How CPPE can support your wellbeing
CPPE is here to support your wellbeing through learning and personal development with over 40 soft skills guides, ranging from advice on Being resilient to Overcoming anxiety. These guides can support you through personal challenges that you may face as a pharmacy professional. Many provide toolkits to help you document and plan your development, while others demonstrate pharmacy-specific situations to help you put your learning into context.
As well as these guides, CPPE recognises that a pharmacy workforce that actively engages in continued professional learning and development is more confident, more resilient and more able to face challenges in their practice. The right learning can help reduce stress and anxiety in the workplace by ensuring that you have the skills to carry out your work confidently and safely.
A great way to do this is through our short e-learning programmes. For example, the Introduction to Accuracy checking pharmacy technician programme provides reassurance to pharmacy technicians who are considering the Accuracy checking pharmacy technician pathway. Or check out our series of online workshops, which are easier to fit around your busy schedule and help you feel more secure in your ability to offer person-centred care in a wide range of settings.
In addition to what CPPE has to offer, there are other organisations that can provide more urgent support.
Support for pharmacists
Pharmacist Support is the pharmacy profession’s independent, trusted charity. It provides a wide variety of support services to pharmacists and their families, former pharmacists, trainee pharmacists and student pharmacists. The charity has been supporting the pharmacy profession for more than 180 years and deeply understands and empathises with the issues affecting pharmacy today.
Each year, Pharmacist Support provides thousands of acts of support, and its mission is for no one in our pharmacy family to face challenging times without the charity by their side.
The free and confidential support services available through Pharmacist Support are Information and Enquiries, Specialist Advice in the areas of benefis and tax credits, debt and employment law, Financial Assistance, Addiction Support, Counselling and Peer Support, and the Wardley Wellbeing Service. For more information, please visit the website.
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) offers a one-to-one support service for its members. You can ask about careers, pharmacy practice, revalidation and much more. Access its One-to-One Support page to find out more.
Support for pharmacy technicians
The Association for Pharmacy Technicians UK (APTUK) is a professional leadership body for pharmacy technicians working in the UK. It can help you with advice on professional and educational issues.
We have worked with Pharmacist Support and APTUK to produce this pharmacy technicians factsheet, which provides you with advice and resources to support you in a number of areas, all of which help you to look after your wellbeing, including:
Self-study programmes available as PDFs
Online assessments
Extended online programmes which are either self-directed or supported by a CPPE tutor
Self-study online interactive learning, podcasts or e-lectures
Self-study, information-based, reflective online learning
Programmes for primary care teams including community pharmacy
Programmes for hospital and primary care pharmacy teams
Online workshops facilitated by a CPPE tutor
Programmes for hospital and primary care pharmacy teams
Local workshops facilitated by a CPPE tutor or some you can deliver yourself
We recognise that people have different learning needs. Some of our programmes contain core learning while others deliver more complex learning that is only required to support certain roles. We have three categories of learning (1,2,3) and have allocated each programme to an appropriate category.
Core learning. Builds on limited knowledge. Some background reading may be required.
Application of knowledge. Assumes prior learning.
Supporting specialisms. We may not be the provider and will signpost you to other learning providers.
Learning programmes from other providers which complement your learning.
