Associate Optometrist Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Associate Optometrist to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Perform vision tests and analyze results;
- Evaluate patients for the presence of diseases and refer to other healthcare providers as needed;
- Attend staff meetings;
- Communicates with parents, teachers and providers;
- Contact lens knowledge that includes evaluations, troubleshooting and fitting;
- Knowledge of oculomotor and visual learning-related symptoms;
- Team with specialists to co-manage patients;
- Understanding and identification of oculomotor and visual learning related symptoms;
- Co-management of patients with specialists as needed including post-operative eye care will be expected;
- Specialty contact lens fitting;
- Attends and contributes at staff meetings to keep up with events and policy changes;
- Operate an OCT in the medical management of patient;
- Performance of customer service related protocols;
- Ensure flawless accuracy in taking measurements and diagnosing ocular conditions;
- Examine patients having a full range of visual problems by using a full field of optometry instruments and techniques.
Requirements:
- Basic Optometry Training;
- Must have OD degree;
- Doctor of Optometry;
- Higher education degree;
- No experience is necessary; on the job training is provided;
- Customer and team focused;
- Basic Optometry and Paraoptometric training;
- Basic coding skills;
- Data-entry software knowledge;
- Patient-focused;
- Optometric testing experience;
- State licensed or certified as an Optometrist;
- Caring, personable and organized;
- Graduation from an accredited school of Optometry required;
- Patient-focused customer service.