Band 4 Pre-registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician (PTPT) Apprentice

Job summary

70% Year 1 & 75% of top of Band 4 in Year 2

Do you have a passion for self-development and learning? Are you fascinated with science, health and medicines? Do you aspire to be a healthcare professional and deliver high-quality patient care?

We are looking for enthusiastic Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician Apprentices to complete a GPhC-accredited qualification and the Level 3 Pharmacy Technician (Integrated) Apprenticeship Standard.

We will provide you with a personal training plan and an Educational Supervisor to support you as you complete your qualification and achieve competencies and training objectives as you rotate through a variety of areas where our pharmacy team provide pharmaceutical services.

You are required to demonstrate excellent communication skills, attention to detail and accuracy, and to have a professional and person-centred attitude.

You must be able to meet the course delivery requirements including attending regional study days, completing distance-learning packages online and attending virtual classrooms online. Therefore, it is essential that you have the means to travel within the region (by car/public transport) and have access to appropriate IT equipment.You will need to be highly committed and self-motivated and to demonstrate excellent work/life/study balance skills.Trainees who successfully complete the qualification and training programme will be eligible to register with the GPhC and practice as a registered Pharmacy Technician.

Main duties of the job

To be eligible for this role, you must have at least 5 GCSEs at Grade C/4 or above, or equivalent, including Maths, English Language and at least one Science subject.Functional Skills Level 2 is accepted as equivalent evidence of English Language and Maths. A Statement of Comparability from UK ENIC must be held for qualifications obtained overseas. ESOL is not equivalent and doesn't meet the entry requirements, but IELTS (Band Score 7.0 overall with min. 6.0 in all components) may be considered.Full details of your qualifications MUST be clearly stated on your application form to be considered for shortlisting. Formal evidence i.e. certificates from awarding bodies MUST be provided at or prior to interview.In addition, you must meet apprenticeship funding requirements as defined by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education. If you have lived in the UK for less than three years or if you already hold a qualification in pharmacy or another closely related subject at RQF Level 3 or above, you may not be eligible.There is a requirement to work throughout all premises where BHRUT provide pharmaceutical services, but you will spend most of your time between Queen's Hospital and King George Hospital.

Please kindly note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we will close the advert earlier than 16/12/25.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record(we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated goodby the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen'sand get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hubin Ilford; an Ageing Well Centrein Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospitaland at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexiblyand more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wageemployer.

Some of the positive changes we've made are captured in this film.

Employer details

Employer name

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Queen's Hospital

Rom Valley Way

Romford

RM7 0AG

Employer's website

https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Queen's Hospital

Rom Valley Way

Romford

RM7 0AG

Employer's website

https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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