Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician

The closing date is 25th Oct 2026

Anticipated Interview date(s) 11/11/2026

Job summary

Royal Papworth Hospital have an exciting opportunity for a fixed term 2-year apprenticeship to join our team. If you are interested in science and medicine and would like to get paid whilst studying a college equivalent course, then this is the job for you! You would have the chance to become a registered Pharmacy Technician at the end of this course which opens many doors in the Pharmacy world. You will be required to have excellent communication skills, have good attention to detail and be able to work well within a team environment. This means you must be highly organised, have good time management skills and meet the targets set by your tutors and educational supervisor.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

The successful candidate will rotate through each area of the pharmacy including stores and procurement, dispensary, clinical trials, homecare and the wards. They will be expected to work closely with the pharmacy team and MDT's including nurses and Healthcare Support Workers depending on what area of the pharmacy they will be rotated in at the time.

They will be participating in receiving deliveries of medication, ward top ups, how to create orders of medications, learning the different areas of the pharmacy, dispensing prescriptions, stock and date checking, podding inpatients to help their discharge to run smoothly, counselling patients at their discharge on the wards and performing medication histories for new patients.

This will all coincide with their learning on the job for the two-year apprenticeship in order to complete the course and achieve the knowledge, skills and competencies in becoming a Registered Pharmacy Technician.

The successful candidate will be required to have good communication skills, a good attention to detail and be able to work well within a team environment.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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Job description

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

5 GCSE Grade A*-C passes or equivalent to include Maths, English, Chemistry and Biology

Desirable

Previous experience of working in a pharmacy environment

Experience

Essential

Ability to work as a part of a team with a flexible approach to duties (demonstrate that you can "multi-task" and assist others when seeking help or busy in their allocated duties)

Self-motivated and keen to learn

Awareness of personal limitations

Demonstrable numeracy and literacy skills

Ability to communicate (verbally and in written form) withPharmacy colleagues, nursing and other ward staff, patients and visitors to Pharmacy on a range of pharmacy matters.

Good personal organisational skills (demonstrating you can manage your own workload and handle conflicting and changing workload priorities)

Able to work calmly and efficiently under pressure

Basic keyboard skills (including navigation around the keyboard, basic knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and databases)

Additional Criteria

Essential

As well as being able to demonstrate examples of how they work in a way that is consistent with our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration the successful candidate will be able to clearly demonstrate a commitment to driving culture change through equality, diversity and inclusion.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

For help with your application, contact:

Chelsea Stone

[email protected]

01223638179

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£25760.00 to £27476.00 Yearly

Contract

Fixed Term

Duration

24 Month(s)

Working pattern

Full-Time

Reference number

175-2627-2024

Job locations

Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY