Pharmacy Assistant
What is a career as a pharmacy assistant in health and social care?
A pharmacy assistant provides customer service and support to pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. The role involves handling prescriptions, managing stock, and offering healthcare advice to customers.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Some key responsibilities include;
- Assisting in preparing and labelling prescription medicines under the supervision of a pharmacist.
- Helping customers choose over-the-counter medications and providing basic healthcare advice.
- Collecting prescriptions from customers and inputting details into the system.
- Ordering, storing, and restocking medicines and health products.
- Following legal and ethical regulations regarding medicine handling and managing payments, keeping records, and answering customer inquiries.
Entry routes and pay
There are no set entry requirements but expect a good standards of English and Maths and some may ask for qualifications such as GCSEs, NVQs or equivalent.
There are apprenticeship opportunities across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough where you may be able to join as an pharmacy apprentice. For more information about apprenticeships please click here.
Depending on your employer, will depend how much you will earn. Typically a starting salary is about £23,000, with opportunities to increase with experience and further training and qualifications.
Where can you work?
Care Home
Community
Doctors’ Practice
Hospice
Hospital
Mental Health
Pharmacy
