Job Summary

The Informatics Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner serves as a lead informatics resource for the National Telepharmacogenomics Program (NTPGx) and the broader National Pharmacogenomics Program (NPP), functioning at the highest level of clinical informatics practice. This is a national program position supporting NPP sites and veterans located across the VA system. This position optimizes the effectiveness of precision medicine initiatives and systems management in alignment with the VHA mission.

Job Description

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. English Language Proficiency. Pharmacists must be proficient in spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C. 7402(d), and 7407(d) 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. 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. 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). Grade Determinations: Experience. In addition to the GS-12 requirements, must have 1 year of experience equivalent to the next lower grade level. Preferred Experience: Licensed pharmacist with at least one year of documented direct patient care experience in a clinical pharmacy practice, including patient assessment, clinical chart review, medication therapy management, lab ordering, and initiation, modification, monitoring, or discontinuation of medication therapy under an authorized/advanced scope of practice, care coordination agreement, collaborative practice agreement, or equivalent clinical practice model where the pharmacist acted autonomously with independent decision making authority. Experience limited primarily to solely making recommendations, dispensing, order verification, medication distribution, operational coverage, or inpatient or outpatient staffing does not satisfy this preferred clinical experience. Seeking applicants who demonstrate formal training in pharmacogenomics or active clinical PGx practice, including interpretation of patient-specific PGx results and development or communication of medication recommendations based on PGx informed results. Critically, applicants must also demonstrate at least one year of hands-on clinical informatics experience, completion of an informatics-focused residency or fellowship, or equivalent experience designing, building, implementing, maintaining, or optimizing: clinical data extraction, transformation, and modeling (e.g., SQL, Excel Power Query, DAX, or Python); dashboards and reports (e.g., Power BI, Power BI Report Builder, or Pyramid); workflow and application automation (e.g., Power Automate, Power Apps, SharePoint, or other Microsoft 365 tools); and clinical decision support or population-health safety monitoring tools (e.g., medication alerts, patient registries, or automated identification of high-risk drug-gene interactions). Reference: For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/. The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-13. The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is GS-13. Physical Requirements: This position involves typical office work. Physical demands are limited to those required to work at a computer workstation, including extended periods of sitting or standing, use of a keyboard and monitor(s), and other tasks common to a standard office environment.