Certificate of Higher Education in Pharmacy Technician Practice Apprenticeship
Key Details
- Award
- Certificate of Higher Education
- 2025 Start Dates
- 24 February 2025 (applications close 10 January 2025)
22 September 2025 (applications close 8 August 2025)
Overview
This course is the first of its kind in Great Britain that provides a Pharmacy Technician qualification in Higher Education, and was accredited by the GPhC in 2020.
The Certificate of Higher Education in Pharmacy Technician Practice forms part of the apprenticeship standard for Pharmacy Technicians in England.
As a blended learning course, trainees work through a curriculum of interactive on-line learning, face to face regional study days and work-based learning.
Workplace supervision
Each trainee must be allocated an Educational Supervisor in the workplace who will have the responsibility of overseeing the trainees work-based training for the duration of the course. This can be either a pharmacist or pharmacy technician with appropriate experience. UEA provides mandatory training for anyone undertaking this role.
The Certificate of Higher Education in Pharmacy Technician Practice forms part of the apprenticeship standard for Pharmacy Technicians in England.
Course Modules
As a blended learning course, trainees will work through a curriculum of interactive online learning, face to face study days (live online sessions during COVID-19) and work-based learning.
Year 1
Module 1: The Pharmacy Technician as a Healthcare Professional: Safe Medicines Supply
Module 2: Medicines, Diseases and Health 1
Year 2
Module 3: Providing Safe and Effective Person-centred Care in a Complex Environment
Module 4: Medicines, Diseases and Health 2
Entry Requirements
In order to enrol for the course and become a pre-registration trainee pharmacy technician, applicants must be employed in a pharmacy setting and working under the direction of a pharmacist or pharmacy technician for not less than 30 hours per week over a consecutive two-year period. Trainees may be employed in one setting or undertaking cross-sector training across two or more settings.
A minimum of 4 GCSEs grade A* - C (new grades 9 - 4) or equivalent including:
- GCSE English at Grade C/Level 4 or above, Scottish National 5 or above, or equivalent English language evidence which can include Functional Skills Level 2*
- GCSE Maths at Grade C/Level 4, Scottish National 5 or above, or equivalent evidence of numeracy which can include Functional Skills Level 2
- GCSE Science x 1 at Grade C/Level 4 or above, or Scottish National 5 or equivalent
*PLEASE NOTE that English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) is not an equivalent to GCSE English Grade C/Level 4 or above and does not meet the entry requirements.
Further Information / Application process
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