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Pharmacy Technician
OFO Code: 321301
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 321301
- Occupation
- Pharmacy Technician
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- TECHNICIANS AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 3213 · Pharmaceutical Technicians and Assistants
Official description
Pharmaceutical technicians and assistants perform a variety of tasks associated with dispensing medicinal products under the guidance of a pharmacist or other health professional.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Dispensary Technician, Pharmacist Technician, Pharmacy Technician - Inactive, Pharmacy Dispensing Technician, Pharmaceutical Assistant, Pharmaceutical Technician
- Maintaining proper storage and security conditions for drugs
- Dispensing medicines and drugs to clients and giving written and oral instructions on their use, as prescribed by medical doctors, veterinarians or other health professionals
- Filling and labelling containers with prescribed medications
- Assisting clients by answering questions, locating items or referring them to a pharmacist for medication information
- Preparing medications and other pharmaceutical compounds under the guidance of a pharmacist or other health professional
- Cleaning and preparing equipment and containers used to prepare and dispense medicines and pharmaceutical compounds
- Ordering, labelling, and counting stock of medications, chemicals, and supplies, and entering inventory data into records-keeping systems
- Pricing and filing prescriptions that have been filled and establish and maintaining patient records, including lists of medications taken by individual patients
- Receiving prescriptions or refill requests from health professionals and verifying that information is complete and accurate according to medical records keeping standards
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.