Position/Title: Optometrist

Reporting/Department Head: Chief Medical Officer

• FLSA Status – Not Exempt
• EEO Category – Professional

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Our Mission:To improve lives by providing convenient, comprehensive, high-quality healthcare to every person in every community that we serve.

Our Vision: CCHN will maintain its position as the leading community health center in the state and become a model for all other healthcare organizations to follow.

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MAJOR FUNCTION:

Responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive eye and vision tests
• Diagnose defects of the eye, such as myopia, astigmatism and glaucoma
• Provide personalized temporary and permanent solutions to sight issues based on each patient’s specific case and medical history
• Prescribe medications, and eyeglasses
• Advise patients on proper eye care techniques
• Keep updated and accurate medical records for all patients
• Book next appointments in cases where re-examination is required
• Refer eye doctors and ophthalmologists when patients need to undergo a surgery or in cases of severe eye injuries

Requirements and skills

• Work experience as an Optometrist
• In-depth understanding of eye conditions and vision defects
• Hands-on experience with eye examination tools, such as ophthalmoscope and tonometer
• The ability to explain medical terms simply and calmly
• Attention to detail
• Degree in Optometry

Provides referral and case management.

• Refers patients to internal resources according to program standards, protocol, or physician consultation
• Refers patients for specialty care as per program standards, protocol, or physician consultation
• Refers patients to primary care as appropriate
• Follows up on referrals according to site specific standards
• Case manages client care according to program standards and patients plan of care

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Unrestricted license to practice as an Optometrist from the NJ Division of Consumer Affairs
• Employee shall maintain registration including prescriptive authority
• Maintain Board Certification, as applicable
• Maintain Active CPR approved by American Heart Association
• Ability to stand, swift waling, lifting, moving patients as needed.

The above job description is not to be construed as a complete listing of the assignments that may be given to any employee, nor are such assignments restricted to those precisely listed in the description.

EOE