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Clinical Pharmacy Specialist (Hematology/Oncology) – EDRP Authorized
Veterans Health Administration · Amarillo, Texas · Closes tomorrow
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Federal employees - Competitive service, Federal employees - Excepted service, Internal to an agency.
The announcement lists U.S. citizens as eligible. It also names current permanent VA employees, current permanent federal employees of other agencies, and past, current and upcoming VA Health Professions Training graduate program participants.
Experience: You need 1 year of experience at the GS-12 level, which means routine pharmacy work such as reviewing and verifying medication orders, medication reconciliation, and providing drug information. The job also expects skills at the GS-13 level, such as expert knowledge of a specialty area of clinical pharmacy and advanced skill in monitoring drug therapy outcomes.
Education: You must be a graduate of an Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) accredited pharmacy school with a bachelor's degree in pharmacy (BS Pharmacy) and/or a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree. Graduates of foreign pharmacy programs must show Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Examination Commission (FPGEC) certification, which includes passing the FPGEE exam and the TOEFL iBT English test.
Licenses and certifications:
- Full, current and unrestricted license to practice pharmacy in a U.S. state, territory, Puerto Rico or D.C.
- Current registration, if your license requires it to stay active
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes tomorrow (November 5, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
This job will close once 50 applications are received, which may be before the closing date.
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: You are rated on how well you meet the listed qualifications, based on your application, resume or CV and documents, which will be verified. Errors or missing information may lead to an ineligible rating or affect your score, and pre-employment reference checks are done. You must complete the full online questionnaire.
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment, and email vhaedrpprogramsupport@va.gov with questions.
- Use a long-form resume or CV, since the 2-page resume rule does not apply to this job.
- If you use education to qualify, send your transcript with your application, or it may not be referred.
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