Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a specialist pharmacist can go next

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

Specialist pharmacists provide specialist services for companies in the pharmacy industry and in hospital pharmacies. The role of the specialist pharmacist varies throughout Europe, subject to national rules and training.

Also known as clinical pharmacist, expert pharmacist, clinical pharmacologist, advanced pharmacist, pharmacy expert, expert in pharmacy, specialist in pharmacy, pharmacy specialist.

Professionals 60 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: industrial pharmacist, 67%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
industrial pharmacist 67% covered healthcare assistant 64% covered dental hygienist 59% covered physiotherapy assistant 59% covered hospital pharmacist 55% covered specialist pharmacist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from specialist 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 specialist pharmacist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A specialist pharmacist needs 50 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
  • provide specialist pharmaceutical care assisting and caring
  • pharmacotherapy health and welfare
  • provide specialist pharmaceutical advice communication, collaboration and creativity
  • pharmacognosy health and welfare
  • provide medication information communication, collaboration and creativity
  • pharmacokinetics health and welfare
  • pharmacy law business, administration and law
  • provide pharmaceutical advice communication, collaboration and creativity
  • review patient's medical data information skills
  • advise on poisoning incidents communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Specialist 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 specialist 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.