This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to collect and verify customer prescription information; lodge scripts for dispensing; and return dispensed prescription items to customers on behalf of the dispensing pharmacist.

This unit applies to pharmacy and dispensary assistants working in community pharmacies. When supplying prescribed medications they work under the direct supervision of a pharmacist.

This unit incorporates the requirement for pharmacy assistants to comply with federal, state and territory law and Pharmacy Board of Australia Guidelines for supplying scheduled Pharmacy Medicines (S2) and Pharmacist Only Medicines (S3). At the time of publication, they are not, however, required to hold an occupational licence or to be certified as competent in this unit to supply scheduled medicines.