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Ophthalmic Assistant
1 month ago
As an Ophthalmic Assistant - Certified Professional at Kaiser Permanente, you will provide technical and patient care support in a clinic or on the phone as a member of the Eye Care team. Your responsibilities will include performing measurement and evaluation tests, and specified procedures in clinic, and acting as a triage point for urgent, emergent and general Eye Care needs on the phone. You may also support fitting of contact lenses and provide patient instruction.
Essential Responsibilities:
Patient Assessment:
Anticipate and recognize changes in the patients eye health status and needs for eye care. In clinic, take a comprehensive patient history, including presenting complaint/history of presenting illness, past ocular history, family history, systemic illness, past and present, medications, allergies and drug reactions. On the phone, use the Eye Care triage process to provide telephone consultation to patients, determine priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available resources.
Clinical Exam (clinic only)
Basic Testing Skills:
Perform methods of measuring/recording acuity, color vision testing, lensometry, A-scan biometry, Exophthalmometry Amsler Grid, Schirmer, Tests Evaluation of Pupils, Estimation of Anterior chamber depth, Visual field evaluation.
Perform Patient Services Procedures:
Apply ocular dressings and shields, deliver drugs, apply spectacle principles, assist patients, assist with minor surgery and provide instruction.
Instrument Maintenance:
Maintain acuity projectors, ophthalmoscopes, retinoscopes, lensometers, perimeters, tangent screen, phoropters, slit lamps, ultrasound, keratometers, lenses, tonometers, muscle light, special instruments, surgical instruments.
Patient Care:
Encourage patient compliance with established therapeutic and medical treatment. Promote patient self-care responsibility for meeting their own eye health needs. Adhere to Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington documentation standards. Provide a safe environment for each patient and adhere to Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington safety standards.
In clinic, apply basic principles, fitting procedures, patient instruction, trouble-shooting problems, verification of lenses, cash handling, retail opinions for contact lenses.
Appointing:
Clinic - Check-in or make follow up appointments. Phone - Provide appropriate schedule guidance through use of technical skill and judgement along with established protocols.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
N/A
Education
High School Diploma OR General Education Development (GED) required.
License, Certification, Registration
Registered Medical Assistant (Washington) within 2 months of hire
Ophthalmic Assistant Certificate required at hire from The Joint Commission on Allied Health Personel in Opthomology
Basic Life Support required at hire
Additional Requirements:
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
TITLE:
Ophthalmic Assistant-Certified - (TPT Silverdale)
LOCATION:
Silverdale, Washington
REQNUMBER:
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.
