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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Pearson Education Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Pearson Education Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Pearson Education Ltd.
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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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Dispensing and Supply of Prescribed Medicines and Medicinal Products Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legislation and regulatory requirements for the safe receipt, assembling, dispensing and supply of prescribed medicines and products
- Receive and process prescriptions accurately and efficiently
- Assemble and dispense prescribed items in accordance with standard operating procedures
- Undertake an in-process accuracy check on prescribed medicines and products safely and effectively
- Supply prescribed medicines and products safely, providing appropriate information and advice to patients
Effective Teamwork within Pharmacy Services Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different roles and responsibilities within the pharmacy and wider healthcare team
- Understand the legal and ethical requirements relevant to teamwork within a pharmacy
- Understand the principles of effective teamwork, including communication and collaboration
- Understand the importance of effective teamwork on the delivery of pharmacy services and patient care
- Establish effective working relationships with all members within pharmacy services, including colleagues and other healthcare professionals
Managing Pharmaceutical Stock Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand governance requirements relating to managing pharmaceutical stock within a pharmacy
- Understand different types of pharmaceutical stock
- Understand the storage requirements for pharmaceutical stock
- Order pharmaceutical stock according to organisational procedures
- Receive pharmaceutical stock according to organisational procedures
- Maintain pharmaceutical stock according to organisational procedures
- Issue pharmaceutical stock according to organisational procedures
Person-centred Care and Communication Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate effectively within pharmacy services, using appropriate methods and techniques
- Understand the principles of person-centred care and support in a pharmacy setting
- Understand the role of pharmacy support staff in promoting healthy lifestyles to patients and customers
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of pharmacy support staff in relation to safeguarding individuals who may be vulnerable
Personal Development for Pharmacy Support Staff Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how pharmacy services are regulated.
- Examine own performance in a pharmacy setting.
- Reflect on and develop own practice as a pharmacy support staff member.
Principles of Health and Safety for Pharmacy Support Staff Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand individual responsibilities relating to health and safety in the workplace
- Understand employer responsibilities relating to health and safety in the workplace
- Understand the principles of risk management
- Understand procedures for responding to accidents and emergencies within the workplace
Principles of Safe Preparation and Manufacturing of Medicines and Pharmaceutical Products Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the governance requirements for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products, including relevant legislation and guidelines
- Understand the requirements for environmental and personal hygiene within pharmaceutical manufacturing, including cleaning and disinfection procedures
- Accurately perform calculations within pharmaceutical preparation and manufacturing, including dosage calculations and conversions
- Support the processing and manufacturing of pharmaceutical products, following standard operating procedures
- Understand the quality requirements in manufacturing pharmaceutical products, including quality control and quality assurance processes
Selling Over the Counter Medicines and Medicinal Products Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify individual needs for medicines and products within a pharmacy setting through effective questioning and listening skills
- Recommend suitable over the counter medicines and products based on individual needs and within scope of practice
- Understand how to assist in the provision of pharmacy services, including signposting to other healthcare professionals when necessary
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
06_Measure, weigh and prepare compounds and solutions for biomanufacturing use
- Standard
Develop a training programme for staff to ensure compliance with the requirements of Good Distribution Practice Legacy
- Standard
Develop, implement and maintain a quality system to control the distribution of medicinal products
- Standard
Dispense Aliquots of Radioactive and Non-Radioactive Medicinal Products for Immediate Use
- Standard
Dispense Patient-Specific Anti-Cancer Therapy Doses
- Standard
Dispense herbal medicines and products
- Standard
Dispense homeopathic remedies for an individual
- Standard
Manage resources to comply with the requirements of Good Distribution Practice
- Standard
Prescribe homeopathic treatment for individuals
- Standard
Select and dispatch medicinal products to comply with the requirements of Good Distribution Practice
- Standard
Tender for products of suitable quality for preparation of radioactive medicinal products
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Where this can lead
Pharmaceutical Compliance Specialist
This work can lead to a lead or staff compliance specialist role, a compliance manager position, or a director of pharmaceutical compliance role.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Pearson Education Ltd rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Dispensing and Supply of Prescribed Medicines and Medicinal ProductsEffective Teamwork within Pharmacy ServicesManaging Pharmaceutical StockPerson-centred Care and CommunicationPersonal Development for Pharmacy Support StaffPrinciples of Health and Safety for Pharmacy Support StaffPrinciples of Safe Preparation and Manufacturing of Medicines and Pharmaceutical ProductsSelling Over the Counter Medicines and Medicinal Products
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Pitch it Evaluate
“Selling Over the Counter Medicines and Medicinal Products” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Lead it Apply
“Effective Teamwork within Pharmacy Services” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- 06_Measure, weigh and prepare compounds and solutions for biomanufacturing use
- Develop a training programme for staff to ensure compliance with the requirements of Good Distribution Practice Legacy
- Develop, implement and maintain a quality system to control the distribution of medicinal products
- Dispense Aliquots of Radioactive and Non-Radioactive Medicinal Products for Immediate Use
- Dispense Patient-Specific Anti-Cancer Therapy Doses
- Dispense herbal medicines and products
- Dispense homeopathic remedies for an individual
- Manage resources to comply with the requirements of Good Distribution Practice
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Dispensing and Supply of Prescribed Medicines and Medicinal Products, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will gain knowledge of legislation and regulatory requirements for dispensing prescribed medicines and products. The unit develops skills to accurately process prescriptions, assemble and dispense items, and undertake accuracy checks following standard procedures.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Pearson BTEC Level 2 Certificate in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Support Staff
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Dispensing and Supply of Prescribed Medicines and Medicinal Products
- Effective Teamwork within Pharmacy Services
- Managing Pharmaceutical Stock
- Person-centred Care and Communication
- Personal Development for Pharmacy Support Staff
- Principles of Health and Safety for Pharmacy Support Staff
and 2 more in the full unit list below.
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