Developing your career

This programme aims to develop the knowledge, clinical skills and behaviours of pharmacy technicians working in community pharmacy and the Health and Justice sector to increase patient access to clinical services by widening the skill mix in community pharmacy teams.

The programme is made up of the following main components:

• Self-directed e-course comprised of six modules
• Learning needs analysis (LNA) and an initial meeting with an education supervisor to discuss learning needs and create an action plan
• Clinical assessment skills face to face workshop
• Workplace practice of clinical assessment skills
• Online two-hour workshop to support reflective practice
• Optional peer support sessions, which provide opportunities to develop professional network and establish support networks
• Approximately 4-6 hours of learning per week

Once you have identified your own personal learning needs by completing the self-assessment framework, the different topic areas in this programme will support you to:

1. Define your strengths and transferable skills to identify your learning needs and then create a personal development plan
2. Describe how changing legislation will influence and affect your ongoing practice
3. Apply the essential knowledge and skills required to deliver highly effective clinical services in community pharmacy and the Health and Justice sector.
4. Apply relevant clinical therapeutics to person-centred consultations, ensuring that shared decision making is prioritised
5. Demonstrate appropriate clinical assessment skills and apply them to your practice
6. Develop your skills as a reflective practitioner and apply these to your practice
7. Build a powerful personal and professional support network to support you during this programme and your ongoing practice
8. Create a record of learning and application (RLA) to show competencies and achievements from the learning undertaken.

Pharmacy technicians who currently work in community pharmacy and the Health and Justice sector and are looking to gain the skills to develop their roles in practice.

You can apply and start at any time. Please apply via the orange section below Apply now to book your place. To guarantee your place and gain access to the e-course you will be asked to confirm:

• you are a pharmacy technician working in community pharmacy or the Health and Justice sector
• you have access to a pharmacist or other health care professional who is able to observe and sign off your clinical assessment skills in practice
• the name and postcode of your place of work
• you agree to attend the mandatory Clinical assessment skills face-to-face workshop and the online reflective practice workshop. You will choose the dates that work best for you

The dates for the workshops are planned about three months in advance. You can check the upcoming dates through the links below but you won’t be able to book these until you have enrolled on the programme.

• Clinical assessment skills for pharmacy technicians
• Community pharmacy advancing your role: reflective practice workshop

Once you have enrolled on the e-course, you will be assigned a CPPE education supervisor, who will contact you to arrange an online meeting of 40 minutes to discuss your learning needs. Your education supervisor will be available throughout the programme to give you some extra support and guidance should you need it.

You will have access to a tracker linked to your CPPE profile so you can see your progress through the course and update your progression as you go. You can enable the CPPE viewer to allow your employer to see your progress on the programme.

Apply here