About this role
Job Summary
About the Position
This position is obligated and is a TERM Not to Exceed one year and two months position. It is time-limited and may be extended up to a maximum of eight years. This position is located at Naval Health Clinic Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.
Qualifications
- Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.
- Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).
- You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
- Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
- Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that may have been gained in hospital pharmacies, retail pharmacies, or in pharmaceutical firms or laboratories that provided a basic knowledge of: Pharmaceutical nomenclature; Characteristics, strengths, and dosage forms of pharmaceuticals; Pharmaceutical systems of weights and measures; and the variety of procedures and techniques involved in the care, storage, repackaging, bulk compounding, and distribution of pharmaceuticals performing such duties as:
- (1) verifying accuracy of pharmaceutical labels;
- (2) utilizing automated pharmacy systems to enter and retrieve data;
- (3) rotating pharmacy stock; and
- (4) compounding medications within a pharmacy.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-05).
- Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) is preferred but not required.
- Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.
- For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.
Major Duties
- Perform a variety of complex technical functions to interpret, order, receive, store, and dispense pharmaceuticals from routine to complex controlled substances.
- Process medication orders by using computerized order entry.
- Answer routine questions concerning proper use, dosage, administration, drug interaction, and side effects of medications.
- Perform substantial bulk compounding, including complex products.
- Perform complex assessment of compound products utilizing test equipment adjusting to proper concentrations in solutions and visual inspections.
- Prepare, store, and issue sterile and non-sterile drug preparations following established guidelines
- Keeps accurate records for each controlled item stocked and maintains inventory.
- Use computer system for data collections and monitoring to include individualized medication profiles, prescription fill data, provide medical information, and identify potential drug interactions and substitutions or generic drug replacement.