Are you looking to take a step onto a highly sought after career path? Are you reliable, keen and committed? Would you like to learn new skills in a pharmacy? Do you have ambition and the drive to succeed? If you can answer yes, then this pharmacy technician apprenticeship opportunity is for you!

This is a unique role, as you will gain both experience as a trainee pharmacy technician within a community pharmacy and within a GP surgery across your working week.

We are looking for someone who has experience in a pharmacy or retail, good communication and customer service skills, smartly dressed with excellent command of the English language and organisation skills. This is because you will be talking to a variety of patients who will each have individual needs, so these types of skills are very important to us. To help you thrive in a pharmacy setting, you should be punctual not only arriving to work but also meeting deadlines. A friendly personality, keen to progress within your setting, a caring team member, hardworking and have a willingness to learn are all skills we are looking for.

GCSEs at grades C/4 or above (or equivalent) in 

Maths, English and Science are essential to undertake this programme. Ideally has an NVQ2 as a Pharmacy Assistant.

Working Hours

Mon-Fri 30 hours between hours of 8.30am-6.30pm, 6 of 30 hours will be training time (paid inclusive of 30 hours)

What are the duties of the role?

• Support with patient consultations
• Dispensing medicine
• General admin
• Dealing with over the counter and phone enquiries
• Use of the computer and the pharmacy specific software
• Checking off and unpacking orders
• Stock management
• Date checking of stock
• Processing NHS prescriptions
• Completion of apprenticeship work every week for 6 hours (Paid)
• Attendance of virtual training session through Microsoft Teams

What you will gain- Level 3 Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship

• Mentor/Manager support within the pharmacy
• In-house training
• Register with the GPhC upon completion
• Potential full time permanent role on completion

Future Prospects- Full-time permanent role for the right person.

Things to consider- All training is delivered by Woodspeen remotely to the workplace via Teams. There is no travelling involved for training