Clinical Pharmacist

An excellent opportunity exists to work for a government contractor with competitive compensation and work-life balance. Posterity Group, LLC is seeking professional and experienced Pharmacist to provide services at the Carl T. Hayden Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC), 650 East Indian School Road, Phoenix AZ 85012

Compensation:

• Salary: $69.02 – $81.12 per hour
• 3 weeks Paid Time Off (PTO) a year
• 11 Federal Holidays a year
• $1,500 CME annually
• Health and Welfare (H&W) can be used for Health Care, 401K, or cash in lieu of health care.
• Health Care, Dental, Vision
• 401K
• Life Insurance

Duties:

• Reviewing, interpreting, and verifying medication orders for appropriateness.
• Reviews the patient medication profile prior to dispensing drugs and medications.
• Review of labeling for directions for use and precautions as necessary to assure proper protection of prescribed products to the patient.
• Provide information and advice about drug therapy and usage, drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and proper medication storage.
• Maintain records such as pharmacy files, patient records, inventories, and control records for narcotics or controlled drugs.
• Compound and dispense medications as prescribed by physicians, dentists, and other licensed practitioners by calculating, weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients.
• Processing and filling medication orders
• Interacting with and making recommendations regarding medication therapy ordered to ensure safe and effective care in oncology/chemotherapy care for the facility.
• Performs patient medication profile reviews upon entering orders and utilizes knowledge of pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and pharmacotherapeutics to evaluate orders for appropriateness.
• Ensures appropriate laboratory monitoring of drug therapy and provides pharmacokinetic services. Follows guidelines, protocols, and policies in performing these services.
• Along with using prudent clinical judgment, the incumbent utilizes available resources including laboratory and other diagnostic data to communicate questionable therapy, non- formulary therapy or therapy outside of established criteria to prescribers and offers reasonable alternatives, responding to requests in a timely manner.
• Provides medication and disease state management information and participates in other educational endeavors including patient and family education and medical/nursing staff education.
• Enters, processes, and/or edits new prescription orders from providers accurately.
• Processes refills, partials, renewal prescription requests timely.
• Accurately dispenses prescriptions, medication orders, and supplies.
• Fills prescriptions by selecting the correct drug and dosage form, reducing the drug from bulk to the quantity prescribed, compounding, when necessary, then packaging and labeling the drug in an appropriate manner.
• Exercises care in the dispensing of drugs, especially controlled substances, investigational and cytotoxic drugs, to assure that legal and agency regulations and instructions are followed, that proper and complete recordkeeping is maintained, and that the drug storage areas are stocked, safe, and secure.

Qualifications:

• Full, current and unrestricted license to practice pharmacy in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States (i.e., Puerto Rico), or the District of Columbia.
• Cannot have ever had, any license(s) revoked, suspended, denied, restricted, limited, or issued/placed in a probationary status
• Must maintain current registration if this is required to maintain full, current, and unrestricted licensure.
• Completion of a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree must be fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE).
• All CPPs must be board certified by the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS),
• 1 Year experience working or completion of an ACPE-accredited Pharm D. program
• Must pass a pre-employment physical examination.
• Must be a US Citizen

Employer profile

Posterity Group is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business that provides all manner of medical staff to the Federal, State, and commercial customers.

Job ID: 8874962 / Ref: 2d0347634717497b23c1e2e95bd3ad0e