Optician Assistant, Optical Services

JOB SUMMARY: 

Under general supervision, performs a variety of general clinical and administrative functions, patient care activities, and optometry diagnostic tests.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• High school diploma or GED equivalent required.
• One-year experience working in a medical environment involving patient care, medical terminology, and routine office procedures preferred.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

1. Records patient information such as ocular history, family history, previous adverse drug reactions and allergies, systemic illness, and details of present medications. 2. Established rapport with patients during diagnostic tests and examinations. 3. Administers color vision tests, lensometry and checks visual acuity. Performs tonometry with Tonopen. Conducts Keratometry, autorefraction, stereo acuity testing, and corneal thickness measurements. Dilates eyes when necessary. 4. Trains patients on proper care of contact lenses; including insertion, removal and cleaning. 5. Performs routine maintenance of equipment using established methods of cleaning and sterilization. 6. Advises patients of appointment and direct/escort to proper examining room. 7. Answers phone, retrieves and files medical records, notifies patients when contacts/glasses are ready. 8. Performs routine maintenance, i.e. repairs, cleaning, and adjustments on equipment. 9. Performs other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:

• Excellent interpersonal and clerical skills.
• Good math skills.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Combination of medical office and exam/procedure rooms.
• Well-lighted, well-ventilated, and adequate space.
• Frequent exposure to diseases, medicinal preparations and other conditions common to a clinic environment.

 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.