Pharmacy Assistant
Carry out administrative tasks in a pharmacy.
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What's it like to be a Pharmacy Assistant?
Pharmacy Assistants provide administrative support to Pharmacists. They handle the non-technical side of pharmacy operations, which includes clerical duties. They typically organise files and inventory, answer phone calls, and act as cashiers. In retail pharmacies, they may be tasked to take on a customer-facing role by selling over-the-counter products. In hospitals or clinics, Pharmacy Assistants may deliver medicines to patients and healthcare professionals.
Tasks and duties
- Assisting pharmacists in managing prescriptions.
- Greeting customers.
- Referring medication-related questions to pharmacists.
- Maintaining and ordering inventory.
- Receiving, unloading, arranging and keeping records of deliveries.
- Putting labels on medicines.
- Answering emails, messages and phone calls.
- Ensuring the neatness and cleanliness of the workspace.
A general knowledge in drug terms and pharmacy maths is useful for Pharmacy Assistants. This is so they can answer client queries on medication costs, drug types and names, and other basic information. Aside from strong interpersonal and communication skills, Pharmacy Assistants also need to be organised in arranging product displays, facilitating deliveries and handling sales transactions.
How to become a Pharmacy Assistant
Even though Pharmacy Assistants mainly perform administrative and clerical duties, they still need to be educated in the basic uses and effects of medicines.
- Complete at least a diploma course in pharmacy. Make sure that the course is accredited by the Pharmacy Board and the Ministry of Health in Malaysia. The course takes three years to finish.
- Get work experience through an internship while studying. You can also volunteer in a hospital or a healthcare facility. Some employers may also value experience in customer service and administrative work.
- Be proficient in written and spoken English, Mandarin, and Bahasa Malaysia.
- You may advance your career by becoming a pharmacy technician, who has more medical responsibilities. Expand your options by finishing a bachelor degree in pharmacy, which can help you become a pharmacist.
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Latest Pharmacy Assistant reviews
Jun 2023
Reviewer's Qualification
Diploma of Pharmacy
Experience
1 – 4 years
Organisation size
Large (200+ employees)
The good things
The good things
1. Structured work task. Since you will work in shift and pharmacy have workflow everyone will be do their own job based on the schedule.
2. Continue career development. You have a ch...
The challenges
Since pharmacy is the last department patient will check in, there are probably a lot of issues such as prescription error, billing issues or patients own issues such as they refused some medication o...
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