Doctor's Technician Jobs

Reports to: Store (Brand) Manager

Location: On-site Store Location

Are you passionate about helping others? Do you see yourself positively impacting the patient experience by being the meaningful first touchpoint at the store? At Stanton Optical/My Eyelab our Doctor’s Technicians carefully orchestrate an efficient flow and transition from our Clinical services team to our retail team. In this position, you will provide outstanding customer service to all patients while facilitating sales and fostering a strong partnership between our retail and clinical services teams.

About us:

My Eyelab and Stanton Optical are among the nation’s fastest growing, full-service retail optical centers. We are dedicated to offering customer service and quality eyewear at affordable prices to our patients and customers. As a leading optical retailer, we offer some of the nation's most desirable optical brands.

Our team members share and support the Vision, Mission and Values of our parent company, Now Optics. These include:

Vision: Modernizing the eye care experience for all people

Mission: Making eye care easy

Values: iCARE

• Respect: We see respect as prioritizing human relationships, being present, connecting with transparency and empathy.
• Integrity: We see integrity as building a foundation of trust with our customers, employees and stakeholders by communicating honestly, ensuring consistency and delivering on our commitments.
• Empowerment: We see empowerment as making purpose-driven decisions to support the company vision, showing appreciation for others, and taking care of the individuals we serve.
• Accountability: We see accountability as taking initiative, delivering our best in all we do, accepting responsibility for our actions and taking ownership of results.
• Collaboration: We see collaboration as combining the talents of a diverse group, offering proactive communication and being open-minded to new ideas.

Duties & Responsibilities:

As a Doctor’s Technician, this individual will work closely with the Brand Manager and Clinical Field Trainer to meet operational and clinical goals, with guidance from the Clinical Operations Department.

Physician Eyecare Group Clinical Duties

• Each Doctor Technician must satisfy all the Physician Eyecare group criteria to ensure proper clinical care.
• Each Doctor Technician may be directed to support clinical care by the local PEG doctor who is supervising must meet the requirements set forth by PEG, including the computer-based learning to ensure proper patient clinical care.
• Store conversion/performance (supplements, drops, retinal photos, therapy, etc)
• Each Doctor Technician should seek opportunities to enhance the patient's clinical experience.
• The role will also require this person to communicate effectively with the supervising PEG physician for all direction and guidance with regards to patient care within their store.
• Required to learn how to utilize local mode as a tool to enhance overall patient experience and perform when necessary with supervision from the PEG doctors.
• Ensure accuracy of patient history and personal information in the system
• The Physician Eyecare Group (PEG) provides all clinical services in each store, and PEG doctors provide supervision, direction and guidance to the Doctor’s Technicians to regarding but not limited to Diagnostic Pre-Testing, and Digital Refraction, Contact Lens care and executing all PEG clinical standards.
• Meet all training guidelines, procedures, protocols, and certification requirements and clinical standards developed by the Physician Eyecare Group.

• The metrics that will drive the clinical performance include but will not be limited to:

  • Prompt and proper completion of outside referrals

  • Store conversion/performance (supplements, drops, retinal photos, therapy, etc)

    
    
• Doctor Technicians communicate/order any clinical or contact lens supplies to keep the clinical operation running smoothly as may be required by the PEG physician from time to time.

• Achieve daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly PEG desired goals.

  • The metrics that will drive the clinical performance include but will not be limited to:

    • Prompt and proper completion of outside referrals

    • Store conversion/performance (supplements, drops, retinal photos, therapy, etc)

      
      
• Prompt and proper completion of outside referrals
• Doctor Technicians must provide proper insertion and removal of contact lenses for new and existing contact lens wearers.

Operational Duties

• Patient’s sentiment towards telehealth experience
• Recheck Rate
• Schedule and confirm appointments
• Walk in vs. Scheduled Appointments Rate
• Foster a strong partnership between the retail team and professional services.
• Be part of delivering an outstanding patient experience, collaborating with other team members to accomplish store goals, clinical metrics and initiatives.
• Pretest Time

• The metrics that will drive the clinical operational performance include but will not be limited to:

  • Pretest Wait Time

  • Pretest Time

  • Proper chart completion through tech actions for the doctor

  • Patient’s sentiment towards telehealth experience

  • Exam Only Rate (Count and Percentage)

  • Recheck Rate

  • Walk in vs. Scheduled Appointments Rate

• Ensure brand standards by performing basic housekeeping duties when necessary.

• Achieve daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly desired goals.

  • The metrics that will drive the clinical operational performance include but will not be limited to:

    • Pretest Wait Time

    • Pretest Time

    • Proper chart completion through tech actions for the doctor

    • Patient’s sentiment towards telehealth experience

    • Exam Only Rate (Count and Percentage)

    • Recheck Rate

    • Walk in vs. Scheduled Appointments Rate

• Exam Only Rate (Count and Percentage)
• Assist Management Team with patient complaint resolution and inform the status of pending orders; ensure all patient expectations are met.
• Proper chart completion through tech actions for the doctor
• Pretest Wait Time
• Greet our patients and customers as they enter the store, identify patients' needs to ensure an easy and memorable experience while providing promotions on products and services available. Answer customers' inquiries and gather necessary information to facilitate sales.

• Other duties as assigned and required.
• Maintain patient records confidential and secure in accordance with HIPAA requirements.

Key Qualifications

• You implement active listening, build rapport, and empathize with the patients.
• You have a high school diploma or equivalent.
• You have 2+ years of experience delivering outstanding customer service to patients and/or customers.
• You have a passion for customer satisfaction and maintain a positive demeanor.
• You have a collaborative spirit, while building respectful and cordial relationships with your team and patients.
• You have the skills necessary to communicate effectively with a diverse group of people.
• You are driven by results and have the ability to multitask, prioritize and be flexible with changing business needs in a team environment.
• You remain proactive and execute problem solving skills to address potential patients’ concerns or rebuttals.

Skills Required

• Computer Knowledge
• Ability to use discretion while working with sensitive information.
• Organizational/Multitasking Skills
• Passionate about eye care excellence and exceptional customer service experience.

Are you the perfect fit?

• Do you have schedule flexibility? Work hours will be determined based on business needs
• Are you passionate about outstanding customer/patient care and eager to share that passion with others?
• Optical experience is a plus.
• Are you consistently promoting high work standards while empowering others to have an entrepreneurial mentality with our company?
• Do you enjoy working with technology and are curious about current innovations?
• Do you have a strong interest in learning, embracing and fostering innovation among your team?
• Do you share our vision of modernizing eye care for all people and making eye care easy?

Now Optics d/b/a Stanton Optical and My Eye Lab Brands is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at our company are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or certain classifications based on genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws, regulations or ordinances.

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