Chief Optometrist

This position is located at the Hopi Health Care Center, in Polacca, Arizona. The Chief of Optometry provides clinical services, consultation and guidance to all areas of the service unit, including outpatient, inpatient, and emergency room. The incumbent develops, coordinates, and evaluates a comprehensive eye care program for the facility. In addition, the incumbent assures coordination and referral of care for patients with complex eye disease requiring services beyond the scope of HHCC.

• Plan, implement and direct the optometry eye care program. Establish and maintain working policies of the eye clinic (i.e. scope of services, daily operation policy, short and long term goals and objectives in response to patient care needs); assure adequate staffing of the optometry clinic; develop or direct the development of procedure manuals for the optometry program and establish and maintain effective quality control and performance improvement.
• Provide emergency eye care services including diagnosis and treatment of ophthalmic trauma and pathology consistent with hospital clinical privileges.
• Detect neuromuscular impairment or anomalies of binocular function.
• Develop, implement, evaluate and revise department specific objectives, priorities, policies, procedures which are consistent with those for the overall eye care program.
• Responsible for the direct supervision of optometry staff, students and volunteers, including: employee performance reviews, position description revisions, monitoring mandatory hospital training attendance, approving leave, approving travel and training, conducting disciplinary/corrective actions as needed, processing incident reports and corrective actions, appropriately addressing concerns raised by employees or labor union representatives, coordinating staff schedules to maintain appropriate coverage etc.