Apprentice - Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

Pharmacy is a continually evolving, fast paced environment, combining professional skills with the efficient use of automation to provide outstanding care for our patients.

The Pharmacy Technician apprenticeship offers you fully funded training and qualifications, while allowing you to work and earn in a rewarding role.

On qualification you are eligible to register with the General Pharmaceutical Society

If you have a keen interest in science, healthcare and IT and want to make a difference, then this could be the job for you!

This role provides intensive training and demands a significant amount of motivation and commitment; including the ability to consistently dedicate 10-15 hours to home study per week.

Excellent communication skills, attention to detail, ability to meet deadlines and manage own time efficiently are essential.

The job will involve working some evenings, weekends and bank holidays.

All applicants MUST meet and be able to prove the apprenticeship criteria listed in the person specification, including holding 4 GCSEs (or proven equivalent) including English Language, Maths and Science subjects at grade 4-9 / A*-C. Please check these carefully and ensure this is clear on your application form (including GCSE grades) as candidates who do not meet the full criteria will not be shortlisted.

Unfortunately applicants holding higher than a Level 2 Pharmacy qualification will not be eligible for apprenticeship funding.

Main duties of the job

Supervised duties will include:

• Labelling, dispensing and accuracy checking a variety of prescriptions using our electronic prescribing system
• Learning how different medicines work and what they are used to treat
• Ordering, receiving and maintaining pharmaceutical stock
• Providing excellent customer care and maintaining confidentiality while dealing with patients, staff and the public
• Counselling patients on how to use their medicines safely
• Working directly with patients on wards and in clinics to ensure safe medicines use both while in hospital and on discharge

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Frimley Park Hospital

Frimley

GU16 7UJ

Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Frimley Park Hospital

Frimley

GU16 7UJ

Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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