Apprentice Pharmacy Technician
| Posting date: | 24 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 December 2025 |
| Location: | Southampton, SO16 6YD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9188-25-0863 |
Summary
Main outline of rotations will include.- Dispensary based training at Southampton General Hospital and The Royal South Hants Hospital where you will be trained through competency-based learning to dispense accurately in the first year moving on to final accuracy checking of medications in the second year.- Receiving prescriptions and issuing medications to patients with advice at the RSH hospital.- Pharmacy Stores experience receiving and distributing of medications out to the Trust and other hospitals.- Experience of Audit, Pharmacy Risk, Electronic Prescribing and Clinical Trials will also be offered.- Ward based learning where you will spend time with patients discussing their medications they have brought into hospital and offering advice under supervision. - Observational experience in an area of our large aseptic units learning how to produce Intravenous antibiotics, Total Parental Nutrition or Cytotoxic IV/Infusions. - 37.5hours a week with one in six weekend commitment - either Saturday or Sunday and one Bank Holiday per year which may include Christmas Day- You will need a minimum of 4 GCSEs grade C/4 or higher and they must include Maths, English Language and a Science or equivalent overseas qualification. The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) rules state A non-UK national is eligible for funding if they have permission from the UK government to live in the UK (not for educational purposes) and have been ordinarily a resident in the UK for at least the previous three years before the start of the apprenticeship.- If short-listed proof of qualifications will need to be provided before the interview date.