How to immigrate and work in Denmark as a pharmacist?

Denmark visa options for foreign pharmacists

When you want to work in Denmark as a non-EU person, you need a work permit and a work visa. The standard visa that lets you work in Denmark as a pharmacist is the Denmark work visa.

If you want to work in Denmark as a pharmacist, you need a work permit and a work visa. As explained in the above section, the first step is to pass the recognition process and get the license to work as a pharmacist in Denmark. Then you must find a job with a Finnish employer as you must sign an employment contract with him/her. It’s part of the supporting documents to apply for a work permit.

The other Denmark visa that can help you in the process is the tourist visa or visitor visa. When you want to find a job in Denmark, you can visit the country to find one. If you are among the visa-waived countries, you can enter Denmark with your passport. If not, you can apply for a tourist visa and enter the country to find a job. But a tourist visa doesn’t let you work in Denmark. You just may have interviews and find a job. After finding a job, you must apply for a work permit and a work visa.

If you are studying for a pharmacy degree in Denmark, you do not need to pass the recognition process. You just need to apply for a license. The process is shorter and easier, but you have to study for a degree in Denmark. The visa option you need is a Denmark student visa.

You must get admission from a Danish university or education center with a related subject and gather the supporting documents to apply for a student visa.

Pharmacists’ Salaries in Denmark

Your salary as a pharmacist in Denmark is up to various factors:

• Your position
• Education
• Work experience
• The company you work with
• Tasks and responsibilities.
• Job title
• Etc.

The sources have mentioned different figures for your salary as a pharmacist in Denmark.

According to Salary Explorer, the average salary of a pharmacist in Denmark is about 53,200 DKK per month. This source says that while the lowest salary is about 26,600 DKK, the highest salary is about 82,500 DKK per month. This source says that a clinical pharmacist in Denmark gets about 50,800 DKK.

According to the Average Salary Survey, the average salary is about 492,704 DKK per year or $74.000.

The PayScale website says that the average salary is about 492.000 DKK per year.

According to World Salaries, the average annual salary of a pharmacist in Denmark is about 698,200 DKK, with an average monthly salary of about 58,183 DKK. While the lowest annual salary is about 320,500 DKK, with the lowest monthly salary of 26,708 DKK, the highest annual salary is about 1,112,300 DKK, with the highest monthly salary of 92,691 DKK.

Best cities to immigrate and work as a pharmacist in Denmark.

You might find a job offer as a pharmacist in every city in Denmark, and part of the process is demand and luck. You should keep looking and try to find a job, then work hard to persuade the employer to hire you. But you should know a few things about Danish cities. The more you know, the better you are able to find a position and work well in the conditions you want.

This is a list of the biggest cities in Denmark. There are always better job opportunities in large cities, and companies tend to be located in them. Also, you might find some industries in them:

1. Copenhagen
2. Aarhus
3. Odense
4. Aalborg
5. Esbjerg

If you prefer tourist cities popular with tourists and visitors, this list can help you to find the city you want:

1. Copenhagen
2. Aarhus
3. Odense
4. Aalborg
5. Frederiksberg

Job positions for foreign pharmacists who immigrate to Denmark.

There are various job positions you can end up working in them. This section brings you some of these job titles so that you can work as a foreign pharmacist moving to Denmark. When you see them on the websites, read the job description and determine if your work experience is related to them or not. Even if your experience or qualifications do not match, try to apply for it and send your resume. You might have a chance to get it, as Denmark needs skilled workers.

• Pharmacy clerk
• Pharmacy dispenser
• Pharmacy Assistant
• Pharmacy technician
• Chemotherapy pharmacist
•  Nuclear pharmacist

Permission to work as a pharmacist in Denmark.

If you want to work as a pharmacist and pharmacy technician, you do not need recognition, and you do not need to register with Danish officials. But if you want to work with the Danish community pharmacy or hospital pharmacy, you need permission to work as a foreign person. You must apply to the Danish Medicines Agency and get a license to work with them.

You have to send your degree and supporting documents to the Danish Medicines Agency and wait for the results of their decision. You either get your license or have to pass an adaptation period or an aptitude test to become qualified to work as a foreign pharmacist in Denmark.

How to immigrate to Denmark as a pharmacist?

The procedure you have to follow to immigrate to Denmark as a pharmacist is up to your nationality. People who get a degree in the EU/EEA countries and non-EU nationals have to follow a different procedure. This section will tell you how you have to apply and what documents you have to submit;

EU/EEA nationals.

If you are a national of the EU/EEA and you got your degree in one of these countries, you can work as a pharmacist in Denmark. You have permission to apply for a European Professional Card (EPC) and work in the country.

You need to apply to the Danish Medicine Agency and receive approval to work as a pharmacist. The procedure you have to follow is up to whether you want to work in Denmark for the long term or for the short term.

Work for the long term in Denmark.

If you want to work in a hospital or pharmacy in Denmark, you have to submit these documents to the Danish Medicine Agency;

A certified copy of your ID, birth certificate, date of birth, and citizenship.

• 2a. A certified copy of your original education certificate. It must indicate the “Certificate of Training as a Pharmacist.” It must be mentioned in Annex V, point 5.6.2.
• 2b. A certified copy of the attestation issued by the competent authorities in the country you got your degree if your education certificate does not correspond to the designations in Annex V.

Certificate of name change If you have ever changed your name and the name on the certificate is different from your current name.

Application from. You must complete this online application form and submit the above documents to it.

Translation. If your documents are not in the following languages, you must have them translated into one of them:

• English,
• Norwegian
• Swedish
• Danish

Not every person can translate the documents. The translator must be either the authority that issued the document or a certified translation office. The translation must be in the office’s heading with stamp, signature, and contact details. The original copy and the translation must be joined together.

What is a certified copy of documents?

All of your documents must be a certified copy. It means it must have been verified by one of the following options:

• embassy/consulate,
• police,
• Local authorities
• notary public
• the authority that issued the document

The authority that verifies the copy must verify with a stamp and signature that the copy is a verified copy of the original document. Remember that private people cannot verify the documents.

You must complete the online application form and submit the documents. Danish Medicines Agency will assess your application and decide whether you can work as a pharmacist in Denmark or not. If their answer is positive, they will inform you of the results and further steps you have to take. If you do not have to take any measures, they will grant your license so you can begin working as a pharmacist in Denmark.

The pharmacist from the non-EU/EEA countries who immigrate to Denmark.

If you are a pharmacist in a non-EU/EEA country and you want to immigrate to Denmark, you must follow this procedure. Remember that the procedure is different for EU and non-EU nationals.

Gathering the documents to immigrate to Denmark as a pharmacist

The first step is to gather the supporting documents and send them to the Danish Medicines Agency to assess and decide whether you are eligible to work as a pharmacist in Denmark or not.

1. A copy of your passport or ID card or a document proving your nationality.
2. Application letter.
3. If you have changed your name, submit the related documents before or after it.
4. CV/Resume.
5. A certificate indicating that you have completed a pharmacy degree.
6. A certificate indicating that you have the right to work as a pharmacist in your home country. It must be issued from the competent authority that grants the right to work as a pharmacist in your home country. It cannot be older than 3 months ago at the time of application.
7. A list of the courses you have passed in the university you got your degree. It must indicate the lesson you studied in each course.
8. Your syllabus or study program. A PDF file of the topics that were covered in each of your courses.
9. Danish language proficiency certificate. You need a Danish 3/FVU or any other document that says you have compelled a Danish 3 language level.
10. Application from. You must complete this online application form and submit the scanned form with the above documents.
11. Translation. If your documents are not in the following languages, you must have them translated into one of them:

• English,
• Norwegian
• Swedish
• Danish

All of your documents must be a certified copy. It means it must have been verified by one of the following options:

• embassy/consulate,
• police,
• Local authorities
• notary public
• the authority that issued the document

The authority that verifies the copy must verify with a stamp and signature that the copy is a verified copy of the original document. Remember that private people cannot verify the documents.

After you complete the application form and submit the documents, Danish officials will email and inform you that the application is complete. If it’s complete, they will send you a case number. You can use it when asking questions from Danish Medicines Agency about your application. You mention the number of your questions so the officials will answer you quickly and access it easily.

If one of your documents is missing or there is something wrong with it, they will inform you to fix it. You either have not submitted one of the documents, one piece is not a certified copy, or the translation into English or Danish is wrong. You have to send the right form of the documents through the application form provided in the above section.

Processing of pharmacist application by Danish official.

Danish officials will begin processing your application when they receive a complete list of the supporting documents mentioned in the above section. The average processing time is about 2-3 months, but it will begin only after you submit a full list of the documents. They might ask for further documents and inform you of it’s so.

You might have to pass one or two stages before you get your license to work as a pharmacist in Denmark. The stages you have to follow depend on the Danish officials’ decision. These are the stages you might have to follow:

1. Taking an internship in Denmark.
2. Taking an aptitude test.

Danish College of Pharmacy Technicians offers the above two stages you might have to follow.

Results of the pharmacist recognition process with Danish officials.

If you do not need to take an internship or an aptitude test, you will receive a license to work as a pharmacist in Denmark.

If you have to take an internship or the aptitude test, a Danish official will inform you of the instructions to take them. You will receive your license after taking the internship and test.

Negative Recognition results and complaints to the Danish officials.

If the answer to the recognition is negative and Danish officials decide that you are not eligible to work as a pharmacist in Denmark, you can complain about their decision. To do so, you must file a complaint with the Ministry of Health. They will assess your complaint and the processing of your documents by the Danish official to make sure the standards have been met or not.

This is their address. This is the email you need to send them to complain.

Ministry of the Interior and Health of Denmark

Slotsholmsgade 10-12

1216 Copenhagen K

Mail: [email protected]

Phone: +45 7226 9000

Look for a job offer in Denmark as a pharmacist.

After you get your license to work as a pharmacist in Denmark, you can begin to look for a job offer. You must find a job offer or an employer willing to hire you as a foreign person.

If you are an EU national, you do not need a permit to work in Denmark. But you need permission to work as a non-EU/EEA national. Every non-EU person or pharmacist who wants to work in Denmark needs a work permit. You cannot or may not apply for a work permit on your own as a pharmacist. You need a Danish employer to apply together and submit the requirements or supporting documents.

You can use various ways to find a job as a parasite in Denmark. The first one that everyone can use is to look for a position through the websites that advertise such job positions. This is a list of these websites:

• OFiR
• Jobindex
• Jobnet
• Stepstone
• IT Jobs
• Public Sector Jobs

The foreign pharmacist must prepare a resume and apply for the position on these websites. You’d better work on your resume and make it perfect to catch the employer’s eye. You should also indicate that you have a license to work as a pharmacist in Denmark.

Apply for a Denamkr work permit and work visa.

The other way you can use to find a job in Denmark as a pharmacist is to get assistance from recruiters or employment companies. Such companies match or connect employees and employers. In your case, they connect you, as a pharmacist, to the companies that need your skills. If you are looking for such companies, this is a list of them:

• Hudson
• Global Search
• Nigel Wright Group
• Temp Team
• Adecco Denmark
• JKS
• Human Power

It’s your responsibility to reach them and determine if they can help you or not. You should find out if you can get along with them or not.

After you find the job, you must sign an employment contract with the Finnish employer. It’s part of the supporting documents.

Apply for a Denmark work permit and a work visa.

At this stage, you can apply for a Denmark work permit and work visa. A work permit is the authorization to work in the country as a foreign person, and a work visa is the permission to enter Denmark. First, you must apply for a work permit then you can apply for a work visa.

You must complete the online application form on the Enter the Denmark service website and submit the scanned form of documents.

You must visit the local Finnish embassy/consulate to submit the original form of supporting documents and your biometrics.

There is a list of supporting documents that you must gather and submit to the embassy and the website. You can find them in the Visa Library article.

If you want to learn how to apply for and receive a Denmark work permit and a work visa, visit the Visa Library article or watch the video we have prepared on our YouTube channel.

After you receive your work permit and work visa, you can enter Denmark and begin your work.

Let’s sum up…

You legend how to immigrate and work in Denmark as a pharmacist through this age of the Visa Library. You learned how to pass the recognition process and get the license to work as a pharmacist in Denmark. Moreover, you got answers to some of your questions. This is your ultimate guide to becoming a pharmacist in Denmark.

If you have questions, write them down in the comment section. The Visa Library team will answer them.

Frequently asked questions about immigration to Denmark as a pharmacist