to work as a dispensing assistant in Community Pharmacies: Should they wish to continue training, accuracy-checking roles present an interesting progression
- Further training can lead to a Level 3 Pharmacy Technician qualification, meaning registration with the GPhC and a qualification which is recognised in the wider NHS
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BIRMINGHAM METROPOLITAN COLLEGE
BMet Recruitment Team
recruitment@bmet.ac.uk
0121 362 1122
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000279850.
Apply now
Closes in 19 days (Sunday 20 October at 11:59pm)
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