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Without the support of pharmacy technicians and accredited checking technicians, the pharmacist will be overburdened in any busy dispensary, and not be able to provide a sufficiently satisfactory level of service.

The above, in essence, is the significance of accredited checking technician jobs.

Accredited checking technician jobs are similar to pharmacy technician jobs. While the latter receives the prescription, takes out the drugs from shelves and packs them, the former checks the dispensed prescription for its accuracy. Checking, labeling and packing have all become formal procedures and the accredited checking technician will be trained in all these in a pharmacy context.

1. Training to Become an Accredited Checking Technician
2. The technician training is done under vocational training schemes, and accredited checking technicians are NVQ 3 or BTEC certified (in UK). The checking technician is trained to check that:
   • The medicine or product matches the prescription and is in date
   • It is assembled using correct equipment and processes
   • It is packed and labeled appropriately

Appropriate records are made

Health, hygiene and safety procedures are followed at all times

To equip the technician with the required competencies, the vocational training program will typically:

Start with an explanation of the legal and professional issues involved in checking, packing and labeling pharmacy medicines

Train the technician to work with other staff of the pharmacy

Make the technician go through typical checking exercises