Educator Apprenticeship for Pharmacy Professionals

Empowering the pharmacy workforce to educate, mentor and strengthen learning across healthcare.

Pharmacy professionals are central to safe, effective care, and the development of others is a key part of the role. Whether you support trainees, apprentices, students, new starters or colleagues, your ability to teach and coach makes a direct difference to confidence, competence and patient outcomes.

The Educator Apprenticeship for Health and Social Care helps you deepen your educational expertise, giving you the structure, confidence and recognition to lead learning across your team and organisation.

Fully funded through the apprenticeship levy, this programme is designed for the wider pharmacy workforce across hospital, community and primary care settings.

Develop your teaching expertise – in a real pharmacy context

You will learn how to plan and deliver learning that supports effective supervision, mentoring and assessment. The programme connects educational principles with practical strategies that work in busy, practice-based settings. You will learn how to:

Deliver structured, inclusive learning and coaching in the workplace

Provide feedback and guidance that supports safe practice and learner growth

Promote reflective, evidence-informed practice across the team

Strengthen training quality, consistency and competence in practice-based learning

Build collaboration across pharmacy, multidisciplinary teams and education partners

Why it’s relevant for Pharmacy Professionals

This apprenticeship helps you lead education confidently within your service area. It supports you to embed best practice in workplace learning, improve learner experience, and build a positive culture of continuous development across the pharmacy workforce.

It will help you to:

Strengthen your ability to support and develop learners in practice
Build inclusive, effective learning environments for a diverse workforce
Support trainees, apprentices and colleagues through structured supervision and feedback
Gain recognition as a confident educator within pharmacy services

Learning designed for real impact

Through workshops, reflective projects and tutor support, you will apply learning directly to your pharmacy context. You will explore practical strategies for supervision, communication, inclusion and assessment that enhance learning quality and support safe, confident practice.

Fully funded and flexible

The apprenticeship is fully funded through the apprenticeship levy, with flexible delivery that fits alongside your professional role. You will receive guidance from experienced tutors who understand healthcare education and the realities of learning in workplace settings.

Professional growth and recognition

Learners report stronger confidence, clearer structure in workplace education, and improved consistency in how learning is supported across teams.

Educator Apprentice, NHS Foundation Trust

“This apprenticeship has given me structure, confidence, and practical strategies to support learning in our team. It has made a real difference to how we teach and support others.”

Ready to strengthen learning across your organisation?

Enquire today to join our next cohort and begin your journey as a confident, capable educator.

Proudly Working in Partnership with

Proudly working with partner organisations including Sirona Care & Health, UHNM, Gloucestershire Hospitals, Bristol City Council, and BNSSG ICB