Pre-Registration Pharmacy Technician Apprentice

NHS; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking enthusiastic applicants for a trainee Pharmacy Technician role at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. This fixed-term program advances toward registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and combines on-the-job learning with online college.

You will contribute to a large, integrated pharmacy department with dispensary, wards, procurement, trials, and informatics.

Qualifications

• You must have 4 GCSEs (or equivalent) at grade 4 or above including Maths and English.
• GCSEs must include Biology and Chemistry or Dual Award Science as specified.

Responsibilities

• Attend online college and build a skills-based evidence portfolio.
• Dispense and accuracy check medicines safely and effectively.
• Undertake ward-based clinical duties including medicines reconciliation and patient counselling.
• Stock control of medications.
• Rotations through Clinical Trials, Procurement, Inpatient/Outpatient dispensary and clinical areas; work at Freeman and RVI sites.
• Saturday working and late night working on a rotational basis.

Skills

Effective communication

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Time management

Willingness to learn

Independence

Computer skills

Education

GCSEs (Maths, English, Biology or Human Biology, Chemistry)

Job description

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking enthusiastic applicants for a trainee Pharmacy Technician role at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. This fixed-term program advances toward registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and combines on-the-job learning with online college.

You will contribute to a large, integrated pharmacy department with dispensary, wards, procurement, trials, and informatics.