Health Technician (Ophthalmology)

Job Title

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Checks and performs calibration of technical ophthalmology screening instruments.
• Obtains a detailed patient history, to include chief complaint; reason or visit; pertinent signs and symptoms; current medication allergies; past ocular and general medical history both ocular and general; family history both ocular and general; social history; and review of medications and allergies, including current ocular prescription and non-prescription medications.
• Accurately tests visual acuity at distance and near, with and without correction, or with and without a pinhole.
• Measures eyeglass prescription using manual or automated lensometer, recording sphere, cylinder, axis, and prism in both plus and minus cylinder.
• Performs pupil evaluation recording pupil size, shape, symmetry, reaction to light and accommodation. Performs swinging flashlight test to detect a relative afferent pupillary defect.
• Performs basic refractometry utilizing an auto refraction or habitual glass prescription in the phoropter or with a trial frame and lenses.
• Instills eye medications (drops or ointments, including anesthetic, dye, dilating drops, cycloplegic drops, or antibiotics) following a protocol or under the direction of an eye provider (ophthalmologist or optometrist).
• Measures intraocular pressure with standard techniques, including Goldmann applanation tonometry, tonopen, or rebound tonometer.
• Performs corneal pachymetry using a handheld or ocular coherence tomography device to determine corneal thickness.
• Performs manual keratometry or automated topography to determine corneal curvature.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm

Telework: Not available.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 61422F

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized