Apprentice Pharmacy Assistant
Castle Chemist
Birmingham (B29 5PT)
Closes in 28 days (Thursday 22 May 2025)
Posted on 22 April 2025
Contents
Summary
We are seeking to recruit a new member to join our dispensing team in our innovative small team of qualified professionals, as an Apprentice Pharmacy Assistant. For the right person, there is the opportunity to secure full-time employment and progress to higher level qualification.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Pharmacy services assistant (level 2)
- Hours
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Shifts to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Friday 23 May 2025
- Duration
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1 year
- Positions available
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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
- Dispensing of medication to patients
- Over-the-counter sales of non-prescription medication
- Check and monitor prescription slips
- Health & safety responsibility
- Observing COVID restrictions and guidelines
- Use of patient record systems and use of smart cards
- Data entry relating to medication
- Labelling and dispensing
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Numerate
- Working within a team environment
- Liaison with doctors' surgery and health professionals
Where you’ll work
104 Weoley Park Road
Selly Oak
Birmingham
B29 5PT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
WOODSPEEN TRAINING LIMITED
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
More training information
Training will be provided online by Woodspeen Training so no travel is required for training.
Requirements
Desirable 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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this company
At Castle Chemist, we have our customers very best interests at heart and aim to provide a high level of service to them to improve their experience. We focus on providing our customers with the very highest levels of patient care, no matter what their reasons are for visiting us. Our outstanding team is how we’ve built our reputation and ethos. They are our backbone, their ability to create a great first impression on new visitors, finding better solutions for long-standing patients or keeping particular patients’ needs in mind when choosing new stock. Their primary focus is ensuring customer service and satisfaction.
After this apprenticeship
- Pharmacy Technician Level 3 Apprenticeship
- A permanent position within the organisation
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WOODSPEEN TRAINING LIMITED
lucy.booth@woodspeentraining.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000316488.
Apply now
Closes in 28 days (Thursday 22 May 2025)
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