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The outpatient pharmacist interprets physicians' orders, dispenses medications, and is responsible for drug availability and accountability, patient drug therapy, the informational needs of physicians and nurses for safer drug prescribing and administration, and the review of drug use to enhance patient outcomes.
Tour Information: 1 PM- 9:30 PM Monday-Friday WITH ROTATING WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS
Subject to change based on agency need.
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FUNCTIONS/SCOPE OF DUTIES:
The incumbent serves as an Outpatient Clinical Pharmacist, exercising full professional authority, knowledge, and judgment in the delivery of outpatient pharmacy services. Key responsibilities include training and rotating through the various tasks in the outpatient pharmacy, including the controlled substance vault, conducting inventory counts, and maintaining accurate inventory. Accurately interpreting physicians' orders, filling and dispensing medications, managing drug availability and accountability, and ensuring optimal patient drug therapy. The incumbent also addresses the informational needs of physicians and nurses on safe drug prescribing and administration, reviews drug use to enhance patient outcomes, and provides patient-specific therapeutic drug monitoring, including pharmacokinetic consultation and dosing.
The Clinical Pharmacist performs over 25% of their duties in a clinical, non-distributive capacity, providing pharmaceutical care in specialty areas such as Psychiatry, Medicine, Oncology, Surgery, IV Therapy, Long-term Care, Ambulatory Care, and Home-based Care. They ensure comprehensive care by communicating with healthcare providers about allergies, side effects, and other relevant information, both orally and in writing. The incumbent documents recommendations and interventions, reviews patients' medications and medical records to resolve medication-related issues, performs State Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) checks, and provides refill extensions and partial medication supplies when necessary. They also take health and medication histories, perform medication reconciliation, and assist in formulary management, including therapeutic substitutions, non-formulary reviews, and medication usage evaluations, conferences, and in-service programs, and it is desirable that they hold membership in a relevant pharmaceutical organization.
The incumbent ensures that Veterans receiving community care receive the same level of service as those using VA services. This includes maintaining compliance with VHA metrics and parameters for timely delivery of pharmacy consumables to Veterans and staying current with local and national changes in Outpatient Pharmacy directives and policies. They are responsible for maintaining professional relationships and collaboration with other service lines involved in providing VA services to Veterans. The position requires a working knowledge of the electronic health record (EHR), pharmacy policies and procedures, DEA regulations, and the inbound fax and electronic prescription process. The incumbent must possess exceptional customer service skills and the ability to follow verbal and written instructions. The Clinical Pharmacist is expected to maintain a high degree of accuracy, productivity, and attention to Veteran needs while adhering to the VA ICARE values of integrity, commitment, advocacy, respect, and excellence.
Clinical Functions:

1. Provides the full range of resources as a medication expert in drug information covering a wide range of therapeutic classes.
2. Reviews the patient's medication profile for therapeutic appropriateness and any possible drug allergies, incompatibilities, interactions, duplications, or compliance problems, and when necessary, advises other members of the interdisciplinary team to ensure safety.
3. Serves as the pharmacy representative on interdisciplinary teams when assigned. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, reviewing patient medication profiles, monitoring outcomes, and/or recommending alternative therapy. Must have appropriate knowledge of disease states and clinical pharmacology.
4. Provides medication counseling to patients, their families, and caregivers.
5. Serves as a drug information resource by providing up-to-date drug information to prescribers, other health care professionals, patients and caregivers.
6. Reports adverse drug events (ADE), near misses, and medication errors in alignment with the VA ADERS reporting program.
7. Implements P&T Committee policies, including therapeutic interchanges and automatic substitutions, to include appropriate patient and provider education
8. Adjudicates Community Care prescriptions, including assessing authorizations, determining eligibility, prescription evaluation (including appropriateness of prescription), nonformulary management, PDMP inquiries, and other relevant interventions.

Additional Functions include, but are not limited to:

• Screening prescriptions
• Maintaining adequate drug stock.
• Educating healthcare providers.
• Reviewing controlled substance destruction process.
• Ensuring compliance with Federal regulations.
• Provide professional and technical advice.
• Professionally treat customers.
• Guides, directs, orients, and trains employees, students, and residents.

VA Careers - Pharmacy: https://youtube.com/embed/Fn_ickNBEw
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 59963F
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Conditions of employment

• 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 a 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. 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.

Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Qualifications
Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met.
Basic Requirements:

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Education. (1) Graduate of an Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) accredited College or School of Pharmacy with a baccalaureate degree in pharmacy (BS Pharmacy) and/or a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D. degree. (NOTE: Prior to 2005, ACPE accredited both baccalaureate and Doctor of Pharmacy terminal degree programs. Today the sole degree is Doctor of Pharmacy).
• TRANSCRIPTS MUST BE SUBMITTED (2) Graduates of foreign pharmacy degree programs meet the educational requirement if the graduate can provide proof of achieving the Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Examination Commission (FPGEC) Certification, which includes passing the Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Examination (FPGEE) and the Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test (TOEFL iBT). YOU MUST SUBMIT A COPY OF FPGEC CERTIFICATION WITH THE APPLICATION PACKAGE.
• Licensure. Full, current, and unrestricted license to practice pharmacy in a State, Territory, Commonwealth of the United States (i.e., Puerto Rico), or the District of Columbia. The pharmacist must maintain current registration if this is a requirement for maintaining full, current, and unrestricted licensure. A pharmacist who has, or has ever had, any license(s) revoked, suspended, denied, restricted, limited, or issued/placed in a probationary status may be appointed only in accordance with the provisions in VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Chapter 3, section B, paragraph 16.
• YOU MUST SUBMIT A COPY OF CURRENT LICENSE WITH THE APPLICATION PACKAGE.
• English Language Proficiency. Pharmacists must be proficient in spoken and written English in accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(d) and 7407(d).

Grade Determinations: GS-12 Clinical Pharmacist (Full Performance Level)Experience or Education. I
n addition to the basic requirements, candidates must:
Have 1 year of experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-11), which includes Knowledge of Professional Pharmacy Practices, Residency accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and Fellowship Training Program accredited by the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP)OR 2. Completion of an ACPE-accredited Pharm.D. program.
Pharmacists assigned to this position must demonstrate the following KSAs:1. Knowledge of professional pharmacy practice.2. Ability to communicate orally and in writing to both patients and health care staff.3. Knowledge of laws, regulations, and accreditation standards related to the distribution and control of scheduled and non-scheduled drugs and pharmacy security.4. Skill in monitoring and assessing the outcome of drug therapies, including physical assessment and interpretation of laboratory and other diagnostic parameters.
Preferred Experience: Full, current, and unrestricted license to practice pharmacy in a State, Territory, Commonwealth of the United States (i.e., Puerto Rico), or the District of Columbia. The pharmacist must maintain current registration if it is required to maintain full, current, and unrestricted licensure.
References: VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G15, Licensed Pharmacist Qualification Standards http://vaww1.va.gov/ohrm/HRLibrary/Dir-Policy.htm The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-12.
Physical Requirements: Lifting/carrying up to 40lbs; Reaching above shoulder; Use of fingers; Both hands required; Walking (up to 1 hours); Standing (up to 2 hours); Repeated kneeling (up to 1 hour); Ability for rapid mental and muscular coordination simultaneously; Near vision correctable at 13" to 16"; Ability to distinguish colors; Ability to distinguish shades of colors; Hearing (aid permitted); mental and emotional stability.
Education
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Additional information
Receiving Service Credit for Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior work experience or military service experience. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.
During the application process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions.
This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive status.VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply. The health-related positions in VA are covered by Title 38, and are not covered by the Schedule A excepted appointment authority.If you are unable to apply online or need an alternate method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement.Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer. For more information about the Act and the complaint process, visit Human Resources and Administration/Operations, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP) at The Fair Chance Act.
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