Pharmacist (Clinical Specialist)

Job Title

Clinical Pharmacy Practitioner (CPP), Mental Health & Integrated Care Program (MHICM)

The Clinical Pharmacy Practitioner (CPP), Mental Health & Integrated Care Program (MHICM), utilizes expertise in the area of mental health to provide medication management to optimize patient care. The CPP utilizes specialized expertise in the area of mental health aligning with the goals and objectives of medicine and specialty services to optimize patient care and is responsible for oversight of all clinical pharmacy activities and consultations in outpatient mental health care settings for patients in whom they are assigned.

Duties include but not limited to:

• Attends and participates in team meetings, conferences, and other meetings as required for the purpose of making recommendations and providing consultation in all Pharmacy-related matters to mental health for Mental Health Service Line.
• Directly assists other providers in rational medication selection by providing written and/or verbal consultation.
• Responsible for planning, developing, and maintaining effective clinical pharmacy programs by implementing rational cost-effective drug therapy to improve patient outcomes within medicine and specialty services.
• Provides assistance in development of policies as requested.
• Participates in developing criteria for drug utilization evaluations, data collection, trending reports, and other quality assurance activities as required to ensure appropriate and safe drug utilization.
• Assists in initiation of medication use improvement strategies including development of quick order sets, clinical reminders, patient/provider education handouts, and development and implementation of pharmacotherapy protocols.
• Performs data analysis to measure performance, trend changes, and implement quality improvement strategies.
• Serves as liaison to pharmacy service for Outpatient Mental Health to medicine and specialty services, serving as the local VAMC subject matter expert in services in the broad area of advanced pharmacotherapy, with special emphasis on Mental Health.
• Evaluates the risk-benefit ratio of various therapeutic alternatives, develops a therapeutic plan utilizing the most efficacious, least toxic and most economical pharmacological treatment modalities available, and communicates these plans to the patients' physician.
• Determines if a referral to a physician is necessary when disease progression occurs, or adverse drug events require a higher level of treatment intervention.

Work Schedule: Full-Time, Based on the needs of the service.

Telework: Ad-Hoc

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 71838F

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

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Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized