This position serves as a PACT Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner (CPP) at Edward Hines, Jr. Hospital, located at 5000 S 5th Ave, Hines, IL, and the Oak Lawn Community Based Outpatient Clinic, located at 10201 S Cicero Ave, Oak Lawn, IL 60453, within the Pharmacy Service. The CPP provides patient-centered comprehensive medication management in outpatient primary care, collaborating with patients and healthcare providers to optimize medication use and health outcomes.
The Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner (CPP) functions as a mid-level practitioner to design, implement, and monitor therapeutic drug plans to achieve definite outcomes through direct interactions with patients and providers in assigned areas.
Duties may include, but are not limited to the following: Direct and Indirect Patient Care: Develops, implements, monitors, and adjusts individualized medication-therapy plans in collaboration with patients, prescribers, and the interdisciplinary care team. Orders, reviews, and interprets clinical measurements, laboratory results, diagnostic studies, medication histories, and prescription-monitoring data to support safe and effective treatment decisions.
Initiates, modifies, continues, or discontinues medications, vaccines, devices, and supplies within the approved scope of practice, including urgent and high-risk situations. Provides comprehensive medication management through in-person and virtual encounters, completes timely follow-up, and coordinates medication reconciliation and transitions of care.
Evaluates therapeutic effectiveness, safety, adherence, interactions, contraindications, adverse reactions, and medication errors; reports concerns and communicates recommendations or alternatives to the care team. Educates patients using individualized counseling and motivational interviewing, confirms understanding, and refers complex or unstable patients for higher-level care when appropriate.
Documents care plans, interventions, findings, and outcomes in the electronic health record and other required systems in accordance with applicable policies and productivity expectations. Evaluates formulary, non-formulary, restricted, and high-cost medication requests and supports drug-use criteria that promote clinically appropriate, safe, effective, and cost-conscious care.
Develops and communicates medication-use criteria, clinical findings, and recommendations to healthcare providers and practitioner groups as needed. Medication Dispensing and Distribution: Processes electronic medication orders and verifies patient information, medication, dose, route, frequency, allergies, interactions, incompatibilities, duplication, and priority.
Identifies and resolves prescribing, dispensing, pharmacotherapy, and formulary issues and documents interventions within required timeframes. Assists with coordinating pharmacy technicians and volunteers involved in preparing, labeling, dispensing, manufacturing, and delivering medications and supplies. Dispenses controlled substances accurately and in accordance with current policies and procedures.
Does not verify, check, or release any prescription or medication order that the practitioner personally prescribed. Education and Training: Precepts students and PGY-1/PGY-2 residents while maintaining ASHP-aligned qualifications. Promotes pharmacy practice and educates teams on PACT and CPP processes. Develops and delivers training for healthcare professionals. Supports policy compliance and improvements to clinical pharmacy services.
Presents or publishes project and research results when possible. Provides advanced pharmacotherapy education, drug information, and literature reviews. Completes mandatory training and maintains required documentation. Follows infection-control, safety, environmental, recycling, and hazardous-medication procedures. Complies with environmental laws and supports waste reduction, conservation, and continuous improvement.
Administrative and Technical Support: Collaborates on drug-use improvement programs and medication-use evaluations. Tracks cost reductions and cost avoidance. Manages the formulary and promotes appropriate medication use. Supports quality improvement through criteria development, data collection, and evaluation. Completes assigned duties and required systems training on time. Supervises clinical technical support, including automated dispensing and BCMA systems.
Provides age-appropriate care based on patient needs and service policies. Serves on interdisciplinary committees and workgroups as a subject-matter expert. Participates in professional practice evaluations and peer review as assigned. Perform other related duties as assigned. Driving Requirement: Please be aware that this position requires an anticipated driving schedule of two days per week to the Oak Lawn CBOC.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: Not Available. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 01186F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.
IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education. Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Tranea.Hayes@va.gov · 573-778-4447
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $150535 – $195699/yr.
Applications close on 2026-11-09.
This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.
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