Ophthalmic Technician (Mercy)

UPMC Comprehensive Eye Service is hiring a full-time Ophthalmic Technician to join their team at Mercy. This is a Monday through Friday daylight position with hours between 7:30am to 5:30pm, dependent on clinic schedules. No evenings, weekends, and select holidays off!

If you have a passion for patient care and work well on a team, this opportunity is for you. This department provides different opportunities with v arious types of exams, such as simple follow ups from the walk-in clinic, diabetic eye exams, comprehensive eye exams, and cataract evaluations.

Purpose:
Obtain detailed information from patients and perform a variety of diagnostic tests to the eyes to aid in the diagnosis and treatment course.

Responsibilities:

• History taking to include ocular, medical, medication, social and family. Visual acuity assessment: with and without correction, distance, near and intermediate, pinhole, best corrected, potential acuity/BAT. Lensometry: automated and manual. Pupillary assessment: measurement, compare, and evaluate. Visual fields: Amsler grid & confrontation fields. Ocular Motility: Knowledge of the functions & anomalies, cover tests, stereo-acuity, nystagmus. Refractometry: auto-refractor, manifest refractions, transposing scripts from + to –
• Tonometry: ICare, Tonopen, applanation, with the care and proper disinfection of each. Supplemental skills: Color testing, glare test. Angle assessment & dilation of pupils. Contact lenses: insertion, removal, and instructions good but not mandatory.
• Assist with maintaining office inventory, notifying appropriate staff when supplies are needed, restocking exam rooms, cleaning and sterilizing of instruments. Cleaning patient exam rooms at end of day and between patients. Consenting patient for laser and/or medical procedures and setting up the room for those procedures. Travel to other clinical sites