PHARMACIST 1 – 11262024 – 63627

Job Information

State of Tennessee Job Information

Opening Date/Time 11/26/2024 12:00AM Central Time Closing Date/Time 12/02/2024 11:59PM Central Time Salary (Monthly) $8,534.00 – $13,618.00 Salary (Annually) $102,408.00 – $163,416.00 Job Type Full-Time City, State Location Chattanooga, TN Department Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

LOCATION OF (1) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH & SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES, MOCCASIN BEND MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE, HAMILTON COUNTY

Qualifications

Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with at least a bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Science.

Necessary Special Qualifications: Licensure or eligible for licensure as a Pharmacist in the State of Tennessee. Licensure as a Pharmacist in the State of Tennessee is required in a reasonable time after employment.

Examination Method: Education and Experience,100%, for Preferred Service positions.

Overview

Summary: Under general supervision, is responsible for professional pharmaceutical work of average difficulty; and performs related work as required.

Distinguishing Features: This is the entry-working class in the Pharmacist sub-series. An employee in this class performs professional pharmaceutical work in an institution or clinic in compounding and dispensing medication. This class differs from that of Pharmacist 2 in that an incumbent of the latter serves as pharmacy director at an institution, a Public Health pharmacy consultant, or in other assignments with greater responsibilities.

Responsibilities

Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People:

1. Evaluates medication orders for proper indication, strength, frequency, and potential interactions or contraindications to ensure appropriate use of medications.

Assisting and Caring for Others:

1. May provide pharmacy consultation (e.g., discharge counseling, medication education, or medication reconciliation) to patients or medical staff.

Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards:

1. Reviews medication orders to ensure they comply with all laws, regulations, and hospital policies and procedures.
2. May participate in the formulation of pharmaceutical policies and procedures.

Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others:

1. Serves as a professional resource to various groups by providing drug information.

Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates:

1. Talks with pharmacists, medical staff, or others about potential medication-related issues (e.g., drug-drug interactions, patient allergies, dosing issues).
2. Communicates via written correspondence or email to disseminate pharmacy related information.

Selling or Influencing Others:

1. Collaborates with other healthcare practitioners to modify or optimize the pharmaceutical plan of care.

Communicating with Persons Outside Organization:

1. May testify at the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy and other hearings.
2. May serve on various committees regarding pharmacy issues.
3. Communicate (by telephone, e-mail, written correspondence, or in person) with customers, the public, government officials, and other external sources to exchange information relevant to pharmacy work.

Documenting/Recording Information:

1. Documents all medication errors, adverse drug reactions, and all other interventions that can potentially affect patient care.
2. Creates and maintains patient profile records by entering demographics and updating medication orders in the pharmacy computer system.
3. May write narrative text to update pharmacy manuals.

Getting Information:

1. Reviews medical records and/or consults with medical staff to collect pertinent clinical information as necessary to provide comprehensive pharmaceutical services.
2. Reviews information from relevant sources to provide answers to patients and staff regarding drug information inquiries.
3. Receives orders and prescriptions from providers to provide medications to patients.
4. Obtains information from relevant sources and compiles reports necessary to submit appropriate orders for medications and vaccines.

Thinking Creatively:

1. May develop new methodologies relevant to pharmaceutical care to help improve patient safety and/or clinical outcomes.

Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others:

1. Communicates with hospital staff and patients to circumvent and/or resolve conflicts.

Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others:

1. Oversees the work activities of pharmacy technician staff to ensure work is completed timely and accurately.
2. Collaborates with other pharmacy team members to prioritize, monitor, review, evaluate, and accomplish work tasks.

Interacting With Computers:

1. Enters and retrieves information in a computer using programming such as email, Microsoft Office, pharmacy-specific software, and drug information software.

Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships:

1. Establishes and maintains professional relationship with nurses, physicians, and other co-workers.

Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge:

1. Utilizes current and appropriate resources to respond to drug information requests appropriately and accurately.
2. Completes continuing education and other training as required by the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy and hospital policy.
3. Maintains up-to-date pharmaceutical reference materials.
4. Reads/reviews various publications or literature to keep up to date on all pharmaceutical knowledge relevant to patient population served.

Making Decisions and Solving Problems:

1. Analyzes the reports of medication errors, adverse drug events, and violations of hospital policies and procedures to determine the need for staff education or other corrective action.

Developing Objectives and Strategies:

1. May develop or assist in developing and implementing policies and procedures.

Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work:

1. Organizes and assigns priority to medication orders to ensure timely review and processing.

Processing Information:

1. Verifies medication orders prepared by pharmacy technicians or other pharmacists to confirm accuracy.
2. Reviews prescriptions/orders to ensure accuracy and to calculate appropriate quantities of medications needed.
3. Reviews issuing/dispensing medication histories and inventories for accuracy.
4. Reviews drug wholesale pharmaceutical distributer orders to ensure that appropriate type and quantity of supplies are ordered.
5. Compares invoices to received drug wholesale pharmaceutical distributer orders to verify that correct quantity and types of items were received.

Performing Administrative Activities:

1. Prepares a variety of standard records and reports pertaining to pharmacy operations, including inventory records, invoices, and filing of medication orders.

Coaching and Developing Others:

1. May provide guidance and direction, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance, to hospital staff, residents, interns, students, or others as appropriate.

Developing and Building Teams:

1. Encourages and builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members to foster a respectful work environment.

Performing for or Working Directly with the Public:

1. May make recommendations to groups, organizations, or general public regarding medications, medical equipment, or healthcare supplies.

Training and Teaching Others:

1. May identify educational needs and develop formal pharmacy educational or training programs or classes.
2. May conduct formal classroom training to educate staff or other various groups or organizations on various aspects of pharmaceutical care.

Monitoring and Controlling Resources:

1. May assist in maintaining the pharmacy budget by adhering to cost-containment strategies (e.g., purchasing contracted drugs and supplies, adhering to hospital medication formulary).
2. Ensures that medication inventory is properly rotated to minimize loss from expired drugs.

Scheduling Work and Activities:

1. May schedule or assist in the scheduling of training and work of other staff, including pharmacy technicians and/or interns.

Controlling Machines and Processes:

1. May use automated dispensing equipment to supply medications.
2. May use repackaging/prepackaging equipment to prepare medications for distribution.

Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events:

1. Identifies medications that have been recalled by the FDA or drug manufacturer to remove them from the usable inventory for proper disposition.
2. Identifies damaged, outdated, or incorrect shipments received and accompanying invoices to determine need for returning product to appropriate vendor.

Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material:

1. May inspect medication administration rooms, emergency kits, and crash carts to ensure proper storage of medications and equipment.
2. Inspects medication label printers, or automated counting devices, or repackaging equipment to ensure accuracy.

Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information:

1. Estimates the quantities of medications, vaccines, and supplies to request or purchase for each area.

Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings:

1. Monitors temperature of refrigeration units to ensure medications or vaccines are properly stored.

Handling and Moving Objects:

1. May prepare or dispense medications for delivery or administration, using personal protective equipment as appropriate.
2. May package medications into boxes for return shipment.
3. Receives deliveries from pharmacy vendors and places stock on appropriate shelves in the pharmacy.

Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment:

1. May perform basic maintenance on pharmacy equipment such as cleaning medication counting machine between medications.
2. Performs basic maintenance on office equipment such as changing toner cartridges, clearing paper jams, reconfiguring printer settings, or other basic maintenance tasks.

Performing General Physical Activities:

1. Hand carries medications for routine deliveries or in response to emergency situations.
2. Delivers medication to and from the pharmacy and nursing stations by pushing pharmacy carts and removing/carrying medication cassettes.

Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment:

1. May operate motor vehicle to transport medications from site to site and to attend work related meetings.

Competencies (KSA’s)

Competencies:

1. Problem Solving
2. Conflict Management
3. Peer Relationships
4. Time Management
5. Technical Learning
6. Informing
7. Ethics and Values
8. Managing Diversity
9. Self-Development
10. Process Management

Knowledge:

1. Expert knowledge of medications, such as drug classifications, dosing, interactions, abbreviations, drug regimens, calculations, brand and generic equivalencies, formulary status, and proper storage conditions
2. Intermediate knowledge of state and federal pharmacy laws, rules, and regulations, as well as other applicable health care laws, rules, and regulations
3. Basic knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, statistics and their applications
4. Basic knowledge of business and management principles involved in coordination of people and resources
5. Basic knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services, including customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction
6. Basic knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, and other office procedures and terminology
7. Basic knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects

Skills:

1. Intermediate mathematics skills
2. Basic speaking skills
3. Complex problem-solving skills
4. Intermediate judgment and decision-making skills
5. Intermediate critical thinking skills
6. Basic skills in teaching others how to do something
7. Advanced reading comprehension skills
8. Intermediate writing skills
9. Basic skills in persuading others to change their minds or behavior
10. Intermediate time management skills
11. Basic skill in bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences

Abilities:

1. Ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve problems
2. Ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing
3. Ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand
4. Ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense
5. Ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
6. Ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand
7. Ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong
8. Ability to speak clearly so others can understand
9. Ability to identify and understand the speech of another person
10. Ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways
11. Ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources)
12. Ability to keep hand and arm steady while moving arm or while holding arm and hand in one position
13. Ability to quickly move hand, hand together with arm, or two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects
14. Ability to see details at close range (within a few feet)
15. Ability to exert oneself physically over long periods of time
16. Ability to see objects in the presence of glare or bright lighting
17. Ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, or carry objects
18. Ability to use abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time

Tools & Equipment

1. Computer
2. Telephone
3. Smart Phone
4. Printer/Scanner/Copier
5. Fax Machine
6. Calculator
7. Graduated Cylinders
8. Mortar and Pestle
9. Various medical equipment and devices
10. Other equipment as required

TN Driver Standards

State of Tennessee positions that may involve driving responsibilities require candidates to meet the following minimum driver qualifications:

• A valid driver’s license
• For the past five years, the candidate’s driver record must not have record of the following violations: driving under the influence (DUI), reckless driving, license suspension for moving violations, more than 4 moving violations.

Please include your Driver’s License Information under the Licenses and Certifications section of your application.

• Agencies may allow an exception based on other factors.

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