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Optometrist (Low Vision)
4 months ago
The Battle Creek VA Medical Center has an immediate opening for a staff optometrist. The Optometrist providers both comprehensive eye care as well as low vision eye care services to support both the eye clinic and blind rehabilitation clinic.
This is an Open Continuous Announcement. The selection process for this announcement involves a bi-weekly review of applicants, those who meet the criteria will be referred to the selecting official.
Duties
The staff optometrist duties include but are not limited to the following:
- Provide low vision care to legally blind/visually impaired patients as appropriate as part of the Visual Impairment Services Outpatient Rehabilitation (VISOR team); collaborate with blind rehabilitation specialists (BRS) and visual impairment services team (VIST) coordinators on treatment plans for patients [50% time]
- Provide routine and disease-specific vision care to patients as part of the eye clinic [50% time]
- Independently examine, diagnose, treat, and manage ocular conditions, diseases, and injuries as specified by the State Board of Optometric Practice
- Ordering appropriate laboratory and/or imaging studies
- Prescribing ocular prosthetic devices (spectacles, contact lenses, prisms, artificial eyes and low vision aids)
- Provide consultative reports to requesting primary care physicians, staff and specialists
- Refer patients requiring care outside scope of optometry practice
- Opportunity to supervise, educate, and train interns, residents, and ophthalmic trainees
- Certify as a reader in Tele-eye program
- Certify as a Compensation and Pension (C&P) provider
- Provide administrative support to service
- Functions and responsibilities include but are not limited to: eye care treatment planning, optometry clinic patient assessment, optometry clinic follow-up patient visits, optometry peer review, optometry grand rounds, and optometry strategic planning.
- Exercise corporate citizenship by serving as leader and/or active member on Medical Center committees as requested
- Works in a proficient and self-directed manner in order to accomplish all clinical and administrative duties
Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of annual paid time offer per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year, 12 weeks of paid parental leave for eligible employees, and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm.
