Skills
Select one or more knowledge areas or skills to find related occupations.
0 skills selected
Overview
Specialist pharmacist work applies advanced pharmacy knowledge in hospital pharmacy or pharmaceutical-industry settings, where medicines, patient treatment, product information and specialist advice need careful handling.
In job descriptions, look for clinical pharmacy, medicine reviews, pharmaceutical services, hospital pharmacy, drug safety, product documentation, analytical development, regulatory work and advice to healthcare teams.
Explore this occupation
Open in Job ExplorerWork context
Specialist pharmacists work in settings where medicines need advanced professional judgement, often hospital pharmacy, clinical services or pharmaceutical companies. The role can connect medication use, product information, patient treatment questions, analytical development and advice to healthcare or industry teams.
Skills and specializations
Useful strengths include clinical pharmacy, medicine reviews, pharmacology, drug safety, product documentation, analytical development, regulatory affairs and clear counselling. The specialist focus may sit in hospital treatment support, pharmaceutical services, product development, quality work or medicine information.
Salary context
Salary context depends on where the specialist judgement is used. Hospital pharmacy advice, responsibility for complex medicine reviews, analytical development, regulatory documentation, product safety or leadership of pharmacy services can place the role at different levels of accountability.
Career paths
Experience can lead toward clinical pharmacy leadership, medicines information, hospital pharmacy coordination, regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, analytical development, product management or advisory roles linked to therapy areas. Evidence-based medicine knowledge and precise documentation support those moves.
Good to know
Read adverts for the pharmacy setting and product scope. Check whether the job is patient-facing, industry-facing or internal advisory work, and whether it mentions clinical rounds, medicine safety, product dossiers, analytical methods, regulations or hospital formulary support.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
Map overview
Click the map to search for specialist pharmacist jobs.
— Jobs total — Countries with jobs
O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 1
Pharmacists
29-1051.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
AltoTrail preserves the source relationship type. The order is technical and does not show which occupation is best, most relevant or recommended.
AltoTrail validates and presents the source relationships without adding ranking or recommendation semantics.
Alternative labels
Occupation group
pharmacist (2262.1)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/8db28ebf-8818-4639-aa49-30324901836e |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 2262.1.2 |
| ISCO group | 2262 |
| Concept type | Occupation |