Job Title:  Optician

Department: Optical

Location: Reed Eye – Pittsford - 500 Kreag Rd, Pittsford, NY 14534

Hours Per Week: Full-time

Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00a-5p, Every other Tuesday til 6p

Summary

Provides comprehensive patient care related to patient evaluation, prescription recommendation, eyewear selection, fitting and purchase, and coordination with other health care professionals.

Key Responsibilities:

Under general direction and with latitude for independent judgment:

• Fills ophthalmic eyeglass prescriptions specified by the MD or OD and makes final adjustments to the eyewear to the satisfaction of the patient. Evaluates prescriptions with consideration of the patient's vocational and recreational visual requirements. Makes recommendations for lenses and frames to suit patient needs.
• Measures the patient's bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, papillary distance, and optical centers of eyes using a millimeter rule and light reflex pupillometer.  Determines the patient's current lens prescription by using a lensometer or lens analyzer and the patient's current eyeglasses.
• Completes administrative and customer service tasks correctly and on time:  invoicing patients, cash handling, and financial arrangements with patients or responsible third parties to cover charges. Coordinates service support: inventory, equipment maintenance and repair, requisitioning of supplies, and materials. Recommends expenditures for equipment to management.  Uses specialized software to maintain customer database and report financial transactions.
• Assists patients in selecting frames according to style, color, coordinating frames with facial and eye measurements and ophthalmic prescription. Instructs patients in adapting to, wearing, and caring for eyeglasses and/or contact lenses.
• Prepares work orders, which may include instructions for grinding, coating, and fabricating eyeglasses. May perform finish lens grinding and/or communicate the work of processing to lab technicians to fill the work orders to specification. Verifies that the finished lenses have been ground and fabricated to specification. Heats, shapes, or bends plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses using hands, or pliers or other tools and materials to fit the patient. May perform lens-finishing work as needed.
• Maintains retail inventory, which involves meeting with sales representatives, ordering frames, lenses, and other supplies. Creates innovative and pleasing displays of merchandise to entice purchases. Maintains inventory utilizing sales management software.  Establishes and maintains relationships with optical labs, finish laboratories, and suppliers for the purpose of purchasing inventory, collecting equipment/product information, or resolving equipment/product problems.
• May fit and dispense contact lenses. As a Contact Lens Specialist, duties include pre-fit, preparation, and evaluation; diagnostic fit and evaluation; lens dispensing, patient education and delivery procedures; follow-up visits with patient/customer; and administrative issues.

Required Qualifications:

• Current New York State licensed Ophthalmic Dispenser
• At least one year of related optical experience
• Approved two-year associate degree program in ophthalmic dispensing required or has completed an approved two-year on-the-job training program under the supervision of a licensed ophthalmic dispenser, physician, or optometrist.

Demonstrated communications/analytical/operational skills including, but not limited to:

• Current knowledge of trends, services and products in the optical industry
• Sufficient technical knowledge/skills in optical software
• Flexibility to seek and incorporate input from others

Required Licensure/Certification Skills:

• Valid New York State Ophthalmic Dispenser License

Rochester General Health System is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran

EDUCATION:

LICENSES / CERTIFICATIONS: 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

M - Medium Work - Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects; Requires frequent walking, standing or squatting.

For disease specific care programs refer to the program specific requirements of the department for further specifications on experience and educational expectations, including continuing education requirements.

Any physical requirements reported by a prospective employee and/or employee’s physician or delegate will be considered for accommodations.

PAY RANGE:

$24.00 - $32.25Pittsford14534

The listed base pay range is a good faith representation of current potential base pay for a successful full time applicant. It may be modified in the future and eligible for additional pay components. Pay is determined by factors including experience, relevant qualifications, specialty, internal equity, location, and contracts.

Rochester Regional Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital or familial status, military or veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.