ANZCAP Technician Specialty Areas of Practice
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Summary
This article lists and defines the 12 specialty areas of practice that ANZCAP Experienced and Advanced Pharmacy Technicians can be recognised in.
Specialty areas of practice
Pharmacy Technicians who achieve ANZCAP recognition at the Experienced or Advanced level may nominate one or two of 12 areas of specialty pharmacy practice to indicate the area/s in which they have attained their skills and experience. The specialty areas of practice and post-nominal abbreviations are described in the table below.
Specialty area | Post-nominals | Description |
Community Pharmacy | CommPharm | Pharmacy services in any community pharmacy setting, including primary healthcare, educating consumers on health promotion, disease prevention and the proper use of medicines, safe and legal supply of medications and advice on drug selection and usage to other health professionals. |
Generalist | Generalist | The broad experience of providing pharmacy care to a wide range of people in a variety of specialties and or across diverse healthcare settings. |
Medicines Management | MedsMgmt | The broad experience of providing indirect consumer pharmacy care, which may include service delivery, governance support, planning, education, leadership, and/or systems improvements and projects. |
Clinical Support | ClinSupport | The broad range of services which support clinical pharmacy practice by assisting with direct patient care. These services often go beyond traditional technician roles and require additional training or credentialling. Examples of technician clinical support roles & activities are outlined in the Advanced Pharmacy Australia Clinical Pharmacy Standards. |
Medicine Supply | MedSupply | Pharmacy services related to dispensing or distributing in a primary care, inpatient or outpatient setting, medicine procurement, formulary management or robotics and automation. |
Clinical Trials | ClinTrials | The provision of a clinical trial or investigational drugs pharmacy service to clinical trial participants in hospitals, and pharmacy services provided to research departments. |
Compounding | Compound. | Pharmacy services related to the sterile or non-sterile compounding of medicines, nutrition, chemotherapy and other products. |
Education | Edu. | The supervision, education, professional development or training of learners in academic pharmacy or pharmacy healthcare organisations. |
Leadership & Management | Lead&Mgmt | Pharmacy leadership and management undertaken by pharmacy owners, pharmacists-in-charge, directors of pharmacy, associate/deputy directors, team leaders or senior pharmacists in community pharmacy or public or private hospitals. Includes other influential roles in health departments and government, universities, advisory bodies or QUM organisations. |
Pharmacy Informatics | Informtcs | Pharmacy services dedicated to deploying, building, analysing and improving data and digital systems such as electronic medication records, e-prescribing, dispensing software, automated dispensing systems, smart pumps and pharmacy robots. |
Rural and Remote Health | RuralHlth | Pharmacy services to improve medicines use and healthcare for patients treated in remote, rural and regional areas in a range of settings including inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory care or primary care. |
If a Pharmacy Technician at the Advanced level wishes to change their specialty, they are required to submit a new Advanced portfolio in the new area. They are not required to submit a Pharm Tech - Experienced portfolio in the new area as their previous experience is considered sufficient.
If you can’t find the area you wish to attribute to your portfolio, consider your current role and what it involves – are there specialty areas that are listed that could fit what you do? Are you a generalist rather than practicing in one specific area?
The specialty areas of practice will be reviewed regularly.
Post-nominals
Pharmacy Technicians who achieve ANZCAP recognition are conferred a post-nominal corresponding with their level of achievement. Post-nominals allow pharmacy technicians a standardised way to share their ANZCAP recognition. Candidates who successfully achieve recognition as Advanced Pharmacy Technicians become fellows of ANZCAP.
Experienced Pharmacy Technician | ANZCAPTech – Exp. (specialty areas) |
Advanced Pharmacy Technician /Fellow of ANZCAP | FANZCAPTech (specialty areas) |
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