Pharmacy assistant

Pharmaceutical technicians and assistants perform a variety of tasks related to dispensing medicinal products under the guidance of pharmacists or other health professionals.

• preparing medicinal products and other pharmaceutical compounds under the guidance of pharmacists or other health professionals;
• dispensing medicinal products to customers and giving written and oral instructions on their use according to prescriptions from physicians, veterinarians and other health professionals;
• receiving prescriptions from health professionals and checking the accuracy and completeness of information according to medical record-keeping standards;
• maintaining proper storage and security conditions for medicines;
• filling and labelling containers with prescribed medicinal products;
• assisting customers by answering questions or referring them to pharmacists for advice;
• pricing and filling prescriptions, and creating and maintaining patient records, including lists of medicinal products for individual patients;
• ordering, labelling and counting stocks of medicinal products, chemicals and supplies, and entering inventory data;
• cleaning and preparing equipment and containers used in preparing and dispensing medicines.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Pharmacy assistant