Health Technician (Optometry)

Job Title

VA Careers - Medical Support Assistant

Duties

The incumbent works under the general supervision of the Supervisor, Optometrist. The clinical supervision is provided by the optometrist or ophthalmologist as indicated. Major duties include but are not limited to:

1. Assist with efficient patient movement though the eye clinic. Demonstrates the agility to alter procedures to meet the special needs of our patient population.
2. Practice appropriate hand hygiene and infection control in a patient care setting. Includes understanding hygiene, cleaning, and disinfection of reusable medical equipment instrumentation and ophthalmic equipment.
3. Provide triage of patient telephone calls or optometry requests consistent with full performance.
4. Appropriately obtain optical measurements (pupillary distance, seg height for flat top bifocals/trifocals and progressives).
5. Perform eyeglass adjustments and minor spectacle repairs (screw and nose pad replacements).
6. Accurately transpose spectacle prescriptions from plus to minus cylinder when appropriate.
7. Follow eye clinic and patient care medical policies and procedures. Ability to write to basic standard operating procedures or documents for eye care tasks.

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday 7:45AM-4:15PM

Telework

Not Available

Functional Statement #

918442A, 918443A, 91844A, 91845A

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives

Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS)

Not Authorized