Level 3 Diploma in Pharmacy Service Skills (NVQ)(QCF) (formerly NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services) with Accredited Technical Certificate (Underpinning Knowledge Programme)

• The Production Facility
• Cleanroom Equipment
• Contamination - source and control
• The Production Process
• Legislation
• Principle of QA and QC
• Use of appliances and dressings
• Drug Tariff
• Supply to Care Homes
• Health Promotion
• The Medicine Counter Assistant Course
• IT Skills
• Presentation Skills
• Powerpoint for Presentations

New framework starts September 1st 2010 - details coming soon.

• Unit - Dispense medicines and products (mandatory)
• Unit - Control stock of pharmaceutical materials and equipment (mandatory)
• Unit - Providing pharmaceutical information and advice (mandatory)
• Unit - Ensure your own actions reduce the risks to health and safety (mandatory)
• Unit - Manage your work and development
• Unit - Assist with the provision of pharmacy customer service
• Unit - Support the use of pharmacy information technology
• Unit - Manufacture and assemble sterile and non-sterile batch medicinal products
• Unit - Prepare pharmaceutical products aseptically
• Unit - Assist in the sale of OTC medicines
• Unit - Assist in the provision of community specialist activities
• Unit - Facilitate learning through demonstration and instruction

• Develop the role of the pharmacy technician to be able to deal with routine queries.
• Enable the technician to be involved in professional discussions with the pharmacist regarding more complex issues.

• There are none, as we do provide a foundation course for physiology, but participants must be employed in the dispensary at least part-time, working a minimum of 14 hours per week, for the duration of the course.

• 24 months

At the end of each section there is a combination of multiple choice questions (can be completed online) and an assignment that is returned to Buttercups Training for assessment and feedback.

Evidence of performance comes from short accounts (written by the candidate and witnessed by the pharmacist or pharmacy technician) of activities occurring in the pharmacy. Additional performance not naturally occurring can be assessed by simulations or additional questions.

• Level 3 Diploma in Pharmacy Service Skills (NVQ)(QCF) (formerly NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services) and the RPSGB accredited Technical Certificate.

Click the link to view the enrolment pack for the Level 3 Diploma in Pharmacy Service Skills (NVQ)(QCF) (formerly NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services) with Accredited Technical Certificate (Underpinning Knowledge Programme) Course.