Pharmacist- Clinical Specialist

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• 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.
• Graduates of foreign pharmacy degree programs meet the educational requirement if they 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).
• 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.
• English Language Proficiency: Pharmacists must be proficient in spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C. 7402(d) and 7407(d).

Experience

Experience:

• In addition to the GS-12 requirements, must have 1 year of experience equivalent to the next lower grade level.
• The clinical pharmacy specialist (CPS) functions at the highest level of clinical practice, works independently under their scope of practice as defined by the individual medical center to directly care for patients.
• A CPS 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.
• This includes - but is not limited to - the following: designing, implementing, assessing, monitoring and documenting 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.
• Monitors for therapeutic appropriateness of a patient's drug regimen, appropriateness of the route and method of administration, degree of patient compliance with the prescribed drug regimen, drug-drug, drug-food, drug-laboratory, or drug-disease interactions, clinical and pharmacokinetic laboratory data to evaluate the efficacy of drug therapy and to anticipate side effects, toxicity, or adverse effects, physical signs and clinical symptoms relevant to the patient's drug therapy.
• Performs continuous evaluation of prescribed medications to assure optimal drug therapy and positive patient centric outcomes.
• 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.

Duties

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.
• Maintains continuous evaluation of prescribed medications to assure optimal drug therapy and positive patient centric outcomes.
• 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 telework.

Virtual

This is not a virtual position.