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Pharmacist (Clinical Spec) - PACT
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 18 days ago
About the Role
This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application. Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply.
What You'll Do
- →The Clinical Pharmacy Practitioner (CPP) in Ambulatory Care functions at the highest level of clinical pharmacy.
- →Under an advanced scope of practice, the CPP works independently, providing expertise and direct patient care.
- →The CPP is responsible for the clinical and program management of pharmacy services in the Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT).
- →Duties but not limited to: CPP has full responsibility to develop necessary services such as physician consultation, patient monitoring, patient counseling and medication management clinics within the PACT setting.
- →Serves as a physician extender/independent practitioner in a clinic setting, requiring the highest level of pharmacist clinical privileges with minimal supervision.
- →Directly assists clinicians in rational drug selection by providing written and/or verbal consultation Actively participates as a member of the PACT team to assist in monitoring patient's therapy as directly related to pharmaceutical care.
- →Assures that all prescriptions and actions meet proper eligibility criteria on a patient specific basis and the National Formulary and Non-Formulary procedures are followed; this includes adherence to all national, VISN and local criteria for use treatment algorithms and guidelines.
- →Participates in developing criteria for use, medication use evaluations, data collection for pertinent reports, and other quality assurance activities, as required, to ensure appropriate and safe drug utilization.
- →CPS manages pharmacotherapy to ensure that treatment guidelines and appropriate medication monitoring recommendations are being followed, in addition to adherence to National Formulary and local policy.
- →Clinical Pharmacy Specialist will independently manage pharmacotherapy patients not at disease-state goal in his/her pharmacotherapy clinic, improving the clinic system efficiency and quality Fully utilizes the highest level of clinical privileges for CPP to manage assigned patients.
- →Interfaces with providers, including physicians, PAs, ARNPs in the design of the veteran's treatment regimen to achieve optimization of rational and cost-effective drug therapy.
- →Serves as an authoritative information source on drugs and their utilization in therapy, with special emphasis on medications used in treatment of the assigned patients.
- →Establishes and expands the patient database through interpreting the drug history, medical history, allergies/adverse drug events, physical examination and ongoing patient specific monitoring of therapy, with documentation in the electronic medical record.
- →Monitors and assesses therapeutic and adverse effects of drug therapy (including drug interactions) through selection and evaluation of patient-specific and laboratory parameters.
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 dentification 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.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
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