Level 3 Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship
SCOPE EARLY YEARS LTD
Swindon (2 available locations)
Closes in 10 days (Friday 26 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 16 September 2025
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Summary
Are you passionate about healthcare and eager to make a difference in people's lives? Get ready for an exhilarating opportunity as a Pharmacy technician Apprentice! Embark on a dynamic learning journey, working alongside experienced pharmacists and a supportive team, gaining the skills to thrive in the pharmaceutical world.
- 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 technician (integrated) (level 3)
- Hours
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Full time.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 1 October 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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3
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
What You'll Do:
- Provide exceptional customer service, assisting and guiding clients with a warm smile.
- Play a key role in dispensing medications, ensuring safety and precision.
- Master inventory management, keeping our pharmacy stocked and organised.
- Label and package medications with precision and care.
- Become a medication expert, learning about their uses and effects.
- Safeguard compliance and safety standards to protect our community's well-being.
- Embrace teamwork, collaborating with healthcare professionals to deliver excellence.
- Elevate your career with continuous professional development.
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- 167 Rodbourne Road, Swindon, SN2 2AY
- Gorse Hill, Swindon, SN2 1UU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BRIGHT BEES NURSERY LTD
Training course
Pharmacy technician (integrated) (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
More training information
Eligibility for apprenticeship:
- Must have the right to work and have resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 years.
- Should not be enrolled in full-time education elsewhere.
- Must be aged 16 years or older.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
Other in:
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
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
About this employer
Dive into hands-on experience within a vibrant pharmacy setting. Receive mentorship from top-notch pharmacists and healthcare professionals. Unlock the potential for continued employment as a certified Pharmacy Dispenser. Level 3 Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship is also available for those with experience. Discover the thrill of the pharmaceutical industry and its rewarding challenges.
After this apprenticeship
- Working in hospital pharmacies, GP practices, or primary care networks.
- Further training in medicines management or accuracy checking.
- Long-term options include pharmacy management or studying to become a pharmacist.
- It’s a great stepping stone for a long-term career in pharmacy.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BRIGHT BEES NURSERY LTD
Aysha Navsa
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000342418.
Apply now
Closes in 10 days (Friday 26 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
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