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Post : Pharmacist (Staff Pharmacist)
Summary
You can have a meaningful career with an agency that truly values a diverse workforce. In our agency, you’ll find a diverse workforce employed from entry level jobs to senior management positions. We protect public safety by ensuring that federal offenders serve their sentences of imprisonment in facilities that are safe, humane, cost efficient, appropriately secure, and provides reentry programing to ensure their successful return to the community. Our employees at federal correctional facilities are "correctional workers first" and perform correctional work regardless of their specific occupation.
Responsibilities
• The incumbent serves as a Staff Pharmacist at a Federal Bureau of Prisons’ correctional institution. They utilize technical skills and professional judgement to provide medications to inmate patients. Incumbent reviews all prescription orders for appropriateness in regard to medication, dose, route, interval, and contraindications. In order to facilitate quality distribution and administration of medications, the Pharmacist provides medication information to staff and patients as appropriate.
• The pharmacist is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the medication delivery system and assures that the integrity of all medications is maintained and is properly stored. The pharmacist is the only independent practitioner who is specifically licensed and authorized to dispense medications.
• The pharmacist is responsible for participating in quality assurance activities regarding medications. This includes policy and medication usage and/or audits and the suggestion, authoring, or performance of Drug Utilization Evaluation studies needed to maintain quality patient care and cost effective medication management.
• The pharmacist is responsible for the records and reports related to the purchase, receipt and disposition of drugs and related supplies and determines that all medications are properly packaged and labeled and profiles all medication orders and assures that there are no contraindications. They dispense pharmaceuticals in accordance with proper procedures.
• Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and is performed on a regular and recurring basis.
Requirements
A doctoral degree in Pharmacy that is recognized by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) or an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained.
3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree, Ph.D., Pharm.D. or equivalent doctoral degree.
Applicants must be licensed to practice pharmacy in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.
Additional Information:
Industry Type : Pharma
Salary : $70,042 to $91,058 per year
Pay scale & grade : GS 11
Location : United States
Last Date : 06/25/2018
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