SIR30116 Certificate III in Community Pharmacy

Currenttraining.gov.au: current

Australia's national training register lists SIR30116 as current. It publishes no end date for the currency period.

Product type
Qualification
Training package
SIR — Retail Services Training Package
Currency period ends
no end date published
Latest release
Release 2 · 21 October 2020 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
SIR30112
Superseded by
nothing — no replacement listed

Where the register points next

training.gov.au points at nothing after SIR30116: it is the current product, and no replacement is listed.

This product is listed on the National Schedule of Training Product Development: under review by SkillsEQuipped Ltd trading as Service and Creative Skills Australia (Review of Community Pharmacy Qualifications), expected submission to the Assurance Body 1 October 2026. That is a submission date, not a supersession date: assurance, endorsement and publication follow, so a new version can only reach the register after it.

Source: National Schedule of Training Product Development, training.gov.au (© Commonwealth of Australia), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Excludes the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, trademarks and third-party material. View the Schedule. Schedule read on 25 August 2026 UTC.

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • SIR30112SIR30116not equivalent30 March 2016

    •Not Equivalent. •Number of units for completion reduced from 26 to 19 units; core reduced by 6 units; electives reduced by 1 unit. •New core unit addressing customer service and communication skills required by pharmacy assistants at this level replaces duplicative units. •Packaging rules simplified.

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What SIR30116 is made of

training.gov.au lists 35 units for SIR30116: 11 core and 24 elective. To complete it, the register publishes a rule of 11 core units plus 8 electives19 units in all.

Core units 11 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
HLTWHS001Participate in workplace health and safetycurrent
SIRCCCS002Provide and promote services to pharmacy customerscurrent
SIRCDIS001Assist customers with prescriptionscurrent
SIRCIND001Work effectively in a community pharmacycurrent
SIRCIND002Support the supply of Pharmacy Medicines and Pharmacist Only Medicinescurrent
SIRCINF001Use pharmacy practices for infection controlcurrent
SIRCPPA005Assist customers with cough and cold relief productscurrent
SIRCPPA006Assist customers with skin and anti-fungal productscurrent
SIRCPPA008Assist customers with products for gastro-intestinal conditionscurrent
SIRCPPA009Assist customers with allergy relief productscurrent
SIRCPPA010Assist customers with analgesic and anti-inflammatory productscurrent

Elective units 24 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBWOR301Organise personal work priorities and developmentnot current
CHCDIV001Work with diverse peoplecurrent
HLTAAP001Recognise healthy body systemscurrent
SHBBCCS001Advise on beauty products and servicesnot current
SHBBMUP002Design and apply make-upnot current
SHBBSKS001Pierce ear lobesnot current
SIRCDIS002Deliver medicines to customers outside the pharmacycurrent
SIRCDIS003Assist in dispensing prescriptionscurrent
SIRCPPA001Assist customers with vitamins, minerals and supplementscurrent
SIRCPPA002Assist customers with eye and ear care productscurrent
SIRCPPA003Assist customers with first aid productscurrent
SIRCPPA004Assist customers with oral care productscurrent
SIRCPPA007Assist customers with pregnancy and maternal health products and servicescurrent
SIRCPPA011Assist customers with baby and infant care productscurrent
SIRCPPA013Assist customers with smoking cessation productscurrent
SIRCPPA018Assist customers with women's and men's health care productscurrent
SIRRINV001Receive and handle retail stockcurrent
SIRRINV002Control stockcurrent
SIRRMER001Produce visual merchandise displayscurrent
SIRRRTF001Balance and secure point-of-sale terminalcurrent
SIRXCEG003Build customer relationships and loyaltycurrent
SIRXCEG008Manage disrespectful, aggressive or abusive customerscurrent
SIRXMKT001Support marketing and promotional activitiescurrent
SIRXSLS002Follow point-of-sale procedurescurrent

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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