Apprentice Pharmacy Services Assistant (Bourneville Pharmacy)

• Handling customer queries with confidence
• Collection of prescription charges / checking patient exemption statements
• Operation of efficient stock control appropriate to the needs of the dispensary with the objective of ensuring continuity of supply for patients and minimising wastage
• Ensuring that drugs are received and stored in an appropriate manner in accordance with the manufacturers’ instructions
• Ensuring that refrigerated items are stored at the appropriate temperature and maintaining the temperature control record / logbook
• Ensuring that all dispensary equipment is kept clean and in good working order
• Maintaining full and accurate records of all dispensing transactions
• Ordering and unpacking drugs and dressings
• Dispensing and checking repeat prescriptions and prescriptions from surgeries under the supervision of a dispenser
• Taking orders for repeats and dealing with queries from district nurses and support staff
• Using the computer to keep records up to date
• Dealing with queries from patients regarding their prescriptions
• Handling controlled drugs (and keeping a register)
• Handling prescription money and operating / balancing the till
• Assisting when required to meet targets in relation to the dispensing doctors' scheme
• Assisting in stock checks, control record / logbook
  
  

The standard includes off-the-job training that will follow the time allocations outlined in the Occupational Standard and is a requirement with Birmingham Metropolitan College.
The off-the-job training will be delivered from Mathew Boulton College, Birmingham, on a day release basis.
Apprentices are graded according to their performance in the EPA.
Upon successful completion, the apprentice will achieve a Pharmacy Services Assistant Level 2 qualification.

Potential progression onto the Level 3 Pharmacy Technician apprenticeship.
Further progression may well be available in other areas within the Pharmacy sector, upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.

We are a local independent Pharmacy. We have been owned and run by the same family since 1970. We aim to provide health care for the local community.