Optometrist- On-Call
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USD 54 - 66
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Job Description
Salud Para La Gente (SALUD) provides high quality comprehensive and costeffective healthcare to underserved lowincome communities in Santa Cruz County and North Monterey County. We began in Watsonville in 1978 as a storefront free clinic and in 1992 we became a federally qualified community health center (FQHC). Today we have grown to a primary health care network with 11 clinic sites over 400 employees and continue to provide high quality services to patients of all ages.
We are seeking an Optometrist to join our Optometry Department and to provide direct primary eye care and guidance to our patients.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- To serve as an advocate for patients and their families during their entry into Salud health care system.
- Perform assessments general and ocular history and eye examination on new and returning patients.
- Assess visual status ocular motor status ocular pathological conditions ocular development status and optometric needs of patients through appropriate ophthalmic examination methods.
- Develop the optometric treatment plan with the patients for visual problems and abnormalities to be implemented.
- Communicate when necessary with patients and or patients family by phone or letter.
- Provide guidance to patients and or their families relevant to ocular health education.
- Provide sympathetic care communicate effectively and respectfully with people from different racial ethnic and cultural backgrounds and lifestyles
- Provide consultation for the professional staff.
- Provide technical supervision to paraoptometric staff
- Efficiently use the EHR system and complete chart writeups and review laboratory works in a timely manner.
- Participate in Saluds Continuous Quality Improvement program.
- Comply with the referral/utilization procedures and standards.
- Comply with all regulations pertaining to the practice of optometry and licensure in the State of California.
- Comply with the principal of practice.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Doctorate Degree from a school of Optometry approved by California.
- Possess and maintain a current California License to practice optometry.
- Must have and maintain a certificate in Ocular Pharmacology issued by the State Board of Optometry.
- Must maintain an average of sixty postgraduate hours in OptometricMedical Education in the last three years.
- Bilingual Spanish and English highly preferred.
- Valid CA drivers license
- Current valid CPR certification.
SALARY & BENEFITS:
Salary: $57.73 $70.17/hr
Benefit: CA Sick Pay prorated per hours worked
Salud is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex disability age sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran status or genetic information. Salud is committed to providing access equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment its services programs and activities. To request reasonable accommodation contact the Salud Human Resources Departmentand
Employment Type
Part-Time
