Service Chief - Pharmacy

Veterans Health Administration; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Veterans Health Administration in Nashville is seeking a pharmacist for a full-time, temporary promotion opportunity (up to 365 days) with eligibility for supervisory approval. The role requires ACPE-accredited education, a valid US pharmacy license, and experience managing complex hospital pharmacy services across multiple settings.

Candidates should have advanced clinical program development experience and will participate in national-level committees or advisory groups, with potential

Qualifications

• Must be a graduate of ACPE-accredited College/School of Pharmacy with BS Pharmacy or Pharm.D.
• Full, current, unrestricted license to practice pharmacy in US or applicable territory.
• Experience equivalent to GS-13 with multiple pharmacy practice settings and prescriptive privileges (as applicable).

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex hospital-based pharmacy program across multiple practice settings.
• Provide dispensing and clinical services to various sites (e.g., ambulatory care, long-term care, etc.).
• Develop advanced clinical pharmacy programs with prescriptive authority where applicable.
• Participate in committees/advisory groups at VISN and national levels.

Skills

Pharmacy licensure

Clinical pharmacy

Regulatory compliance

Team leadership

Education

Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D. or BS Pharmacy)

FPGEC certification (foreign grads)

Job description

***FULL-TIME. DETAIL/TEMPORARY PROMOTION OPPORTUNITY - up to 365 days **

******Supervisory Approval - Supervisory approval must be obtained prior to expressing interest in this opportunity.******

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: 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. Verification of approved degree programs may be obtained from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, 20 North Clark Street, Suite 2500, Chicago, Illinois 60602-5109; phone: [phone], or through their Web site at: http://www.acpe-accredit.org/. (NOTE: Prior to 2005 ACPE accredited both baccalaureate and Doctor of Pharmacy terminal degree program. Today the sole degree is Doctor of Pharmacy.(2) Graduates of foreign pharmacy degree programs meet the educational requirement if the graduate is able to 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.

Experience:

In addition to the basic requirements, candidates must have 1 year of experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-13) and demonstrate the following KSAs:

• Manages a complex medical center based pharmacy program that is defined as having multiple practice settings (e.g. hospital ambulatory care, long-term care, behavior health care) that require Joint Commission review as separate standards.
• In addition to the medical center pharmacy, has responsibility for pharmacy services at one or more of the following: CBOCs, Rural Health Program, domiciliary, or provides dispensing and/or clinical services to State Veterans Home.
• Presence of advanced clinical pharmacy programs that include pharmacist(s) that have approved scopes of practice with prescriptive privileges.
• Pharmacy provides clinical pharmacist services to three (3) or more specialty areas such as, but not limited to, hemodialysis, oncology, operating room or an emergency department.

In addition to the requirements listed in 2a above, must meet at least two of the following:

• An ASHP Accredited Pharmacy Residency Program.
• A Research Program that is accredited by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP).
• Actively involved in committees or advisory/work groups at the VISN and/or National level.
• An ongoing pharmacy student rotation in both the intermediate and advanced practice May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria).

Reference:

For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/.

The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is 15.

Physical Requirements:

• Applicants must have use of all fingers.
• Walking or standing for up to 8-hours.
• Kneeling intermittently multiple times for up to 8-hours.
• Use of both legs is required.
• Must possess visual acuity to read typed print.
• Keen hearing (aids permitted).
• Mental stability must be required to handle rigors of the position.
• The loss or impairment of a specific function may be compensated by satisfactory use of prosthesis.