Ophthalmic Technician/scribe

**About the Practice**:
**Retina and Uveitis Center (RUC)** is a new and growing ophthalmology practice providing sub-specialty care in the fields of Vitreoretinal Diseases and Uveitis at Tysons Corner. The center currently is a solo-practice with plans for growth and expansion.

The position of the **Ophthalmic Technician/Scribe **requires exceptional clinical and communicational skills and flexibility to provide reliable assistance in an ophthalmology sub-specialty clinic. It is the responsibility of the entire staff, including the technician, to ensure highest level of patient care and referring doctor satisfaction through various responsibilities including precise and systematic patient work-ups, efficient clinic flow, consistent implementation of policy and procedures, sustained training, and unremitting compliance.

**Qualifications**
- **Experience**:

- Ophthalmic technician, 1+ year (preferred)
- Ophthalmology medical office, 1+ year (preferred)

**List of Responsibilities and Duties include, but not limited to**:

- Performing comprehensive patient work-ups, efficient and detailed communication during documentation of chief complaint, past medical and surgical history, and medications
- Facilitating efficient clinic flow
- Communication with patients regarding symptoms, follow-up care, surgeries, procedures, changes in schedule, etc.
- Maintaining and cleaning all clinical and office equipment, reporting to supervisor if any malfunctions
- Returning phone calls to patients, referring doctor offices and pharmacies
- Obtaining prior-authorizations
- Surgery scheduling
- Ability to perform applanation tonometry, confrontational visual fields, pupillary examinations
- Providing Amsler grid instructions
- Scribing in detail with reliable documentation and efficient computer skills
- Assistance to physician with intraocular injections, while maintaining practice standards of sterile technique and infection control
- Assistance to physician with laser procedures

**Preferred Skills and Abilities include, but not limited to**:

- Full understanding of importance of maintaining patient confidentiality and adherence to OSHA, HIPAA, and healthcare guidelines
- Baseline knowledge of eye anatomy, eye diseases, symptoms and ocular medications
- Ability to perform optical coherence tomography (OCT), fundus photography (FP)
- Consistent and constant utilization of proper eye drop techniques and sterility
- Understanding of procedures and protocols for obtaining surgical and procedural informed consents
- Flexibility in job assignment, and participation in cross-training
- Initiative approach in accomplishing practice goals and optimization
- If selected you will be contacted for a phone/video meeting, followed by an in-person interview.

**Employment with Retina and Uveitis Center (RUC)** **is contingent upon successful completion of a background check, which may include, but is not limited to; contacting your professional references, verification of previous employment, addresses, education, and credentials, a criminal background check, and drug screening.**

Pay: $24.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Paid time off

Medical specialties:

- Ophthalmology

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

**Experience**:

- Ophthalmology: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person