Ophthalmic Technician

This position is eligible for Mid Atlantic Retina's $1,000 Hiring Incentive! The hired candidate will receive $500 after successful completion of 90 days of employment and $500 after successful completion of 6 months of employment! Available to new hires only- not available to agency hires, internal transfers, or re-hires.

Job Type: Full Time

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED
• 1 year health care experience or equivalent medical training desired (but not required)
• Desire to work with patients

Job Description

Mid Atlantic Retina is one of the largest retina practices in the area, offering bonuses and growth opportunities for employees to not just work a job, but build a career. As an ophthalmic technician, you will take patient histories in the EMR system, do vision exams, prep patients for injections, administer drops, perform a variety of imaging tests, complete charting, scribing and other tasks.

Benefits

• 401(k) & Profit Sharing
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Paid Time Off
• Bonuses

Essential Functions

• Prepare patients and instrumentations appropriate to exams.
• Room patient timely and accurately.
• Collect patient medical history including chief complaint.
• Update medications, allergies and health maintenance system at time patient is
  roomed.
• Screen patients and perform accurate and consistent documentation and measurement
  tasks in relation to visual acuity, confrontational visual fields, evaluation of motility, pupillary
  function tests, color plates, checking eye pressures, dilation of pupils, ophthalmic
  imaging including fluorescein angiography, etc.
• Perform a variety of imaging tests in order to aid the physicians in documenting,
  tracking and treating all forms of eye disease.
• Assess and monitor patients' well-being before, during and immediately after IV
  injections related to fluorescein and ICG angiography.
• Scribe for physicians.
• Assist provider with laser and injection procedures.
• Clarify pre-op and post-op instructions with patients.
• Work overtime as needed.
• Travel as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Physical & Cognitive Demands

1. The employee is regularly required to talk, communicate verbally in front of groups, one to one and over the telephone and in email.
2. This position is very active and requires standing and walking all day in order to get patients and bring them to rooms, assist physicians and rotate assignments with other staff.
3. Lift or move objects weighing over 20 pounds.
4. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Working environment in exam rooms is often in moderate light.
5. Using hands to operate equipment, show manual or finger dexterity, handle things with precision or speed, use muscular coordination and physical stamina. Ability to raise dominant arm above shoulder height to administer drops.
6. Use senses to observe and examine patients, paying attention to detail.
7. Works with data and numbers, calculating and manipulating numbers, processing data on a computer, attending to details, classifying and recording, storing and retrieving information.
8. Using words to communicate ideas, reading with comprehension, writing reports or other documentation, teaching or training patients.
9. Sustain physical contact with another person in order to guide them due to diminished vision.