Optician - Ophthalmology Consultants
Optician - Ophthalmology Consultants
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Job Description
EyeCare Partners is the nations leading provider of clinically integrated eye care. Our national network of over 300 ophthalmologists and 700 optometrists provides a lifetime of care to our patients with a mission to enhance vision advance eye care and improve lives. Based in St. Louis Missouri over 650 ECPaffiliated practice locations provide care in 18 states and 80 markets providing services that span the eye care continuum. For more information visitwww.eyecarepartners.
Job Title:Optician
Company:Ophthalmology Consultants
Location: Creve Coeur MO
Perks:
- Full Benefits Package including Medical Vision Dental and Life Insurance
- 401k Employer Matching
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays
- Paid Maternity Leave
- Competitive Base Pay
- Optical Certification Reimbursement
- Employee Discounts
Hours:
- Full Time
- Our offices are open MondayFriday 8am5pm
- You may have to work a little earlier and/or later as needed
- You may have to work a little earlier and/or later as needed
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or GED equivalent
- Favorable result on Background Check
- Basic computer skills
- Strong customer service skills
- Excitement to learn and grow
Essential Functions:
- Promote frames and lenses recommended by the doctor to meet patient needs
- Adjust and repair glasses
- Facilitate patient flow
- Verify medical and vision insurances
- Effectively communicate with patients doctors and managers
- Answer inquiries through phone email and in person requests
AnOptician will achieve a world class Total Patient Experience that both maximizes the retail sales but also supports the patients medical needs. This employee is trained to dispense and fit glasses and contacts working from the prescriptions written by Optometrists and Ophthalmologists. They connect the patient needs to the good and services we offer.
Responsibilities:
60
- Embrace and execute our Total Patient Experience to build relationships with all patients while delivering great medical support
- Determine patient wants and needs and selling to exceed their expectations
- Assist patients in selecting frames according to style and color coordinating frames with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions
- Able to operate the autolensometer and manual lensometer
- Educate and recommend specific lenses lens coatings and frames to suit patient needs
- Can accurately collect measurements such as bridge eye size temple length seg heights vertex distance pupillary distance and pantoscopic tilt
- Dispense patient orders and repair and adjust patient frames
- Dispense all glasses and/or contact lens orders in E360
20
- Assist with other duties in the office as needed
- General office duties and cleaning to be assigned by manager
- Ensure all job aids and policies are followed
20
- Acknowledge patients in a friendly approachable way that invites them into the office
- Maintain frame standards with cleaning organization full and wellpresented areas
- Follow all protocols to keep Frame inventory accurate
Requirements:
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required
- Associates Degree preferred
- Minimum of 1 year in a customer interactive position; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Basic computer skills
- Communication interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Ability to read analyze and interpret insurance forms
- Favorable result on background check required
- Must be able to provide proof of identity and right to work in the United States
Preferred Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Have ABOC or obtained with first 2 years of employment (preferred not required)
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization
- HIPPA: All Associates must comply with the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) as it pertains to disclosures of protected health information (PHI) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and HIPPA Privacy Policies and Procedures
Physical Requirements:
- Regular bending lifting carrying reaching and stretching
- Ability to move throughout the office
- Ability to remain standing for long periods of time
- Lifting heavy boxes and accessing high shelves
- If you need help performing these functions of your job please contact supervisor so that we may engage in the interactive process with you and find a reasonable accommodation
Work Environment:
- Calculate manipulate and interpret numbers/data
- Problem solve reason and resolve issues effectively
- Use independent judgment and discretion
- Meet customer expectations
- Work under stress with interruptions and deadlines
- Use computer effectively and view computer screen
- Exhibit empathy in all situations
- Work changing schedules to meet business demands
If you need assistance with this application please contact. Please do not contact the office directly only resumes submitted through this website will be considered.
EyeCare Partners is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All applicants will be considered foremploymentwithout attention to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin and veteran or disability status.
Required Experience:
Contract
Employment Type
Full Time
