Pharmacy and Optical Dispensing Assistants
What they do most days?
Carries out sales transaction, wraps and packages goods.
Relays information to customers under the direction of pharmacist and opticians or optometrists.
Arranges displays of merchandise.
Checks stock levels, rotates stock, orders new stock from supplying companies and ensures that products are stored appropriately.
Maintains records of prescriptions received and drugs issued.
Checks received prescriptions for legality and accuracy and confirms patients’ or customers’ details.
Hard Skills
Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.
Soft Skills
Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.