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Pharmacist(Clinical Spec)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
This position is located within the Birmingham VA Clinic (Annex) to serve as the PMOP (Pain Management, Opioid Safety, and PDMP) program manager. This role ensures compliance with national policies, clinical guidelines, and regulatory requirements related to safe opioid prescribing, overdose prevention and drug utilization while maintaining a scope of practice to provide direct patient care.
What You'll Do
- →Supporting a Pain Committee and workgroups that include stakeholders from across the facility as indicated.
- →Developing processes/procedures to ensure implementation and compliance with national policy related to pain management, opioid safety and risk mitigation strategies, Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND), management of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), initiatives in compliance with national policy, clinical practice guidelines, and regulatory requirements.
- →Participates in developing criteria for drug utilization evaluations, data collection, trending reports, and other quality assurance activities as required ensuring appropriate and safe drug utilization.
- →Supporting review of community provider opioid prescribing practices.
- →Supporting OSI reviews, data-based risk reviews for opioid-exposed patients and other interdisciplinary pain care forums.
- →Supporting and tracking full implementation of the Stepped Care Model for Pain Management (SCM-PM).
- →Facilitating implementation of the OUD stepped care model within the facility, in particular for Step 1 of the Stepped Care for Opioid Use Disorder Train-the Trainer (SCOUTT) program expansion, e.g., within PMTs/Pain Clinics.
- →Supporting access to integrative health modalities and facilitating veteran outreach events for pain management.
- →Identifying opioid safety improvement and risk mitigation opportunities and developing strategic planning efforts inclusive of, but not limited to PDMP compliance, urine drug screening, and establishing population management processes for targeted risk mitigation.
- →Evaluating acute pain care prescribing and processes at the facility.
- →Tracking dashboards regarding pain management, opioid safety, and PDMP, including key parameters such as access, productivity, workload, and staffing.
- →Measuring and reporting quality and compliance outcomes related to pain management, opioid safety, and PDMP.
- →Partnering with Academic Detailing and other stakeholders to monitor and disseminate best practices.
- →Participates in VISN Pain Committee/Community of Practice meetings and other VISN directed activities as 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
Job ID: 883765d2-1eee-4e8e-bf24-4392f48d3014
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