This position requires customer service skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and a degree of independent decision-making.
- Obtaining and documenting patient history
- Determining visual acuity
- Performing automated refraction
- Administering eye drops, ointments, and irrigating solutions to the eye as ordered by physician
- Performing office duties and clinical tasks - entering data into EMR
- Providing patient services
- Maintaining equipment and instruments
- Interpretation of prescriptions written by ophthalmologists and optometrists
- Communicate with physician regarding questions or concerns about prescriptions and other eye-related issues
- Inspect lenses to detect flaws, verify prescription, progressive measurements, lens enhancements and coatings.
- Measure bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers, using measuring devices
- Mount and secure lenses in holding tools or chucks for cutting, polishing, and or grinding
- Assist in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coating, other lens enhancements, and frames to suit patient needs
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications
- Create work orders for lab technicians to ensure delivery of the proper lenses
- Set up machines to polish, bevel, edge, or grind lenses -
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to properly fit
- Shape lenses appropriately so that they can be inserted into frames
- Repair broken/damaged frames
- Educate on proper wear, care of eyeglasses, and contact lens
- Inspect lenses to detect flaws, verify prescription, progressive measurements, lens enhancements and coatings.
- Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers, and mark up progressives correctly
- Keeping track of orders, prescriptions, and inventory
- Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise
- Attend training workshops/meetings as scheduled
- Other duties as assigned
- Dependable transportation required to travel to other offices as required
- Must be flexible with traveling to various locations
- Ability to pay attention to detail
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- The ability to seek instruction in areas where he/she is not knowledgeable
- The ability to recognize inconsistencies
- High School Diploma or Ged required
- Minimum 2 years of eyecare experience and ABO preferred
- Minimum Associates or equivalent and on-the-job training or post-secondary education
- Strong computer knowledge and skills with a minimum typing speed of 30 AW PM Able to navigate multiple system applications
- Ability to effectively communicate
- Professionalism
- Multi-tasking
- Time Management
- Organizational Skills
- Attention to Detail
- Strong computer knowledge and skills with a minimum typing speed of 30 AW PM.
- Able to navigate multiple system applications.
- Prior retail sales or work in the healthcare industry (preferred)
We offer a competitive benefits package to our employees:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k w/ Match
- HSA/FSA
- Telemedicine
- Generous PTO Package
We also offer the following benefits for FREE:
- Employee Discounts and Perks
- Employee Assistance Program
- Group Life/AD&D
- Short Term Disability Insurance
- Long Term Disability Insurance
EyeSouth Partners is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.