Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 2
Pearson BTEC Level 2 Certificate in Pharmaceutical Science
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits30
- Guided learning180 hours
- Units in this qualification26
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Assemble Prescriptions SafelyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the procedures for assembling prescribed items
- Assemble prescribed items
- Understand why records are maintained
- Reduce risks and errors
Assemble prescribed itemsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to assemble prescribed items
- Select the prescribed item
- Label and package prescribed items
- Complete the assembly process
- Comply with current legal and ethical requirements, organisational standard operating procedures and relevant national and local guidelines and policies
Assist in the Issuing of Pharmaceutical StockReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assemble stock for issue
- Issue stock
- Complete the issuing process
- Comply with current legislation, policy, good practice, organisational and professional codes of practice and ethical standards
- Operate within the limitations of the job role
Assist in the issuing of prescribed itemsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm the identity of the individual
- Identify whether the individual is taking other medication
- Issue prescribed items
- Operate within the limitations of the job role at all times
- Comply with current legislation, policy, good practice, organisational and professional codes of practice and ethical standards
Assist in the manufacture and assembly of medicinal productsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare the environment, equipment, ingredients and self prior to assembly or manufacture of medicinal products
- Assist with the preparation and processing medicinal products
- Complete the assembly and manufacturing process of medicinal products
- Operate within the limitations of the job role
- Comply with standard operating procedures, health and safety and environmental monitoring policies
Assist in the preparation of documentation, materials and other items for manufacture and assembly of medicinal productsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Follow health and safety procedures in the work place
- Assist in the preparation of the work area
- Assist in the preparation and completion of the documentation and labels for the product
- Select and prepare raw materials for the preparation of the product
- Work within the limitations of the job role
Assist in the sale of medicines and productsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify customers' needs
- Refer a customer to the appropriate authority
- Understand when the sale of OTC medicines cannot be completed
- Sell medicines or products
- Know the local policy, legislation and good practice for sale of medicines
Assist with the provision of a pharmacy service to meet individuals’ needsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify individual’s needs
- Provide information which meets the requirements of the individual
- Resolve individual’s issues and concerns
- Comply with organisational standard operating procedures, policies and procedures service
- Work within the limitations of the job role
Assisting in the preparation, manufacture and assembly of medicinal productsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legislation, policies and good practice relevant to medicines manufacture
- Know the requirements for environmental and personal hygiene
- Know about the materials and processes used in medicines manufacture
- Know about the requirements for packaging, labelling and documentation
Communicating with Pharmacy CustomersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of effective communications with pharmacy customers.
- Understand the importance of identifying pharmacy customers' needs.
- Meet pharmacy customers' needs
- Work within the limitations of their role.
Contribute to the effectiveness of teamsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the importance of own role and how it contributes to the team performance
- Use feedback to improve personal team performance
- Manage time and commitments effectively
- Establish effective working relationships with all members of the team
- Comply with organisational, national and European legislation
Ensure your own Actions Reduce risks to Health and SafetyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the hazards in the workplace
- Act upon hazards in the workplace
- Reduce the risks to health and safety in the workplace
Law, regulation, Health and Safety in PharmacyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the main laws relating to the delivery of a pharmacy service
- Know the requirements of a pharmacy workplace health and safety.
- Understand the hazards and risks within the pharmacy workplace
- Respond to pharmacy workplace hazards and risks
Maintain pharmaceutical stockReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain a safe storage environment
- Carry out stock checks
- Deal with stock related problems
- Comply with current legislation, policy, good practice, organisational and professional codes of practice and ethical standards
- Operate within the limitations of the job role
Order Routine Pharmaceutical StockReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Accurately order stock
- Process orders
- Complete the ordering process
- Comply with current legislation, policy, good practice, organisational and professional codes of practice and ethical standards
- Operate within the limitations of the job role
Ordering and issuing stock in the pharmacyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand pharmacy stock and its control
- Order pharmacy stock
- Issue pharmacy stock
- Understand pharmacy stock records
Prepare aseptic productsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor the working environment
- Prepare and maintain suitable working environments
- Prepare a range of aseptic products
- Comply with current legislation, policy, good practice, organisational and professional codes of practice and ethical standards
- Operate within the limitations of the job role
Prepare documentation, materials, components and other items for the preparation of aseptic productsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare, monitor and maintain suitable working environments
- Complete documentation accurately
- Prepare starting materials for the preparation of aseptic products
- Comply with current legislation, policy, good practice, organisational and professional codes of practice and ethical standards
- Operate within the limitations of the job role
Preparing for and manufacture of aseptic productsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legislation, policies and good practice relevant to aseptics
- Know the requirements for environmental and personal hygiene in theaseptic unit
- Know the processes used for manufacture and preparation of Aseptic products
- Know about the requirements for packaging, documentation and storage
Processing a PrescriptionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the procedures for receiving and processing prescriptions
- Know the procedures for issuing prescriptions
- Understand why pharmacy records are maintained and how to maintain them
Receive Pharmaceutical StockReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Receive stock
- Correctly store stock
- Complete the receipt of stock
- Know about the current legislation and good practice for receipt of stock
- Comply with current legislation, policy, good practice, organisational and professional codes of practice and ethical standards
- Operate within the limitations of the job role
Receive prescriptions from individualsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Ensure that the prescription declaration is complete
- Complete financial transaction procedures
- Provide the individual with relevant information
- Comply with current legislation, policy, good practice, organisational and professional codes of practice and ethical standards
- Operate within the limitations of the job role
Receiving, storing and maintaining stock in the pharmacyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand pharmacy stock
- Receive and store pharmacy stock
- Maintain pharmacy stock
Selling Over The Counter Medicines in the PharmacyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about appropriate questions and techniques to obtain information from individuals
- Choose suitable medicinal products to sell Over the Counter
- Provide information and advice to individuals
- Understand local policy, legislation and good practice for the Sale of Medicines
Undertake an in-process accuracy check of assembled prescribed items prior to the final accuracy checkReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm the prescription is suitable for dispensing
- Check dispensed items
- Resolve dispensing errors and near misses
- Confirm an in-process accuracy check
- Comply with current legislation, policy, good practice, organisational and professional codes of practice and ethical standards
- Operate within the limitations of the job role
Working in the Pharmacy TeamReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legal and ethical requirements relevant to work within the pharmacy team
- Understand the principles that underpin effective teamwork.
- Know own strengths and weaknesses as part of a pharmacy team
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- 06_Measure, weigh and prepare compounds and solutions for biomanufacturing use
- Certify Product for release under Marketing Authority License into the supply chain
- Determine methods for Pharmaceutical Manufacture
- Ensure the Manufacturing Processes meet Licensing Requirements
- Issue equipment, medical devices, products, associated systems and consumables for use within healthcare
- Maintain License Requirements and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) to Ensure Compliance
- Maintain stocks of resources, equipment and consumables in life sciences and related industries
- Preparation of products for use within healthcare activities
Where this can lead
Associate Pharmaceutical Sales Representative
Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We're committed to giving you the tools, training, and opportunities to build a truly impactful and rewarding career, whether that's becoming a top-tier individual contributor or leading a team. Show us your drive, and we'll help you get there.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson BTEC Level 2 Certificate in Pharmaceutical Science
26 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Assemble Prescriptions Safely
- Assemble prescribed items
- Assist in the Issuing of Pharmaceutical Stock
- Assist in the issuing of prescribed items
- Assist in the manufacture and assembly of medicinal products
- Assist in the preparation of documentation, materials and other items for manufacture and assembly of medicinal products
and 20 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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