Ophthalmic Technician I- Pediatric, Monroeville

UPMC Optomology is hiring an Ophthalmic Technician at their new Monroeville office! This is a Monday-Friday, Daylight Position. No nights, weekends, or holidays! If you are looking for a position with a new office and lots of growth potential, this position is for you!!

Responsibilities:

• Refractometry: auto-refractor, transposing scripts from + to -

• Contact lenses: insertion, removal, and instructions

• Pupillary assessment: measurement, comparison, and evaluation.

• History taking to include ocular, medical, medication, social, and family.

• Lensometry: automated and manual

• Angle assessment & dilation of pupils

• Assist with maintaining office inventory, notifying appropriate staff when supplies are needed, restocking exam rooms, cleaning and sterilizing instruments, and cleaning patient exam rooms at the end of the day.

• Visual fields: Amsler grid & confrontation fields

• Supplemental skills: Color testing, glare test

• Ocular Motility: Knowledge of the functions & anomalies, cover tests, stereo-acuity, nystagmus

• Tonometry: Icare, Tonopen, and the care and proper disinfection of

• Visual acuity assessment: with and without correction, distance, near and intermediate, pinhole, best corrected, potential acuity, brightness acuity

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.

• Experience as an Ophthalmic Technician in an Ophthalmology office or a combination of related education and/or experience is preferred.

• Completion of AAO Home Study Course is preferred. Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances: Valid CPR certification

• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

• Act 31 Child Abuse Reporting with renewal

• Act 33 with renewal

• Act 34 with renewal

• Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

UPMC has a Center for Engagement and Inclusion that is charged with executing leading-edge and next-generation diversity strategies to advance the organization's diversity management capability and its national presence as a diversity leader. This includes having Employee Resource Groups, such as PRIDE Health or UPMC ENABLED (Empowering Abilities and Leveraging Differences) Network, which support the implementation of our diversity strategy.