Ophthalmic Assistant-Certified

Job Summary:

As an Ophthalmic Assistant-Certified, you will provide technical and patient care support in a clinic or on the phone as a member of the Eye Care team. In clinic, you will perform measurement and evaluation tests, and perform specified procedures. On phone, you will act as a triage point for urgent, emergent, and general Eye Care needs. You may support fitting of contact lenses and provide patient instruction.

Essential Responsibilities:Patient Assessment:

You will anticipate and recognize changes in the patient's eye health status and needs for eye care. In clinic, you will take a patient's history, including presenting complaint, past ocular history, family history, systemic illness, past and present medications, allergies, and drug reactions. On phone, you will use the Eye Care triage process to provide telephone consultation to patients and determine priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available resources.

Clinical Exam (clinic only):

You will perform basic testing skills, including methods of 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.

Perform Patient Services Procedures:

You will perform ocular dressings and shields, drug delivery, spectacle principles, assisting patients, minor surgery assist and instruction.

Instrument Maintenance:

You will maintain acuity projectors, ophthalmoscopes, retinoscopes, lensometers, perimeters, tangent screen, phoropters, slit lamps, ultrasound, keratometers, lenses, tonometers, muscle light, special instruments, and surgical instruments.

Patient Care:

You will 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, and provide a safe environment for each patient and adhere to Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington safety standards.

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