Title: Registered Pharmacist
Location: Perry Point VA Medical Center, Perry Point, MD (VA Maryland Health Care System)
Position Type: Full time
Contract:
Education Level: BS, Pharmacy
Shift: Any (Day, Night, Weekend, Holiday)
Job Category: Health Care
Start Date: March 1, 2025
Our Company Promise
We are committed to providing our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Vighter’s Mission is to provide efficient, fast, high quality healthcare staffing to our clients. Our Culture’s 5 key elements are crucial to the effectiveness of our employees in accomplishing our mission. These elements are:
- Dependability
- Integrity
- Personability
- Transparency
- Responsiveness
Creating and cultivating this Culture within the organization is our commitment to our employees.
Above all, Vighter employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude that they are expected to share externally with every Vighter Client and Customer.
Summary:
Vighter is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) which provides professional healthcare staffing services to Federal, State, and Local government clients. The company is quality focused and registered ISO 9001:2015 and accredited by The Joint Commission in Healthcare Staffing Services.
Vighter is recruiting Registered Pharmacists for positions at the VA Medical Center at Perry Point, MD, and various alternate sites in and around Baltimore, Fort Meade and Perry Point. Registered Pharmacists dispense prescription medications and provide information to patients about the drugs and their use. They also advise physicians and other healthcare workers on the selection, dosage, interactions, and side effects of medications to treat health problems. A pharmacist in this assignment handles routine medication-related activities in accordance with local, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN), and national policies and regulations.
These include, but are not limited to: reviewing, interpreting, and verifying medication orders for appropriateness; processing and filling medication orders; interacting with and making recommendations to other clinical staff regarding medication therapy ordered to ensure safe and effective care; reviewing the patient's medications, allergies, labs, and other pertinent information from the medical record to identify and solve medication-related problems; contacting providers as appropriate; documenting recommendations and interventions; providing refill extensions and partial medication supplies; taking health and medication histories; performing medication reconciliation; providing drug information; assisting in formulary management including therapeutic substitutions, nonformulary reviews and medication usage evaluations; documenting and assessing adverse drug events (ADEs); and providing oversight of technical staff in all aspects of medication distribution.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform a full range of pharmacist procedures. Reviews the prescriber’s medication order and patient’s drug regimens to assure that the medications ordered are prescribed appropriately, in correct dosages, and free of potential drug interactions or incompatibilities which could alter the desired therapeutic response. Counsel patients regarding appropriate use of medications.
- Deliver comprehensive pharmaceutical services within the personnel, supply, and equipment capabilities of the facility.
- Reconstitutes, preparing, and compounding commercial, non-routine and/or special formulation parenteral admixtures by means of adhering to current USP 797/800 standards. Ensuring that preparations are unaltered therapeutically by incompatible or interacting drugs.
- Consulting with patients, providing information and answering questions regarding their drug regimen, which includes advising patients of potential drug-related or health-related conditions which may develop from the use of the medication for which the patient should seek additional
- medical care as appropriate. Review patient profiles at the time of dispensing in order to closely monitor medication therapy.
- Ensure prescription directions for use, dose, medication interactions, therapeutic duplications or overlaps, allergy information, age specific dosage, and other pertinent data are appropriate for individual patients. Intervention with providers shall be made for noted discrepancy of above listed items.
- Compounds medications as required.
- Ensure accuracy of all pharmaceutical products prepared or processed by technical staff.
- Supervise inventory control of all pharmaceuticals in the pharmacy, especially scheduled pharmaceuticals, and ensure pharmacy security.
- Maintain appropriate records and security of all scheduled controlled substances according to applicable regulations.
- Other duties as assigned.
Experience & Education:
- BS or Pharm D. Degree from an accredited university or college of pharmacy.
- 2 (two) years of experience is preferred.
- 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 and unrestricted licensure.
Qualifications:
- Must be able to walk, stand, bend, and/or sit for more than 8 hours per day.
- Must be able to perform BLS/CPR if necessary and assist patients into/out of a wheelchair.
- Must be able to perform duties in a stressful and often austere environment without physical limitations.
- Must be able to use an elevator or walk up and down stairs.
- Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds and carry up to 10 feet.
- Must be able to routinely grasp or handle objects, use finger dexterity, bend elbows/knees and reach above and below shoulders.
- Must be able to read and interpret handwritten and typewritten print.
- Must be able to communicate by voice and detect sound by ear.
- Must be willing to work day, night, weekdays, weekends, holidays, and overtime if necessary.
- Must be able to perform duties in an indoor and/or outdoor environment.
- Must be able to pass a criminal background investigation. Candidate must not have been convicted of, pled guilty to, pled nolo contender to, or received probation prior to judgement for any crime other than a minor traffic violation, the record of which has not been expunged.
- Must undergo Urine Drug Screening (UDS).
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
These KSAs are both requirements and things that will help you to be successful with Vighter and the facility where you will work:
- Communication and Consultation
- Global & Cultural Awareness
- Ethical Practices
- Moderate proficiency in, common Microsoft Office Suite programs, Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and SharePoint.
- Functional proficiency and ability to document patient-centered health care in the required
- A deep sense of purpose and dedication to the United States and our U.S. Military Veterans, their Families, and other patients as assigned.
- An unshakeable adherence to quality and continuous process improvement.
- An apolitical, patient-centered focus that drives to enhanced care and patient satisfaction
- Knowledge of regulations (HIPAA/Privacy Act) regarding the confidentiality of patient medical records and information as well as Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
Duty Hours / On-call Requirements
- Pharmacy activities are open 24/7/365 to include days, nights, weekends and holidays. Acceptable candidates must be willing to work as needed.
- All candidates are required to provide any schedule limitations before acceptance. We try to accommodate your schedule, so please inform Vighter of any schedule limitations in advance.
Work Environment:
- Exciting, fast-paced work environment.
- Supportive team of healthcare professionals and administrative staff.
- Opportunity to work with diverse populations, including Veterans and underserved communities.
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to sit for more than 8 hours per day.
- Must be willing to work overtime if necessary.
- Must be able to use an elevator or walk up & down stairs.
- Must be able to lift up to 40 lbs. and carry up to 10 feet.
- Must be able to routinely grasp or handle objects, use finger dexterity, bend elbows/knees and reach above and below shoulders.
- Must be able to read and interpret handwritten and typewritten print.
- Must be able to communicate by voice and detect sound by ear.
- Must be able to perform duties in an indoor office or outdoor environment.
- Must be able to pass a criminal background investigation.
- Must undergo urine drug screening (UDS).
Travel:
- As required to satisfy the contractual obligations. Generally, travel is limited to commute from residence to place of work and back. Commute time and distance is non-compensatory.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary, weekly pay and comprehensive benefits package, with Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance for W2 full time employees.
- Company-paid basic Life and AD&D insurance. Best in class rates for Voluntary life insurance.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Professional development opportunities.
- SCA employees: Health & Welfare paid in cash (with proof of ACA-compliant health insurance from the open market or Vighter, LLC) Employee may use funds to offset any benefits premiums, fund their 401(a) retirement account or a combination of the two.
- POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD/OPTION YEAR APPROVAL.
Vighter LLC is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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