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.
Basic Qualifications: Experience
- 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.
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