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Pharmacist -Clinical Specialist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 53 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 (1 to 5 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
- →Participates not only in direct patient care activities alongside other service members but also takes on quality improvement roles and responsibilities.
- →Additionally, the CPP will assist, when possible, with the future implementation of an antithrombotic stewardship model.
- →Collaborates with the Anticoagulation Service Program Manager (ASPM), who manages daily clinic workload and represents the anticoagulation and thrombosis service to facility-wide, internal, and external stakeholders.
- →Participates in anticoagulation data collection when possible and engages in quality assurance activities as required to ensure the appropriate and safe use of antithrombotic medications;(b) represent SLC HCS in meetings and symposiums when time permits; and (c) develop and monitor patients' therapy in a direct patient care role.
- →Assists providers with evidence-based medication selection by offering written and/or verbal consultations, ensuring that all prescriptions and actions meet proper eligibility criteria and comply with National Formulary and Non-Formulary procedures.
- →This includes adherence to all national directives,VISN-19 guidelines, local policies, and standard operating procedures.
- →Knowledgeable about the National Patient Safety Goal for Anticoagulant Therapy(NPSG.03.05.01), National Standards for Anticoagulation Management, Guidelines for Safe Medication Use in Perioperative and Procedural Settings, VA quality metrics (e.g., TTR), and Pharmacy Benefits Management initiatives can integrate these standards into practice.
- →Interfaces with colleagues, providers, and patients (as needed) for designing and in an advisory capacity for managing veterans' treatment regimen to achieve optimization of cost-effective drug therapy.
- →Monitors and assesses therapeutic and adverse effects of drug therapy (including drug interactions) through selection and evaluation of physical and laboratory parameters, and makes referrals when appropriate.
- →Modifies therapeutic regimen as needed following patient-specific presentations of signs and symptoms, laboratory values, and diagnoses.
- →Documents workload encounter data prior to signing patient care notes.
- →It is critical that patient care notes, at a minimum, include items such as medical problems, disease states, analysis of laboratory data, etc., that necessitate starting, changing, holding, and discontinuing medications and are part of clinical decision-making.
- →Provides highly specialized education and training support to other professional services in the broad area of anticoagulation and thrombosis stewardship.
- →Interviews patients (including transition of care and/or traveling veteran) when necessary for taking medication history and for formulating a pharmaceutical care plan based on disease and discharges summaries as needed.
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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