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We are pleased to announce the launch of our new learning programme, Community pharmacy technician: advancing your role. Launched in collaboration with the Pharmacy Integration Programme at NHS England, this fully funded learning programme is designed to help community pharmacy technicians develop the skills and confidence to support the delivery of effective clinical services in community pharmacy.

The course is made up of four main components, including a self-directed e-course and learning needs assessment (LNA) at the start of the programme, a one face-to-face workshop on clinical assessment skills (CAS), workplace practice of CAS, a two-hour workshop for reflection and optional monthly peer support sessions, all providing you with the opportunity to develop your professional network and establish communities of practice.

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:

• describe how changing legislation will influence and affect your ongoing practice
• apply the essential knowledge and skills required to deliver highly effective clinical services in community pharmacy
• apply relevant clinical therapeutics to person-centred consultations, ensuring that shared decision making is prioritised
• demonstrate appropriate clinical assessment skills and apply them to your practice
• develop your skills as a reflective practitioner and apply these to your practice
• build a powerful personal and professional support network to support you during this programme and your ongoing practice
• 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 want to develop their roles in practice can apply to take part.

To enrol on the pilot cohort of this programme, you need to commit to attend both the CAS and peer reflection workshops. Once you have enrolled on the e-course, you will be assigned an education supervisor, who will contact you to arrange a 40-minute online meeting to discuss your learning needs.

More dates will be released in due course for further cohorts of this programme.

For further information and how to apply, visit: www.cppe.ac.uk/career/pt-ayr/pt-advancing