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Responsibilities

• • Works up patients
• • Performs pretesting and diagnostic testing
• • Assists physicians with procedures
• • Assists physicians with documentation in the EHR
• • Scribes for physicians when needed
• • Maintains exam rooms including stocking and cleaning
• • Checks and stocks travel bags and equipment for satellites
• • Assists with maintaining and ordering medical supplies
• • Travels to satellite locations as needed
• • Provides on-going training of Patient Care Assistants
• • Maintains knowledge of and follows policies, procedures, Code of Conduct, and all Federal and state rules and regulations related to the position.
• • Attends all required compliance trainings.
• • Fill RX refill request
• • Triage patients/decides if/when follow up is necessary.
• • Return patient phone calls/answering questions or concerns
• • Completes all required compliance training.
• • Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted, or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing.

Experience Requirements

1 year

• High School diploma or equivalent is required; a minimum of one (1) year ophthalmic clinical experience is preferred; experience with electronic health records is preferred.

Skills

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• • Knowledge of anatomy of the eye, ocular conditions and ocular imaging equipment
• • Ability to do a basic slit lamp exam, refract the patient and use the following equipment: auto-refractor, tonometry, visual fields, OCT, pachymetry, corneal topography, Optical Biometry (including IOL Master and/or Lenstar), B-scan and A-Scan
• • Ability to transfer mobile patients to exam chair and occasionally move patients in a wheelchair
• • Good problem solving and decision-making skills
• • Good interpersonal and customer service skills
• • Good dexterity
• • Good computer skills including use of standard office programs
• • Ability to perform tasks in a timely manner
• • Ability to speak, read, and write in English
• • Ability to pleasantly and effectively communicate both orally and in writing
• • Ability to operate standard office equipment
• • Ability to concentrate, think, and learn
• • Ability to hear, see, sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, lift, push, and pull.

Education Requirements