Apprentice Pharmacy Services Level 2 Wanted for training to NVQ Level 3
GURDAL LTD
West Bromwich (B70 7RW)
Closes on Monday 28 July 2025
Posted on 12 June 2025
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Summary
Do you want to aspire to develop an advanced career in community pharmacy? Having done a NVQ2 in Pharmacy services or GCSE passes in maths and English you will join a training course by Woodspeen Training who will provide online learning. This will enable you to gain a NVQ level 3 Technician qualification and join the GPhC.
- Wage
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£16,489.20 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- Friday and alternate half day Saturday. Times to be confirmed.
42 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 11 August 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
- Learning and carrying out dispensing and preparing prescriptions
- Manage prescription related queries
- Work with the team to carry out a variety of tasks within the pharmacy
- Have a patient facing role proving excellent service
- Carry out business tasks and development towards KPI
- Manage stock and deal with buying, storing and handling pharmacy medicines
- Manage prescription requests, receipts and queries
Where you'll work
1 Lyng Lane
West Bromwich
B70 7RW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
WOODSPEEN TRAINING LIMITED
Your 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
Your training plan
Level 3 Pre Registration Training for Pharmacy Technician GPhC standard.
- Online Training with Woodspeen Training
- You will be working towards the NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services
- Functional Skills in maths and English and or level 2 NVQ Pharmacy services needed
More training information
Woodspeen train online with standards set by GPhC for trainee pharmacy level 3 technicians
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Self development
Other requirements
An attention to detail and ability to learn and develop at a pace. To have a proven track record of excellence in customer service Be efficient and proactive as well as working well in a team
About this company
Leading Community Pharmacy based in West Bromwich. Training and developing apprentices for over 10 years.
Company benefits
We offer profit related bonuses to staff
After this apprenticeship
- On completion of NVQ Level 2, you will then complete Level 3 to become a trained Pharmacy Technician
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
GURDAL LTD
Geno Samra
sandwellpharmacygroup@gmail.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000325712.
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Closes on Monday 28 July 2025
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