Technician Ophthalmic II - (Spokane - TPT) Job Listing at Kaiser Permanente in Spokane, WA (Job ID 3622978-2024-07-20)

Description

Job Summary:
The Ophthalmic Technician II provides technical and patient care support to the Ophthalmology or Optometry Department and/or Doctors through participation as an Eye Care team member.
Essential Responsibilities:

• History taking: Presenting complaint/history of presenting illness, past ocular history, family history, systemic illness, past and present, medications, allergies and drug reactions.


• Basic Tonometry: Indentation, applanation, non-contact complications/contraindications, factors alerting intraocular pressure.


• Instrument Maintenance: Acuity projectors, ophthalmoscopes, retinoscopes, lensometers, perimeters, tangent screen, phoropters, slit lamps, ultrasound, keratometers, lenses, tonometers, muscle light, special instruments, surgical instruments.


• Perform Patient Services Procedures: Ocular dressings and shields, Drug delivery, spectacle principles, assisting patient, minor surgery assist and instruction.


• Basic Testing Skills and Lensometry: methods of measuring/recording acuity, color vision testing, lensometry, A-scan biometry, Exophthalmometry Amsler Grid, Schirmer, Tests Evaluation of Pupils, Estimation of Anterior chamber depth, Visual field evaluation.

• Minimum one (1) year of experience working in ophthalmology/optometry practice.

• High School Diploma OR General Education Development (GED) required.

• Registered Medical Assistant (Washington) within .5 months of hire
  

• Basic Life Support required at hire
  

• Ophthalmic Assistant Certificate required at hire
  

• General medical knowledge: cardiopulmonary resuscitation; anatomy; physiology; systemic diseases; ocular diseases; ocular emergencies; metric conversion fundamentals of microbial control.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• PC experience in a MS Windows environment, keyboarding skills.
• Strong customer service and recovery skills.

• Experience working with imaging technology (OCT, HRT, Photos, etc.)
• Experience working with electronic medical records (EMR).
• National Contact Lens Examiners (NCLE) certification by date of hire/transfer.
• Medical Assistant-Certified credential or Interim Medical Assistant-Certified credential by date of hire/transfer.
• Washington State Department of Health issued credential Interim credential expires one (1) year from date of issuance.
• Experience working with contact lens patients and products.
• Desire to continue skill training and acquire advanced certifications.
• Graduate of an accredited medical assistant, ophthalmic assistant or allied health professional program.