Located within the Chief of Staff Service in the VA San Diego Healthcare System of the Department Veterans Affairs in the Clinical Informatics Division. The Informatics Pharmacy Manager must be a licensed pharmacist with a full, current and unrestricted license to practice pharmacy in a State, Territory, Commonwealth of the Unites States or the District of Columbia. Incumbent is responsible for managing, organizing, and coordinating the Informatics Program within the Clinical Informatics service

Duties

VA Careers - Pharmacy: https://youtube.com/embed/Fn_ickNBEws Major Duties and Responsibilities Leads and expertly participates in modernization and sustainment of electronic health records (EHR) system and other Informatics/IT/Biomed systems associated with EHR. Functions as a change agent, actively participating in EHR modernization process at the facility, VISN and national level. Provide clinical informatics expertise to train clinical staff on use of electronic health records and other clinical informatics matters. Apply professional standards of care and pharmacy practice to evaluate issues in Informatics and derive/implement informatics solutions to improve delivery of care. Formulates programmatic outcomes relative to the use of informatics for groups of patients, staff and the organization. Initiates, leads and evaluates performance improvement efforts within the scope of clinical informatics service. Develops systems to continuously monitor and measure quality, safety and outcomes of care delivery. Creates and presents accurate data analytics with recommendations and reports to various committees, councils and others as required. Functions as an expert in data management and analysis in areas related to assigned roles and responsibilities. Reviews, analyzes and incorporates data, information and knowledge in a systematic and ongoing process refining a variety of issues/problems. Provide expertise in implementing, maintaining and enhancing business applications that support important operations of facility. Initiates and leads interdisciplinary groups promoting decisions that positively impact the program, services, and/or medical center. Provides expert consultation and direct interventions to track, trend and analyze data for strategic planning and initiatives. Expertly engages staff in the transformation of data into knowledge for integration into practice in all clinical and administrative areas. Actively participates in service level, hospital wide, ad-hoc and VISN committees as well as professional specialty organizations. Prioritizes informatics tasks based on the immediate/anticipated needs of the service, facility and organization. Systematically determines the social, legal, regulatory, and ethical impact of an informatics solution on nursing and health care. Incorporates current regulations, standards and/or guidelines of applicable professional organizations, accrediting or regulatory bodies into practice and policies. Develops and evaluates relevant data rich sources for inclusion in guidelines, policies and procedures relevant to clinical and administrative processes and programs. Provide leadership in the application of the pharmacy/clinical process to Informatics improving outcomes; Apply professional standards of care and pharmacy practice to evaluate issues in Informatics and derive/implement informatics solutions to improve delivery of care. Manage informational and human resources effectively to facilitate safe, effective, and efficient care. Analyzes resource availability, identifies risk areas including, but not limited to, equipment and data/information access and validity. Identify and address informatics issues with implications in ethics, accountability and integrity exemplified in discovering and addressing/reporting privacy vulnerability in the data access/management process. Implement an educational plan to meet the competency training needs of the team and provide training to the peers in the area of SME. Participates in recruitment, retention and mentoring of colleagues. Lead and manage innovation and systems redesign projects to improve quality of patient care or patient satisfaction. Demonstrate leadership skills to lead team projects and apply group process to identify, analyze, and resolve clinical informatics problems. Demonstrate professionalism and collegiality to meet the service expectation of excellent customer service to the internal and external customers. Other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Full-Time, Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 4:00pm Compressed/Flexible: Not available Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 000000 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

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. 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. Verification of approved degree programs may be obtained from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, 20 North Clark Street, Suite 2500, Chicago, Illinois 60602-5109; phone: (312) 664-3575, or through their Web site at: http://www.acpe-accredit.org/. 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. A pharmacist who has, or has ever had, any license(s) revoked, suspended, denied, restricted, limited, or issued/placed in a probationary status may be appointed only in accordance with the provisions in VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Chapter 3, section B, paragraph 16. NOTE: Individuals who have or have had multiple licenses and had any such license revoked for professional misconduct, professional incompetence or substandard care, or who surrendered such license after receiving written notice of potential termination of such license by the State for professional misconduct, professional incompetence, or substandard care, are not eligible for appointment to the position unless such revoked or surrendered license is fully restored (38 U.S.C. 7402(f)). Effective November 30, 1999, this is a requirement for employment. This requirement does not apply to licensed pharmacists on VA rolls as of that date, provided they maintain continuous appointment and are not disqualified for employment by any subsequent revocations or voluntary surrenders of State license, registration or certification. Pharmacists must be proficient in spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C. 7402(d), and 7407(d). 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: To be considered at the GS-13 grade level you must meet the basic requirements and the requirements below: Experience: You must have 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level, GS-12. You must possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities, (KSAs): Ability to communicate orally and in writing to persuade and influence clinical and management decisions. Expert understanding of regulatory and quality standards for their program area. Ability to solve problems, coordinate and organize responsibilities to maximize outcomes in their program area or area of clinical expertise. Expert knowledge of a specialized area of clinical pharmacy practice or specialty area of pharmacy. Advanced skill in monitoring and assessing the outcome of drug therapies, including physical assessment and interpretation of laboratory and other diagnostic parameters. References: VA Handbook 5005/55 Preferred Experience: Prior Clinical Informatics experience and/or Data Analytics experience is required. Prior project management experience in a health care domain is preferred though not required. Certification from a national informatics certifying body or a formal training in clinical/pharmacy informatics is preferred though not required. Expert knowledge of VA clinical pharmacy practice including inpatient and outpatient pharmacy processes and issues related to interface of providers with pharmacists; expert skills in the utilization of various clinical informatics software applications from a pharmacy standpoint such as VISTA/CPRS, pharmacy software packages, BCMA. Extensive knowledge of the electronic medical records and its underlying data sets with respect to data entry, storage, retrial, query, analysis and visualization. The knowledge base must also include major issues, program goals and objectives of the VA San Diego Healthcare System and that of the regional and national program offices. Extensive knowledge of patient care processes, pharmaceutics and pharmacotherapeutics, computer systems, applicable regulatory guidelines, advanced medical terminology, clinical processes and applications software for evaluating strategies for software deployment. Ability to recommend and implement solutions to clinical database management and clinical process problems relating to the electronic patient record system. Physical Requirements: Moderate Lifting (15-44 lbs); Moderate Carrying (15-44 lbs); Reaching above shoulder; Use of fingers; Both hands required; Walking (8 hours); Standing (8 hours); Kneeling (1 hours); Repeated bending (4 hours); Both legs required; Near vision correctable at 13" to 16" to Jaeger 1 to 4; Specific visual requirement: DVA correctable to 20/40; Both eyes required; Ability to distinguish basic colors; Hearing (aid permitted).

Education

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: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address San Diego VA Medical Center 3350 La Jolla Village Drive San Diego, CA 92161 US
• Name: Timeeka Mayfield
• Email: [email protected]