CERTIFICATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN PHARMACY TECHNICIAN PRACTICE APPRENTICESHIP

As a blended learning course, trainees will work through a curriculum of interactive online learning, face to face study days (live online sessions during COVID-19) and work-based learning.

Year 1

Module 1: The Pharmacy Technician as a Healthcare Professional: Safe Medicines Supply
Module 2: Medicines, Diseases and Health 1

Year 2

Module 3: Providing Safe and Effective Person-centred Care in a Complex Environment
Module 4: Medicines, Diseases and Health 2

In order to enrol for the course and become a pre-registration trainee pharmacy technician, applicants must be employed in a pharmacy setting and working under the direction of a pharmacist or pharmacy technician for not less than 30 hours per week over a consecutive two-year period.  Trainees may be employed in one setting or undertaking cross-sector training across two or more settings.

 A minimum of 4 GCSEs grade A* - C (new grades 9 - 4) or equivalent including:

• GCSE English at Grade C/Level 4 or above, Scottish National 5 or above, or equivalent English language evidence which can include Functional Skills Level 2*
• GCSE Maths at Grade C/Level 4, Scottish National 5 or above, or equivalent evidence of numeracy which can include Functional Skills Level 2
• GCSE Science x 1 at Grade C/Level 4 or above, or Scottish National 5 or equivalent

*PLEASE NOTE that English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) is not an equivalent to GCSE English Grade C/Level 4 or above and does not meet the entry requirements.  

Useful links

• General Pharmaceutical Council

• Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK (APTUK)

• NHS Careers

• NHS Jobs UK

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