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Pharmacy Supervisor (Procurement)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 9 days ago
About the Role
Manages all aspect of the procurement section of the pharmacy department. Serves as an authoritative information source and expert on medications/supplies and their availability, relative costs, quality of products with emphasis on patient outcomes, contract requirements, and legal requirements associated with procurement. Promotes compliance of both medications and supplies with hospital and national formulary throughout the Medical Center
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Pharmacy: https://youtube.com/embed/Fn_ickNBEws Duties include but not limited to: Plans, Organizes and Directs the Activities of the Procurement Section Ensuring ordering, purchasing, receiving, storing, inventory control and documentation complies with legal and regulatory requirements and meets customer needs.
- →Researching, interpreting, analyzing and applying pharmacy, supply, acquisition, Joint Commission, OIG, and other federal and VA directives, policies, guidelines, and regulations.
- →Developing performance standards to confirm compliance with regulatory and accrediting body requirements.
- →Identifying need for changes in priorities and taking action to implement such changes.
- →Working with CMOP to ensure items are properly marked to achieve VISN operational monitors.
- →Approving Official for 2237 and credit card purchases of the procurement staff.
- →Following VA process for specialty drug acquisition and coordinating with logistics and contracting for the ordering of the specialty medication.
- →Monitoring and analyzing ordering and distribution patterns to identify questionable circumstances, unusual trends and inappropriate ordering of pharmaceuticals and supplies not found on the national formulary.
- →Representing Pharmacy Service with a variety of Health Care System Services and functional area organizations.
- →Establishing, developing and maintaining effective working relationships with Physicians, health care professionals, other procurement, purchasing, and contracting professionals to optimize the utilization of rational and cost-effective drug therapy, with emphasis on legal and financial aspects of procurement.
- →Government Purchase Card Approving/Alternate Official Monitoring the cardholder to ensure that purchase card payment transactions are reconciled within 14 calendar days of receipt of IFCAP Purchase Card message.
- →Monitoring all assigned cardholders.
- →Certifying all procurements is legal and proper and that all items are received.
- →Certifying all transactions made by the cardholder, assuring applicable documentation are maintained and questioning any discrepancies.
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.
- ✓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
Job ID: a0aadbdb-d92e-4737-a42e-0e7abc706b52
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