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Y12 student looking for pharmacy work experience - Help needed!!

I am a Y12 student interested in pharmacy and pharmacology at university, and i am looking for work experience.

Does anyone have any tips or suggestions on where to look and how to approach to the local pharmacies effectively....?

Also, if anyone has done pharmacy work experience before, I’d love to hear about your experiences and how you managed to secure it.

Thanksss

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Reply 1

Songbird19

Start asking now. Send a succinct email, attaching a Cv, to as many pharmacies as you could possibly get to. If you don’t hear anything within a couple of weeks then pop in to ask face to face and hand them a physical Cv and covering letter. Show you are polite, keen and sensible. Many places may turn you down or not respond at all. Be flexible with your availability (you can do any holidays or weekends over the whole year) Ask independent, chain, GP and hospital pharmacies. Do a bit of research into their individual establishment so you can tweak each email to be more specific. Personally address your emails to the actual pharmacist if you can find out their name.

It’s probably also worth getting some work experience and/or volunteering with any sector that involves work with vulnerable people (care home, disability centre, charity/medical outreach etc) as you will still be able to use these to show you have knowledge of teamwork, heath needs and disparities, working in a stretched environment etc.

Your local, big teaching hospital or science research park might run summer schools or work experience taster sessions for various careers so do enquire about those too. My daughter did a week long pathology summer school at ours and it was great!

Good luck :smile:

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Reply 2

jessatkinson

I called up my local community pharmacy (just on their normal phone number) and asked for work experience and they said yes, I would reccomend this or going in and asking! I then asked for a job when on work experience and was successful so it’s definitely worth taking that bold step and doing it!