hospital pharmacisttopharmacy assistant
A hospital pharmacist already meets 47% of what the pharmacy assistant role asks for. The move turns on 22 required skills not yet in the profile.
This move: 64 of 100 · substantial
1 Share of the pharmacy assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the hospital pharmacist profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 24 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A pharmacy assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a hospital pharmacist background worth leading with.
- already held check information on prescriptions information skills
- already held ensure the appropriate supply in pharmacy management skills
- already held maintain adequate medication storage conditions handling and moving
- already held pharmacokinetics health and welfare
- already held provide pharmaceutical advice communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held medicines health and welfare
All 24 carried skills, including the 19 the pharmacy assistant role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 27 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice required
- required, not held contribute to continuity of health care required
- required, not held ensure safety of healthcare users required
- required, not held comply with legislation related to health care required
- required, not held empathise with the healthcare user required
- required, not held check for medication expiry terms required
- required, not held maintain pharmaceutical records required
- required, not held take pharmaceutical inventory required
- required, not held ensure quality assurance for pharmaceutical products required
- required, not held manage healthcare users' data required
- required, not held communicate by telephone required
- required, not held communicate with customers required
- required, not held interact with healthcare users required
- required, not held work in a multicultural environment in health care required
- optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
- required, not held apply organisational techniques required
- required, not held handle petty cash required
- required, not held respond to changing situations in health care required
- optional, not held operate cash register optional
- required, not held handle the logistics of medicinal products required
- required, not held prepare prescription labels required
- required, not held transfer medication required
- required, not held medicines for self-medication required
- optional, not held phytotherapy optional
- optional, not held homeopathy optional
2 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a pharmacy assistant role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 check for medication expiry terms skill · sector specific
- 02 comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill · sector specific
- 03 contribute to continuity of health care skill · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 24 skills that carry over
- already held accept own accountability skill
- already held adhere to organisational guidelines skill
- already held advise on healthcare users' informed consent skill
- already held check information on prescriptions skill
- already held communicate in healthcare skill
- already held deal with emergency care situations skill
- already held ensure the appropriate supply in pharmacy skill
- already held follow clinical guidelines skill
- already held follow procedures to control substances hazardous to health skill
- already held inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
- already held listen actively skill
- already held maintain adequate medication storage conditions skill
- already held medicines knowledge
- already held obtain healthcare user's medical status information skill
- already held process medical insurance claims skill
- already held promote inclusion skill
- already held provide health education skill
- already held use e-health and mobile health technologies skill
- already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
- already held apply context specific clinical competences skill
- already held develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship skill
- already held educate on the prevention of illness skill
- already held pharmacokinetics knowledge
- already held provide pharmaceutical advice skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
- required, not held hygiene in a health care setting required
- optional, not held pharmaceutical chemistry optional
5 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held operate cash register optional
- optional, not held phytotherapy optional
- optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
- optional, not held homeopathy optional
- optional, not held pharmaceutical chemistry optional
28 held skills the pharmacy assistant role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role advise on poisoning incidents skill
- not needed by the target role applied therapeutics related to medicines knowledge
- not needed by the target role biological chemistry knowledge
- not needed by the target role conduct health related research skill
- not needed by the target role counsel healthcare users on medicines skill
- not needed by the target role dispense medicines skill
- not needed by the target role ensure pharmacovigilance skill
- not needed by the target role evaluate scientific data concerning medicines skill
- not needed by the target role improve safety of medicines skill
- not needed by the target role maintain pharmacy records skill
- not needed by the target role manage adverse reactions to drugs skill
- not needed by the target role manage hospital-acquired infections skill
- not needed by the target role manage medical supply chains skill
- not needed by the target role manage medication safety issues skill
- not needed by the target role monitor patients' medication skill
- not needed by the target role perform diagnostic testing for allergies skill
- not needed by the target role perform therapeutic drug monitoring skill
- not needed by the target role pharmacognosy knowledge
- not needed by the target role pharmacotherapy knowledge
- not needed by the target role pharmacy law knowledge
- not needed by the target role physics knowledge
- not needed by the target role prepare medication from prescription skill
- not needed by the target role prescribe medication skill
- not needed by the target role provide anti-cancer medical treatment skill
- not needed by the target role provide specialist pharmaceutical care skill
- not needed by the target role test medicinal products skill
- not needed by the target role toxicology knowledge
- not needed by the target role treat endocrine disorders skill
5 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held medicines for self-medication required
- required, not held hygiene in a health care setting required
- optional, not held phytotherapy optional
- optional, not held homeopathy optional
- optional, not held pharmaceutical chemistry optional
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.