Optometric Technician Jobs

Total Vision LLC is a group of highly successful optometry practices that have aligned towards a common goal of world-class eye-care results for its patients and California communities. We are a company that is seeing significant growth and are looking for top-notch team members with the passion, energy, focus and commitment to excel in this type of environment.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Advocate for overall health evaluation (i.e. Optomap).
• Perform pretesting including blood pressure, NCT, color and stereo, and autoperimetry.
• Warmly greet incoming patients upon taking them back for pretesting before the exam.
• Order various types of contact lenses.
• Administrative duties including answering telephones, scheduling patient appointments per doctor preferences and transcribing messages for return calls and faxes.
• Maintain and clean equipment and doctor’s lanes.
• Conduct contact lens insertion and removal training.
• Collect and relay pertinent health and ocular history to the doctor.
• Maintain proper levels of pretest/doctor supplies.

Required Skills/Knowledge:

• Ability to multi-task, set priorities and ensure that patient commitments/deadlines are met.
• Demonstrated flexibility in addressing a broad spectrum of patient requirements and preferences.
• Proficiency in utilization of automated equipment and systems standard to the optometry industry.
• Demonstrated ability to cultivate positive patient rapport and build relationships while increase patient-retention.
• Strong communication skills (oral and written) with the proven ability to manage priorities in a fast paced environment.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma, GED or equivalent.
• Experience in the Ophthalmic/Optometric/medical industry is a plus but is not required.

Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Must be physically able to stand for long periods of time, read a computer screen for long periods of time, reach, and lift up to 20 lbs. Hand dexterity, and eye and hand coordination critical. Employee is subject to inside environmental conditions. Employee’s schedule could include after hour projects, as needed. Travel, as needed between practices. Saturday availability is required.
This description is not intended to include all job duties. Team members may be requested to do other job-related tasks other than those listed here.
Total Vision Care is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.