Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship

RG24 9YA- A pharmacy technician is a registered healthcare professional who works under the supervision of a pharmacist to prepare, assemble, check, and supply medicines and medical services.

What you'll do

Responsibilities:

• Dispensing & Checking: Assemble prescriptions, generate labels, and perform accuracy-checking on medications.

• Patient Care: Offer health and lifestyle advice, help with inhaler techniques, support medicines reconciliation, and counsel patients.

• Stock & Workflow Management: Order, receive, and replenish stock, manage dispensary workflows, and handle controlled drugs safely.

• Specialist Services: Participate in hospital aseptic (sterile) preparation, clinical trials, mental health services, or primary care medication reviews.

• Team Supervision: Supervise pharmacy support staff, coordinate training, and escalate complex clinical queries to the pharmacist.

(Basingstoke)

Training

Pharmacy Technician (Integrated) Level 3

After the apprenticeship

An apprenticeship allows you to earn a wage, gain valuable work experience and industry specific competence.

Potential for full time employment on successful completion of the apprenticeship.

Transferable skills that are invaluable in the wider world of work.

Skills

• Attention to detail
• Communication skills
• Customer care skills
• Initiative
• Non judgemental
• Organisation skills
• Patience
• Team working

Qualifications

• Essential: GCSE, English (grade 4)
• Essential: GCSE, maths (grade 4)

About the employer

Our reputation is built on our commitment to prompt professional, personal service and attention to detail, which is reflected in the services we offer and the time we take to get to know our clientele and how to best service their needs.

Apprenticeship details

• Course: Pharmacy technician (integrated) (level 3), Health and science
• Apprenticeship level: Advanced (level 3)
• Training provider: I & F LIMITED
• Expected duration: 2 Years 3 Months
• Hours: 40 hours a week. Working week: 9am-6pm Mon -Fri
• Start date: 26 October 2026
• Positions available: 1
• Wage: £22,880 a year