Optical Team Member / Optician - Training Provided!

Optical Technician (Optician)

Clarkson Eyecare is seeking an Optical Technician (Optician) in Wildwood, MO. EyeCare Partners, the nation's leading provider of clinically integrated eye care, offers a full benefits package, 401k with employer matching, paid time off, paid holidays, paid maternity leave, competitive base pay, and employee discounts.

Our offices are open Monday-Friday 8am-7pm, Saturday 8am-1pm. You may need to work a little earlier and/or later as needed. You must have open availability to work any shift within these hours.

An Optical Technician will achieve a world-class Total Patient Experience that maximizes retail sales while also supporting the patients' medical needs. This team member is trained to dispense and fit glasses and contacts, working from the prescriptions written by Optometrists and Ophthalmologists. They connect the patient's needs to the goods and services we offer.

Essential duties and responsibilities include embracing and executing our Total Patient Experience to build relationships with all patients while delivering great medical support, determining patients' wants and needs and selling to exceed their expectations, assisting patients in selecting frames according to style and color, coordinating frames with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions, operating the auto-lensometer and manual lensometer, educating and recommending specific lenses, lens coatings and frames to suit patient needs, accurately collecting measurements such as bridge, eye size, temple length, seg heights, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and pantoscopic tilt, dispensing patient orders and repairing and adjusting patient frames, ensuring all job aids and policies are followed, maintaining frame standards with cleaning and organization of fully stocked and well-presented areas, following all protocols to keep frame inventory accurate, general office duties and cleaning to be assigned by manager, and assisting with other duties in the office as needed.

Qualifications include communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills, ability to read, analyze and interpret insurance forms, ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals, ability to write routine reports and correspondence, ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization, HIPAA compliance, favorable result on background check as required by state, ability to provide proof of identity and right to work in the United States, high school diploma or GED required, previous medical office experience preferred; previous ophthalmic experience strongly preferred, minimum of 1 year in a position interacting with customers/patients or the equivalent combination of education and experience, current ABO/ABOC and NCLE certifications (or obtained with first 2 years of employment) preferred, but not required, proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and physical requirements including frequent walking, sitting, and standing, with regular bending, stooping, and reaching, lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling items up to 25 lbs, strong fine motor skills, full use of hands, constant grasping, writing/typing, and use of technology, visual and auditory acuityincluding color, depth, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focusrequired 100% of the time, occasional driving or climbing may also be necessary.