Optical Dispenser

4 weeks ago


La Mesa, California, United States Kaiser Permanente Full time

Job Summary:

Under limited supervision, the Optical Dispenser measures pupil distance and bridgewidth, adjusts eyeglass frames, and assists patients in selecting optical items to conform with corresponding optical prescriptions and established procedures.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Assists patients with optical selections.
  • Recommends and displays various designs, colors, and shapes of eyeglass frames available and compatible to patients' prescriptions and facial features.
  • Quotes prices from fee schedules.
  • Neutralizes spectacles with a lensometer and performs measurements with a pupilometer, distometer, and other progressive optical measuring devices.
  • Records frame, lens specification, and other related items such as non-prescribed dark glasses and cleaning fluids.
  • Examines glasses received from the laboratory to ensure conformity with the prescription.
  • Verifies the prescription with a lensometer.
  • Modifies lenses to fit frames and adjusts frames to fit patients' facial features with hand tools and related equipment as required.
  • Repairs and adjusts lens frames as requested by patients using standard hand tools and related equipment.
  • Orders or fabricates lost pairs of eyeglasses, including using an automatic lens edging unit, hand edger, lens layout maker, and lens tinting unit.
  • Performs other duties as required, such as ordering optical supplies, assisting with periodic inventories, and responding to complaints regarding lens and frame fit.

Equipment Utilized:

Lens analyzer, lensometer, distometer, pupilometer, hand edger, automatic edger, pattern maker, layout marker, optical hand tools used to adjust metal and plastic frames.

The Optical Dispenser upholds Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal, and local laws.


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