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OSCA 263432Updated 2026-01-29
Hospital Pharmacist
National shortage level: Medium
ANZSCO 251511OSCA 263432
Snapshot
Median pay: AUD 80k
Weekly earnings: AUD 1550
Salary range: AUD 72k-AUD 89k
Job ads trend: Not listed
Time to hire: Varies
Visa pathways: Check eligibility
State distribution
28.6%
VIC
24.1%
QLD
23.3%
NSW
Education mix
60.4%
bachelor degree
35.8%
Post graduate
1%
year 12
Role overview
Hospital Pharmacists prepare and dispense pharmaceuticals, drugs and medicines in a hospital pharmacy.
What you do
- • Receives prescriptions, checks patients' medicine histories, and ensures optimal dosage and methods of administration and drug compatibility before dispensing.
- • Prepares or supervises the preparation and labelling of liquid medicines, ointments, powders, tablets and other medications to fill prescriptions.
- • Advises patients on drug incompatibility and contra-indications.
Core skills
Credentials & pathway
- Recommended level: bachelor degree (60.4%)
Recent job ads
No ads listed yet.
Tasks
- • Advises patients on drug incompatibility and contra-indications.
- • Maintains prescription files and records issue of narcotics, poisons and habit-forming drugs.
- • Prepares or supervises the preparation and labelling of liquid medicines, ointments, powders, tablets and other medications to fill prescriptions.
Earnings
Weekly median: AUD 1550
Annual median: AUD 80k
Range: AUD 72k-AUD 89k