This position is assigned to the outpatient pharmacy located within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), VA Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network (VISN 6), Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center (HVAMC), under the Pharmacy Service Line. The certified GS-9 Pharmacy Technician Supervisor is responsible for the supervision of all Pharmacy non-pharmacist technical staff and volunteers.
VA Careers - Pharmacy: https://youtube.com/embed/Fn_ickNBEws Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf Duties of the position include, but are not limited to: Primary Functions Supervisory Activities: (1) Develop the work schedule, plan and grant leave and rotate duties of the pharmacy technician staff.
Assures that personnel are scheduled in such a way as to provide consistency of coverage and to accommodate planned leave and promote employee morale, is responsible for tracking and submitting pharmacy technicians time biweekly. (2) Effectively manages technical staff to assure workflow is optimized within assigned service area.
Continuously analyzes and reassesses priorities, redirecting staff to assure that workload demands are accomplished in the most effective, efficient, and economic manner possible. (3) Coordinate day-to-day maintenance and operation of pharmacy area equipment and automation. (4) Assist with the development of performance standards that are realistic, challenging, and supporting the organizational mission, vision, and goals.
Responsible for ensuring all employees meet performance standards and competencies. Identify areas for improvement as needed. (5) Assists the Chief of Pharmacy in interviewing and selecting new employees and candidates for promotion and/or reassignment. Make recommendations of employees for performance awards and other forms of recognition.
Technical Duties: (1) Prepare various management reports as delegated to include, but not limited to: High-cost drug inventory, ward stock, automation, competency, and controlled substance reports. (2) Assists pharmacy supervisors and staff to identify areas of duplication of efforts and develops solutions to streamline processes, reduce waste, save costs, and improve patient care.
(3) Develop and implement necessary administrative audits such as wait time audits and workflow analysis. (4) Effectively evaluates pharmacy activities to assist management to obtain short- and long-range objectives and goals. (5) Properly operates all equipment in the assigned area(s) in an efficient manner and assist with troubleshooting automated dispensing equipment (ADE), other assigned equipment's or technology platforms/databases.
Quality and Regulatory Duties: (1) Assists in preparation of national, local, and special accreditations of pharmacy service. (Joint Commission, Inspector General, Controlled Substance Inspections, Drug Enforcement Agency) This includes documentation record updates, development of specific training and preparation of staff and compliance of policy and procedures.
(2) Proactively evaluates and analyzes data for self-driven (independent) performance improvement projects, workload analysis and statistical reports.(3) Assures drugs and supplies are appropriately stored and secured according to USP and VA guidelines, including the storage of high-risk, look a-like sound a-like, hazardous, controlled substances, corrosive chemical, flammable liquids, and refrigerated items.
Outpatient Duties: (1) Will perform any duties of a pharmacy technician when the needs of the service require. (2) Assists with inputting prescription and medication orders in electronic prescription platform or equivalent. (3) Accurately interpret, fills, and prepares prescriptions with appropriate medications and or medical supplies for pharmacist verification. (4) Assures the timely completion of all prescriptions.
(5) Verifies the patient's identification following the Medical Center's policies (i.e., double patient identifiers) and verifies that patient receives the correct prescriptions by using VA software. (6) Utilizes and comprehends the mail shipping programs used by the facility (i.e., USPS, FedEx, UPS, etc.) for overnight delivery of non-controlled and controlled prescriptions.
Work Schedule:Monday- Friday 7:30am- 4:00pm Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not authorized Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not authorized Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 000000 Permanent Change of Station (PCS): 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/.
Tammy.Myrie@va.gov · 901-663-6722
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $71514 – $92973/yr.
Applications close on 2026-11-10.
This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.
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