Pharmacy Service Assistant Apprentice High Street Pharmacy

Location

Bilston, West Midlands | United Kingdom

Job description

What you will do in your working day

• Taking in and handing out prescriptions
• Dispensing prescriptions
• Using dispensary and stores computer systems to generate stock lists and labels
• Helping to maintain reasonable dispensary stock levels
• Ordering items for use within a department
• Receiving, loading, unloading incoming goods from wholesalers, manufacturers and elsewhere
• Selling over the counter medicines
• Answering queries on the supply and availability of medicines, where this is within their competence
• Responding to telephone and face to face enquiries of a routine nature from patients, their representatives, members of the public and a wide range of staff groups, either in a pharmacy or in a ward and referring queries to the relevant member of the pharmacy team when necessary
• Drawing any problems identified or queries raised to the attention of pharmacists or pharmacy technicians
• Pre-packing, assembling and labelling medicines
• Ensuring that health and safety requirements are met

The training you will be getting

Level 2 Pharmacy Services Assistant Apprenticeship Standard.

Weekly release at our Walsall Campus - 1 day per week (term time only).

Full time apprentices will typically spend 15 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 learned, 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.

Functional Skills in English and maths if required.

What to expect at the end of your apprenticeship

Potential Progression to Pharmacy Technician.

Job tags

Salary

£10.16k per annum