Pharmacy Technician Apprentice
Blakenall Pharmacy
WALSALL (WS3 1LZ)
Closes on Saturday 31 January 2026
Posted on 1 December 2025
Contents
Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity to gain training and employment as a Pharmacy Technician. If you have a genuine interest in pharmacy and are looking for a route into this profession, this could be the perfect role for you!
- Wage
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£14,918.80 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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Specific days and shifts are to be confirmed upon interview with the Pharmacy (to be confirmed).
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 2 February 2026
- 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
The role will have various duties including, but not limited to:
- Servicing customers – selling over-the-counter medicines
- Taking and handing out prescriptions, dispensing prescriptions
- Accurately assemble prescribed items
- Ensure the confidentiality of patient data
- Communicate and work effectively with members
of the Pharmacy team - Promoting services
- Cash handling
- Ensuring tidiness of branch
- Using a dispensary computer system to generate stock orders and labels
- Receiving, loading unloading incoming goods from wholesalers, manufacturers and elsewhere
- Any other duties in line with the job role
Where you'll work
BLAKENALL VILLAGE CENTRE
79 THAMES ROAD
BLAKENALL
WALSALL
WS3 1LZ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
WALSALL COLLEGE
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:
- Weekly Online sessions 1 day per week (term time only)- with around 9 sessions requiring college attendance at our Wisemore Campus
- Full-time apprentices will typically spend 24 months on-programme (before the gateway) working towards the occupational standard, with off the-job training
- The purpose of the end point assessment (EPA) is to test that an apprentice is fully capable of doing their job before they receive their apprenticeship certificate. It also helps to demonstrate that what an apprentice has learnt can be applied in the real world
- The focus is now on the outcome of an apprenticeship and apprentices have to demonstrate the knowledge, skills and behaviours that employers have identified they need
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- maths (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
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Reliable
- Enthusiastic
- Good Time Keeping
Other requirements
To be considered for this apprenticeship, you must also hold a Science qualification or a Level 2 Pharmacy Qualification.
About this employer
Blakenall Pharmacy specialize in the provision of prescription medicines and patient care. Our team of experienced Pharmacists and professional pharmacy staff are dedicated to the timely supply of prescription medicines and pharmacy services to our many, many thousands of patients. We know that medication management can feel like a daunting undertaking and our pharmacy team are here to support you and your family through all stages of life.
After this apprenticeship
Possibility to gain full-time employment upon successful completion of the apprenticeship and gain further industry training.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WALSALL COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000003199.
Apply now
Closes on Saturday 31 January 2026
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