Pharmacy assistant
Code 3213.1
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.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- hygiene in a health care setting
- medicines
- medicines for self-medication
Skills and competences
- Proporcionar formación y soporte técnico a los usuarios en el ámbito de la salud
- accept own accountability
- communicate with customers
- communicate in healthcare
- communicate by telephone
- contribute to continuity of health care
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure quality assurance for pharmaceutical products
- ensure the appropriate supply in pharmacy
- manage healthcare users' data
- handle the logistics of medicinal products
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- llevar la caja
- take pharmaceutical inventory
- handle petty cash
- maintain pharmaceutical records
- obtain healthcare user's medical status information
- listen actively
- prepare prescription labels
- promote inclusion
- interact with healthcare users
- check for medication expiry terms
- check information on prescriptions
- follow clinical guidelines
- follow procedures to control substances hazardous to health
- maintain adequate medication storage conditions
- process medical insurance claims
- transfer medication
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
Transversal competences
- deal with emergency care situations
- respond to changing situations in health care
- apply organisational techniques
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- provide health education
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences