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Pharmacist- Clinical Specialist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 62 days ago
About the Role
The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist is a licensed professional with advanced knowledge and proficiency in pharmacy practice including pharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and pharmacotherapeutics. The specialist functions at an advanced level of clinical practice as a pharmacotherapy specialist for the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) and is responsible for analyzing real and potential drug-related medical problems and implementing corrective action.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include, but are not limited to: The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist plays a defined role in budgetary execution and serves as a pharmacotherapy specialist who functions to initiate, modify or discontinue medication therapy and serves as a consultant for intensive medication therapy management services.
- →Designs, implements, assesses, monitors and documents therapeutic plans utilizing the most effective, least toxic and most economical medication treatments.
- →Provides appropriate selection of drug therapy based upon the pharmaceutical principles of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; monitoring for efficacy, side effects and clinical outcome; and advises other health care providers as appropriate.
- →Provides patient-specific therapeutic drug monitoring and communicates relevant findings and/or recommendations to other health care providers in charge of the patient both orally and in writing.
- →Provides medication counseling to patients.
- →Completes health and medication histories including patient interviews.
- →Serves as a drug information resource and consultant for intensive medication therapy management services by providing. up-to-date drug information to prescribers, other health care professionals, patients and caregivers.
- →Other assigned duties.
- →Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 8 hour tour including rotating weekends, evenings/nights and holidays based on needs of service.
- →Telework: Ad-Hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
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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