Pharmacist (Clinical Specialist)

GS-13 Pharmacy (Clinical Specialist)

Major duties include but not limited to:

• Monitors and manages drug therapy for veterans including but not limited to the following chronic disease states: hypertension, dyslipidemia, CVD, and heart failure to achieve optimal outcomes as measured by VHA Clinical Performance Measures or provider guidance.
• Operates independently under a defined scope of practice to initiate, change, and discontinue prescription and OTC medications in an outpatient clinical pharmacy practice setting. In collaboration with the appropriate provider, provides additional advanced medication services outside of defined clinical scope without need for provider co-signature and excluding controlled substances.
• Completes drug adherence assessment and assists the provider with medication management challenges as needed.
• Improves clinical care to veterans through interventions to reduce the frequency of drug related problems and adverse drug events.
• Provides close follow-up medication management care via telephone or other electronic mechanism (i.e. MyHealtheVet, E-mail, etc.) per clinic policy.

Customer Satisfaction:

• Provide veteran and staff education/training regarding the safe and effective use of medications.
• Be a point of contact for veteran and clinic staff in various pharmacy related areas. Activities can be broad and cover the entire spectrum of pharmacy services.
• Ensures that veterans have their pharmaceutical needs met in a timely and patient centric manner.
• Supports the clinic staff and organization processes by promoting harmonious relationships within the work environment.
• Participates in team-based activities that support colleague esprit de corps.

Administrative/Supervision:

• Participates in clinical pharmacy activities to ensure they have a positive impact on the quality and appropriateness of drug usage, from a cost and patient outcome perspective.
• Accepts and implements special assignments from the Chief, Pharmacy Service consisting of data collection and educational activities or other duties as assigned.
• Participates in evaluation of professional pertinence reviews of peer performance as assigned by Chief, Pharmacy Service or designee such as the Associate Chief, Pharmacy, Clinical Services.
• Serves as a consultant and active participant in the medication use evaluation process. Assist in developing medication use criteria as well as organizing, conducting and coordinating medication use studies.

Program Support:

• Maintain extensive contact with providers to minimize and/or quickly resolve medication-related problems and improve the value of pharmaceutical services provided.
• Assists in developing and updating various policies and operational procedures that affect pharmaceutical care.

Education:

• Assists in the training of pharmacy employees, American Society of Health Care Pharmacist (ASHP) accredited residents and serves as a preceptor for Doctor of Pharmacy students as assigned.
• Participates in all aspects of training such as conducting on-the-job training, conducting in-services, and monitoring performance.
• Educates medical staff regarding formulary management, approved clinical guidelines and cost-efficient use of drugs.

Research:

• Integrates research protocol criteria and study medication use into the patient pharmaceutical care dispensing procedures.
• Ensures that patients participating in drug studies have their medication needs met in a timely cost efficient manner.
• Monitors drug use for compliance with the formulary, with particular respect to cost-effective management of use of available therapeutic agents and to make recommendations for system-wide interventions when deemed necessary to assure optima usage of drug resources.

Work Schedule: 8:00am-4:30pm, Monday - Friday

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases.

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year).

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework: Not eligible for routine/scheduled telework; ad hoc telework eligible as outlined per VHA policy.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 60982F

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.