Optician - Start a Career That Makes an Impact

Description

The Medical Associates Optical Department is looking for a Full-Time Non-Certified or Certified Optician to join our team! No previous experience required! Paid training and certification are sponsored!

Schedule: Monday through Friday, covering hours between 8:00am and 5:00pm, working 80 hours per pay period. Full-Benefits Eligible!

Location: Medical Associates West Campus. This role may be asked to provide occasional coverage at other locations.

Benefits Package includes:

• Single or Family Health Insurance with discounted premium rates for wellness program participation.
• 401k with immediate matching (50% on the dollar up to 7% of pay + additional annual Profit Sharing)
• Flexible Paid Time Off Program (24 days off/year)
• Medical and Dependent Care Flex Spending Accounts
• Life insurance, Long Term Disability Coverage, Short Term Disability Coverage, Dental Insurance, etc.

What You’ll be Doing:

• Influence patients with the selecting eyewear to encourage sales. Adjust eye wear to patient and make any necessary repairs using appropriate tools. Instruct patient on cleaning and handling.
• Interpret prescription and help patients choose appropriate eyewear, consulting with prescribing physicians as appropriate.
• Supplement office staff as reception tasks permit by assisting with photocopying, computer input/typing, and enter payments/charges into computer opticianry.
• Complete all other assigned projects and duties.
• Greet customers in person and via telephone in polite, prompt, helpful manner. Provide any necessary instructions/directions and inform appropriate department/person of persons arrival.
• Maintain clean, orderly waiting area including beverage area and reading materials.
• Update patient information, collect copays, provide any necessary forms needing completion, and obtain signatures as necessary.
• Complete necessary paperwork such as encounter forms and parking validations. Use computer system to generate information necessary for billing.

Knowledge and Skills:

Experience: One to three years of similar or related experience.

Education: Equivalent to a high school education.

Interpersonal Skills: Courtesy, tact, and diplomacy are essential elements of the job. Work involves personal contact with others inside and/or outside the organization, generally regarding routine matters for purposes of giving or obtaining information which may require some discussion.

Other Skills: Must have current certification by American Board of Opticianry or be willing to obtain certification.

Physical Aspects:

Reaching - Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Lifting - Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.

Fingering - Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.

Grasping - ing pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Feeling - Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

Talking - Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly or quickly.

Hearing - Perceiving the nature of sound with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machined parts.

Vision - 20 / 40 or better in the best eye with or without correction.

Repetitive Motions - Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands and/or fingers.

Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Medical Associates Clinic & Health Plans is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, marital status, parental status, disability, veteran status, or other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.