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Where a hospital pharmacist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a hospital pharmacist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Hospital pharmacists prepare, dispense and provide medication to patients in hospitals. They collaborate with healthcare personnel such as doctors and nurses to treat patients and also offer advice and information on medications.

Also known as hospital pharmacy specialist, clinical pharmacist, site lead pharmacist, hospital locum pharmacist, head of hospital pharmacy, relief pharmacist.

Professionals 52 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: specialist pharmacist, 50%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
specialist pharmacist 50% covered pharmacist 50% covered pharmacy assistant 47% covered industrial pharmacist 45% covered pharmacy technician 44% covered hospital pharmacist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from hospital pharmacist, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a hospital pharmacist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A hospital pharmacist needs 30 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • monitor patients' medication communication, collaboration and creativity
  • counsel healthcare users on medicines communication, collaboration and creativity
  • dispense medicines communication, collaboration and creativity
  • maintain pharmacy records information skills
  • provide specialist pharmaceutical care assisting and caring
  • check information on prescriptions information skills
  • ensure pharmacovigilance assisting and caring
  • manage hospital-acquired infections assisting and caring
  • pharmacotherapy health and welfare
  • prepare medication from prescription assisting and caring
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a hospital pharmacist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Hospital pharmacist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a hospital pharmacist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.