Ophthalmic Assistant

Job Summary:

As a member of the Eye Care team at Kaiser Permanente, the Ophthalmic Assistant - Certified Professional provides technical and patient care support in a clinic or on the phone. In the clinic, the role involves performing measurement and evaluation tests, as well as specified procedures. On the phone, the professional acts as a triage point for urgent, emergent, and general Eye Care needs, supporting the fitting of contact lenses and providing patient instruction.

Key Responsibilities:

Patient Assessment: Anticipates and recognizes changes in the patient's eye health status and needs for eye care.

History taking: Presents the patient's complaint/history of presenting illness, past ocular history, family history, systemic illness, past and present, medications, allergies, and drug reactions.

Clinical Exam: Performs basic testing skills, including measuring and recording acuity, color vision testing, lensometry, A-scan biometry, Exophthalmometry Amsler Grid, Schirmer, Tests Evaluation of Pupils, Estimation of Anterior chamber depth, and Visual field evaluation.

Patient Services Procedures: Ocular dressings and shields, drug delivery, spectacle principles, assisting patients, minor surgery assist, and instruction.

Instrument Maintenance: Acuity projectors, ophthalmoscopes, retinoscopes, lensometers, perimeters, tangent screen, phoropters, slit lamps, ultrasound, keratometers, lenses, tonometers, muscle light, special instruments, and surgical instruments.

Patient Care: Encourages patient compliance with established therapeutic and medical treatment, promotes patient self-care responsibility for meeting their own eye health needs, and adheres to Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington documentation standards. Provides a safe environment for each patient and adheres to Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington safety standards.

Requirements:

High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.

Registered Medical Assistant (Washington) within 2 months of hire.

Ophthalmic Assistant Certificate required at hire from The Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology.

Basic Life Support required at hire.

Customer service skills.

Computer experience in a MS Windows environment; keyboarding skills.

General medical knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, anatomy, physiology, systemic diseases, ocular diseases, ocular emergencies, and metric conversion fundamentals of microbial control.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working with contact lens patients and products.

Experience working in an ophthalmology or optometry practice.

Graduate of an accredited medical assistant, ophthalmic assistant, or allied health professional program.

Company: Kaiser Permanente

Title: Ophthalmic Assistant - Certified Professional (Per Diem Everett)

Location: Everett, Washington

REQNUMBER: 1285870

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state, and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.