Buttercups training programmes
Employability skills
Introduction to Pharmacy
- Key Learning Outcomes: different types of pharmacy; pharmacy regulation; the role of the pharmacist and different members of the pharmacy team; services offered by pharmacies; the history of pharmacy; communication skills; finding work, including tips for writing your CV and advice about interviews; materials from our Medicines Counter Assistant and Dispensing Assistant courses
- Course Fee: £15 + VAT
- Course page: https://bit.ly/PharmacyIntro
Level 2 Support Staff Courses
Dispensing Assistant Course
- Key Learning Outcomes: Receiving, interpreting and assembling prescriptions; stock management; clinical governance; patient counselling; teamwork; person-centred care
- Accreditation: GPhC
- Duration: 12 months
- Course Fee: £162 + VAT
- Course page: https://bit.ly/DispensingAssistants
Accuracy Checking for Dispensing Assistants Course
- Key Learning Outcomes: APTUK-compliant accuracy checking portfolio, calculations, 1000-item checking, patient-centred care and safety, teamwork
- Accreditation: GPhC
- Duration: 12 months
- Course Fee: £170 + VAT
- Course Page: https://bit.ly/ACDA-GPhC
Medicines Counter Assistant Course
- Key Learning Outcomes: handling prescriptions; systemic health; teamwork; person- centred care; communication skills; classification of medicines; use of 2WHAM questions; abuse and misuse of medicines; communication skills
- Accreditation: GPhC
- Duration: 12 months
- Course Fee: £59 + VAT
- Course page: https://bit.ly/MedicinesCounterAssistants
Healthcare Assistant Course
- Key Learning Outcomes: Receiving, interpreting and assembling prescriptions; stock management; systemic health; clinical governance; patient counselling; teamwork; person-centred care
- Accreditation: GPhC
- Duration: 12 – 18 months
- Course Fee: £205 + VAT
- Course page: https://bit.ly/Level2_HCA
Pharmacy Support Worker Course
- Key Learning Outcomes: this is a flexible pick-and-mix format course with various outcomes depending on the training required. All learners are required to complete the two mandatory core modules, plus the technical modules relevant to their roles as outlined in the skill bundles selected at enrolment
- Accreditation: GPhC
- Duration: 12 – 18 months
- Course page: https://bit.ly/PharmacySupportWorkers
- Course Fee: varies based on skill-bundle chosen
| # | Skill Bundles | Course Fee (excl. VAT) |
| 1 | Two core modules | £32 |
| 2 | Receiving prescriptions | £27 |
| 3 | Assembling prescriptions | £97 |
| 4 | Dispensary stock management | £38 |
| 5 | Issuing prescribed items and patient counselling | £27 |
| 6 | Advice on non-prescribed medicines and products | £54 |
Pharmacy Delivery Drivers Course
- Key Learning Outcomes: customer service, teamwork, health & safety, and effective delivery of medicines to patients
- Accreditation: GPhC
- Duration: 3 months
- Course Fee: £70 + VAT
- Course page: https://bit.ly/PharmacyDeliveryDrivers
Dispensary Stock Management Course
- Key Learning Outcomes: laws and regulations related to medicines and controlled drugs; order, receive, maintain and supply pharmaceutical stock
- Duration: 3 months
- Course Fee: £70 + VAT
- Course Page: bit.ly/Pharm-Stock
Pharmacy Manufacturing Course
- Key Learning Outcomes: assembling prescriptions, stock, controlled drugs, aseptic manufacturing, medicinal products manufacturing, clinical governance
- Duration: 12 months
- Course Fee: £162 + VAT
- Course Page: bit.ly/Pharm-Manufacturing
Post-registration Pharmacy Technician Programmes
Level 4 Enhanced Practice Programme for Pharmacy Technicians
- Key Learning Outcomes: Depending on the learning needs, this course can be studied either by selecting units in a pick-and-mix format within a full programme, or as one of the six set specialised pathways. There are a total of 11 units with a mix of mandatory and optional ones.
- Course Page: https://bit.ly/L4-Enhanced-PT
| # | Pathway | Duration (months) | Course Fee (excl. VAT) |
| 1 | Full Programme | 24 | £3,250 |
| 2 | Antimicrobial Stewardship Pathway | 12 | £1,300 |
| 3 | Vaccination and First Aid Pathway* | 10 | £1,100 |
| 4 | Supporting Provision of Health Services Pathway | 18 | £2,200 |
| 5 | Research and Leadership Pathway | 18 | £1,300 |
| 6 | Pharmacy Aseptic Services Pathway | 10 | £1,300 |
| 7 | Pharmacy Procurement Pathway | 10 | £1,300 |
*Includes face-to-face training with a residential module at our Head Office in Nottingham. Travel and accommodation fees are not included within the course fee.
Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician Course
- Key Learning Outcomes: APTUK-compliant accuracy checking portfolio, calculations, risk assessment, clinical governance, patient-centred care and safety, teamwork
- Accreditation: GPhC
- Duration: 12 months
- Course Fee: £248 + VAT (online) | £315 + VAT (paper-based)
- Course Page: https://bit.ly/L3-ACPT
Foundation Practice Programme
- Key Learning Outcomes: Person-centred Care; Evidence-based Medicine; Medicines Optimisation; Leadership and Management; and optional module of Introduction to Primary Care Practice
- Accreditation: GPhC
- Duration: 12 months (Foundation Practice Programme), 3 months (optional module)
- Course Fee: £200 + VAT | £300 + VAT (with optional module)
- Course Page: https://bit.ly/FoundationPracticePT
