Ophthalmic Assistant, Ophthalmology, UT Health Austin

Job Posting Title:

Ophthalmic Assistant, Ophthalmology, UT Health Austin

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Hiring Department:

Department of Ophthalmology

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

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FLSA Status:

Non-Exempt

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Earliest Start Date:

Immediately

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue

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Location:

UT MAIN CAMPUS

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Job Details:

Purpose

The Ophthalmic Assistant delivers quality patient care with a professional and caring attitude. Respects patient confidentiality.  Performs all tests requested by physicians.  Must have high energy level, flexibility, and a desire to learn.

Responsibilities

• Standard patient workup including, but not exclusively:  Obtain histories and review of systems, input and update medications, assessments of vision, IOP, extraocular muscle function, confrontational visual fields, pupil reactivity. Also, Lensometry, Amsler Grid, color plates, stereopsis, applanation tonometry, and stereopsis, auto and manifest refractions, dilation.

• Ophthalmic testing to include A/B Scan, fluorescein/indocyanine green angiography imaging, automated visual fields, OCT, fundus photography, and IOL Master, spectral microscopy, ERG, patient education, maintain records according to AMA guidelines

• Coordination of daily schedules, liaison with physician and staff, concierge desk, and surgery scheduling, completion of reports for nursing homes, insurance, DMV., electronic medical record entry, medication refills, patient calls, and other related duties, attend In-services and Ophthalmic Grand Rounds

• Attend In-services and Ophthalmic Grand Rounds

• Open and close exam lanes insuring that all equipment is maintained and functioning properly, stocking and restocking exam rooms with necessary eye drops, consumables, and other medications used during eye exams, maintaining individual physician preference sheets, equipment such as lenses, and instruments

• Assisting physician with EMR entry as required, other duties as assigned including equipment cleaning, ability to translate and assist with in-office surgeries

Required Qualifications

High School Diploma, prefer some college, previous patient care experience in ophthalmology

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

Current JCAHPO COA Certification

Salary Range

$42,000+ depending on qualifications

Working Conditions

• Combination of office, exam, and other clinical settings.

• Frequent exposure to communicable diseases, biohazards, toxic substances, medicinal preparations, and other conditions common to a clinic setting.  

• May involve standing and walking for extensive periods of time. 

• Occasionally lifts and carries items. ​

Required Materials

• Resume/CV

• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor

• Letter of interest

Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded.  Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.

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Employment Eligibility:

Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without