Developing your career

The programme is designed to support pharmacy technicians in all sectors and at any stage of their career to become better equipped to adapt and deliver safe and effective patient care.

The programme is made up of the following main components:

• Education supervisor support to help you through the programme
• A self-directed e-course comprised of five modules, plus access to the wider CPPE library of learning programmes
• A choice of workshops and activities, including:
  • Clinical assessment skills face-to-face workshop with workplace practice of clinical assessment skills
  • Online workshop to support reflective practice
  • PGDs: Empowering pharmacy technicians to provide services online workshop
  • Other workshops running each semester
  • Pharmacy technician impact groups
• Optional peer support sessions, which provide opportunities to develop a professional support network
• Learning at your own pace

Once you have identified your own personal learning needs by completing the learning needs review, 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 pharmacy settings.
4. Develop your clinical therapeutics knowledge.
5. Apply shared decision making principles to person-centred consultations.
6. Demonstrate appropriate clinical assessment skills and apply them to your practice.
7. Develop your skills as a reflective practitioner and apply these to your practice, CPD and revalidation.
8. Build a powerful and professional support network to support you during this programme and your ongoing practice.

All pharmacy technicians who are looking to gain the skills to develop their roles in practice. Although not compulsory, we suggest you talk to your employer about taking part. You will also need a pharmacist or other healthcare professional to observe your clinical assessment skills in practice.

You can apply and start at any time. Please apply by selecting the ‘Apply here’ link under the ‘Apply now to book your place’ drop-down below. To guarantee your place and gain access to the e-course, you will be asked to confirm:

• that you agree to engage in the programme
• details of your place of work.

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. Some of the workshops require a keycode (password), which you will find on Canvas, our virtual learning platform, once you have enrolled.

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 to 60 minutes to discuss your learning needs review and help you develop an action plan. Your education supervisor will arrange additional meetings throughout the duration of the programme to give you support and guidance. You will have access to a learning record 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.