Optometric Technician
Requisition Number: 39174 Job Location: Celebration, FloridaPremise's mission is to help people get, stay, and be well. We hope you will join us in our mission and experience why amazing health starts with amazing healthcare. For more information, visit www.jobs.premisehealth.com.
As a Part-Time Optometric Technician, you'll provide care to client employees and their dependents in our Health Center located in Celebration, FL. The scheduled hours are 20 hours per week, Monday and Friday, 8am-6pm. Occasional Saturdays 9am-1pm.
What You'll Do
- Greets and assists patients in a timely and friendly manner
- Prepares patients for examination
- Takes patient history and other preliminary patient data
- Performs simple non-invasive testing of visual acuity, pupils, and ocular motility
- Performs automated visual field testing, ophthalmic photography, and digital imaging
- Performs tonometry, auto lensometry, and non-subjective auto refraction
- Maintains electronic medical records
- Coordinates referral appointments for patients for diagnostic testing, evaluations, and treatment based on insurance type and according to provider-stated urgency
- Documents and reports back to providers if unable to complete referral as requested
- Files reports, labs, progress notes, prescriptions, and other incoming optometric reports
- Assists patient with materials purchases
- Pulls charts upon request
- Maintains appropriate quality control logs
- Ensures that all encounter forms are complete and accurate
- Repairs spectacles as brought in by patients
- May answer phones and directs calls appropriately
- May require other duties as assigned
What You'll Bring
- High School diploma or equivalent
- COA or COT certification preferred
- Optometric-related experience required
- Two to three years previous experience in an ophthalmology/optometry office performing initial examinations and diagnostic testing preferred
Work-life balance is at the foundation of how decisions are made and where Premise is headed. We can only help people get, stay, and be well if we do the same for ourselves. In addition to competitive pay, Premise offers our part-time (between 20 and 29 hours per week) team members a 401(k) program with company match, paid holidays and vacation time, a company-sponsored wellness program, EAP, access to virtual primary care and virtual behavioral health at no cost for team members and their dependents. Additional benefits will be discussed once you connect with our Talent Acquisition team.
Premise is an equal opportunity employer; we value inclusion and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy and related conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.