Apprentice Pharmacy Technician
Ingleton Pharmacy
CARNFORTH (LA6 3EH)
Closes in 29 days (Friday 29 August 2025)
Posted on 29 July 2025
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Summary
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!
- Wage
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£14,133.60 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Pharmacy technician (integrated) (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday with some Saurdays maybe required on a rota basis.
35 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 September 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- 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
We are looking for someone who has 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.
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 on a weekly basis
Where you'll work
37 MAIN STREET
INGLETON
CARNFORTH
LA6 3EH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
WOODSPEEN TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Pharmacy technician (integrated) (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Recognise and work within their scope of practice and skills,
- Use relevant data and information to make effective decisions
- Accurately retrieve and reconcile information about a person’s medicines
- Accurately assemble prescribed items
- Issue prescribed items safely and effectively and take action to deal with discrepancies carry out an accuracy check of dispensed medicines and products
- Accurately perform pharmaceutical calculations to ensure the safety of people
- Apply the principles of clinical governance and ensure person’s confidentiality
- Assess a person’s present supply of medicines and order appropriate medicines and products.
- Receive requests for medicines, including prescriptions, and check for their validity, safety and clarity, taking action to deal with any problems with the person directly
- Demonstrate operational skills within their scope of practice
- Provide a safe, effective and responsive pharmacy service
- Take personal responsibility for the legal, safe and efficient supply of medicines
- Apply the principles of governance to pharmacy operational processes
- Ensure the confidentiality of patient data.
- Communicate and work effectively with members of the multidisciplinary team
- Explain the impact of audit and evaluation on the quality of pharmacy operations and services
- Engage others in the improvement of processes and systems
- Effectively use systems to support the safe and effective management and supply of medicines
- Listen to a person, understand their needs and interpret what matters to them.
- Give the person all relevant information and advice in a way they can understand, so they can make informed decisions about their health and wellbeing
- Optimise a person’s medicines to achieve the best possible outcomes.
- Obtain relevant information from people – including patients, carers and other healthcare professionals – and use it to optimise care appropriately
- Adapt information and communication to meet the needs of particular audiences
- Check and review their own and others work effectively
- Suggest and implement personal goals and methods of improvement
- Maintain CPD outcomes that meet with regulatory requirements
- Identify and respond effectively to errors and near misses
- Ensure effective safeguards are in place particularly for children and vulnerable adults
- Prioritise time and resources effectively to achieve local and national objectives
- Respond to medical emergencies
- Ensure that health and safety controls are embedded and working
- Effectively supervise other members of the team
- Recognise and work within their scope of practice and skills,
- Use relevant data and information to make effective decisions
- Accurately retrieve and reconcile information about a person’s medicines
- Accurately assemble prescribed items
- Issue prescribed items safely and effectively and take action to deal with discrepancies carry out an accuracy check of dispensed medicines and products
- Accurately perform pharmaceutical calculations to ensure the safety of people
- Apply the principles of clinical governance and ensure person’s confidentiality
- Assess a person’s present supply of medicines and order appropriate medicines and products.
- Receive requests for medicines, including prescriptions, and check for their validity, safety and clarity, taking action to deal with any problems with the person directly
- Demonstrate operational skills within their scope of practice
- Provide a safe, effective and responsive pharmacy service
- Take personal responsibility for the legal, safe and efficient supply of medicines
- Apply the principles of governance to pharmacy operational processes
- Ensure the confidentiality of patient data.
- Communicate and work effectively with members of the multidisciplinary team
- Explain the impact of audit and evaluation on the quality of pharmacy operations and services
- Engage others in the improvement of processes and systems
- Effectively use systems to support the safe and effective management and supply of medicines
- Listen to a person, understand their needs and interpret what matters to them.
- Give the person all relevant information and advice in a way they can understand, so they can make informed decisions about their health and wellbeing
- Optimise a person’s medicines to achieve the best possible outcomes.
- Obtain relevant information from people – including patients, carers and other healthcare professionals – and use it to optimise care appropriately
- Adapt information and communication to meet the needs of particular audiences
- Check and review their own and others work effectively
- Suggest and implement personal goals and methods of improvement
- Maintain CPD outcomes that meet with regulatory requirements
- Identify and respond effectively to errors and near misses
- Ensure effective safeguards are in place particularly for children and vulnerable adults
- Prioritise time and resources effectively to achieve local and national objectives
- Respond to medical emergencies
- Ensure that health and safety controls are embedded and working
- Effectively supervise other members of the team
Training schedule
- Level 3 Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship Standard
- Please note all training is delivered through remote delivery into the workplace
- Mentor/Manager support within the pharmacy
- In-house training
- Register with the GPhC upon completion
- Added training within the pharmacy to support with the course
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
- Science (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
Successful candidates must pass a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
About this employer
Ingleton Pharmacy is a community pharmacy located in Carnforth. The pharmacy offers the following services to patients: NHS blood pressure checks, flu vaccination service, prescription delivery and travel clinic.
After this apprenticeship
- For the right person there is opportunity to progress into a full-time permanent role
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WOODSPEEN TRAINING LIMITED
Abbey Laura Roche
abbey.roche@woodspeentraining.co.uk
07599109538
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000334332.
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Closes in 29 days (Friday 29 August 2025)
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