Occupation Atlaspharmacy assistant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/c1a86d6d-7785-43e1-994b-958eba58fff7
pharmacy assistant
Pharmacy assistants perform general duties, such as stock management, serving at the cash desk, or performing administrative duties. They deal with the inventory within the pharmacy under the supervision of a pharmacist.
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Job Zone
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- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 2: Some Preparation Needed
Some preparation. Usually a high school diploma, some previous work-related skill or experience, and a few months to a year of training with experienced workers.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
CERConventional · Enterprising · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional6.79
- E Enterprising3.84
- R Realistic3.75
- S Social3.11
- I Investigative1.57
- A Artistic1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Pharmacy Aides (31-9095.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (41)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply organisational techniques
- check for medication expiry terms
- check information on prescriptions
- communicate by telephone
- communicate in healthcare
- communicate with customers
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure quality assurance for pharmaceutical products
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- ensure the appropriate supply in pharmacy
- follow clinical guidelines
- follow procedures to control substances hazardous to health
- handle petty cash
- handle the logistics of medicinal products
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- maintain adequate medication storage conditions
- maintain pharmaceutical records
- manage healthcare users' data
- medicines
- medicines for self-medication
- obtain healthcare user's medical status information
- prepare prescription labels
- process medical insurance claims
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- respond to changing situations in health care
- take pharmaceutical inventory
- transfer medication
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional (10)
- apply context specific clinical competences
- communicate in foreign languages with health service providers
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- homeopathy
- operate cash register
- pharmaceutical chemistry
- pharmacokinetics
- phytotherapy
- provide pharmaceutical advice
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 41 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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