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Clinical Pharmacist - Community Care
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 3 days ago
About the Role
The pharmacist will ensure efficient and timely workload completion of community care prescriptions and act as a liaison with our community care partners to resolve problems as they arise with this program. This position requires a thorough knowledge of the electronic health record, outpatient pharmacy, and the VA national formulary.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Pharmacy: https://youtube.com/embed/Fn_ickNBEws Major duties include but are not limited to: Clinical Practice: Provides care based on physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the age of the patients served in the assigned areas (i.e., adult and geriatric populations).
- →This entails a knowledge of human growth and development, ability to assess and interpret age specific data and provide age specific care, communication skills necessary to interpret age specific responses to treatment and ability to involve family/ significant others in decision making related to plan of care.
- →The knowledge, abilities, and skills needed to provide such care will be refined through continuing education, training and experience.
- →This position requires an especially strong emphasis in clinical skill covering a variety of disciplines.
- →Coordinates with facility clinicians, when needed, for the appropriate care of mutual patients.
- →Responsible for helping maintain clinical pharmacy services for the outpatient CCNRx areas.
- →Duties include, but are not limited to, VA formulary, criteria for use, prior authorization drug request (PADR) and utilization.
- →The CCNRx/Outpatient Pharmacist will document significant findings, interventions and recommendations in the electronic health record using consults and templated notes.
- →Documentation to be completed within established timeframes and discontinuing the same if no action taken within established timeframes.
- →Responsible for assisting with the management of therapeutic regimens upon request by providing recommendations for appropriate medication, diagnostic studies/tests, progress notes, etc., in the patient's chart in accordance with established clinical privileges.
- →The CCNRx/Outpatient Pharmacist is responsible for detection and prevention of drug-drug and drug-nutrient interactions.
- →The incumbent is also responsible for detection of potential drug interactions with laboratory tests and providing appropriate interpretations/alternatives.
- →Reviews and evaluates requests for both Community Care and VA non-formulary and restricted drug requests for appropriateness and compliance with established criteria where applicable.
- →Clinical Education: Creates an environment to stimulate, encourage and support the participation of pharmacy personnel in providing drug information to the hospital staff and other facilities as deemed appropriate.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
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