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Pharmacist (Clinical Specialist)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
This Clinical Pharmacy Specialist position is in the Pharmacy Department at the VA Maine Healthcare System, located at the Augusta, ME location. This position is Full Time at 40 hours per week.
What You'll Do
- →The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist serves as a provider with prescribing privileges as outlined in the individual's scope of practice for the Clinical Pharmacy Practitioner (CPP) in Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) to provide comprehensive medication therapy management (MTM) specifically for patients with Substance Use Disorders (SUD).
- →Duties include, but are not limited to: Verify vaccines and infectious disease screening.
- →Provide medication education and implementing risk mitigation strategies.
- →Perform suicide risk assessment and safety planning.
- →Ensure referral of complex or unstable patients to higher level of care and/or additional behavioral interventions when needed.
- →Prescribe, monitor and adjust non-controlled adjunct medications as needed.
- →Evaluate the adequate treatment of co-morbid conditions that may impact treatment success and outcomes along with assessing for withdrawal symptoms; addressing or providing care management as needed and appropriate to scope of practice.
- →Coordinate, encourage and monitor involvement and participation in psychosocial and psychotherapy as indicated.
- →Communicate with team for next steps and coordination of care which may include ensuring needed appointments are scheduled, triaging unscheduled visits and facilitating urgent appointments with provider team members when necessary.
- →Provides CMM for complex patients with chronic diseases including, but not limited to, opioid use disorder, alcohol use disorder, and tobacco use disorder; orders and interprets labs or other needed test pertinent to CMM care and makes needed referrals.
- →May also treat co-morbid conditions (e.g. mental health conditions, pain conditions, etc.) in alignment with scope of practice.
- →Accepts urgent or same day patient visits including, but not limited to, patient medication review for polypharmacy, recent hospital or emergency department discharges, and co-managed care patients.
- →Determines if a referral to the physician is necessary when disease progression occurs, or adverse drug events require a higher level of treatment intervention.
- →Follows up via face to face, tele-health, e-consults, telephone, secure messaging and other modalities to provide patient care.
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.
- ✓May be subject to satisfactory completion of our credentialing process.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 5d0351e3-bf7e-4038-b521-bd794a64d886
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