Pharmaceutical technicians and assistants perform a variety of tasks associated with dispensing medicinal products under the guidance of a pharmacist or other health professional.
Skill level:
Skilled
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- Salary range for the majority of workers in Pharmaceutical technicians and assistants - from R13 030 to R35 025 per month - 2025.
- A Pharmaceutical technicians and assistants typically earns between R13 030 and R18 304 net per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between R17 911 and R25 785 per month for a working week of 45 hours.
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- A Pharmacy Technician in human health and social work activities in scale 5 with 5 years or more experience earned minimum R11 002,00 and maximum R34 791,00 per month in 2019.
Duties and tasks
- Preparing medications and other pharmaceutical compounds under the guidance of a pharmacist or other health professional
- Dispensing medicines and drugs to clients and giving written and oral instructions on their use, as prescribed by medical doctors, veterinarians or other health porfessionals
- Receiving prescriptions or refill requests from health professionals and verifying that information is complete and accurate according to medical record-keeping standards
- Maintaining proper storage and security conditions for drugs
- Filling and labelling containers with prescribed medications
- Assisting clients by answering questions, locating items or referring them to a pharmacist for medication information
- Pricing and filing prescriptions that have been filled and establishing and maintaining patient records, including lists of medications taken by individual patients
- Ordering, labelling, and counting stock of medications, chemicals and supplies, and entering inventory data into record-keeping systems
- Cleaning and preparing equipment and containers used to prepare and dispense medicines and pharmaceutical compounds
