Ophthalmic Technician I- Pediatric, Monroeville

Monroeville, Pennsylvania

Employer: UPMC Senior Communities
Industry: Physician Services
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
UPMC Optomology is hiring an Ophthalmic Technician at their new Monroeville office! This is a Monday-Friday, Daylight Position. No nights, weekends, or holidays! If you are looking for a position with a new office and lots of growth potential, this position is for you!!

Responsibilities:
  • Refractometry: auto-refractor, transposing scripts from + to -
  • Contact lenses: insertion, removal, and instructions
  • Pupillary assessment: measurement, comparison, and evaluation.
  • History taking to include ocular, medical, medication, social, and family.
  • Lensometry: automated and manual
  • Angle assessment & dilation of pupils
  • Assist with maintaining office inventory, notifying appropriate staff when supplies are needed, restocking exam rooms, cleaning and sterilizing instruments, and cleaning patient exam rooms at the end of the day.
  • Visual fields: Amsler grid & confrontation fields
  • Supplemental skills: Color testing, glare test
  • Ocular Motility: Knowledge of the functions & anomalies, cover tests, stereo-acuity, nystagmus
  • Tonometry: Icare, Tonopen, and the care and proper disinfection of
  • Visual acuity assessment: with and without correction, distance, near and intermediate, pinhole, best corrected, potential acuity, brightness acuity


Qualifications:

  • High school diploma or equivalent is required.
  • Experience as an Ophthalmic Technician in an Ophthalmology office or a combination of related education and/or experience is preferred.
  • Completion of AAO Home Study Course is preferred.
    Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
    Valid CPR certification
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
  • Act 31 Child Abuse Reporting with renewal
  • Act 33 with renewal
  • Act 34 with renewal
  • Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

UPMC has a Center for Engagement and Inclusion that is charged with executing leading-edge and next-generation diversity strategies to advance the organization's diversity management capability and its national presence as a diversity leader. This includes having Employee Resource Groups, such as PRIDE Health or UPMC ENABLED (Empowering Abilities and Leveraging Differences) Network, which support the implementation of our diversity strategy.
Created: 2024-06-08
Reference: 6067227290
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
City: Monroeville

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Number of Employees: 110000