Office Assistant

Family-run practice looking for an office assistant to streamline patient experience and maintain our positive and welcoming reputation. Our office assistant will help in the clinic and optical to aid with patient flow. Friendly attitude and fit with office culture are essential to this role.

Essential Functions

· Begin patient workups and welcome them to the office

· Special testing including fundus photography, visual fields, and optical coherence tomography.

· Maintain optical laboratory.

· Verify eyeglass lens powers by lensometry.

· Contact patients to update them on ordered eyewear.

· Data entry including patient medical / ocular data and ensuring confidentiality of all records.

· Calibrate, clean, and maintain ophthalmic equipment and instruments.

· Assure reception and office area is clean, neat, and organized.

· Maintain restrooms and help to maintain breakroom.

Secondary Functions

· Calibrate, clean, and maintain ophthalmic equipment and instruments.

· Work with patient on appropriate contact lens insertion and removal techniques.

· Perform additional diagnostic testing such as fields, corneal topography, OCT, or retinal photographs.

· Verify insurance information and maintain patient records.

· Assist and educate patients with the selection of eyeglasses and frames, lenses and lens enhancements.

· Minor Repairs and adjustments of eyeglasses.

· Update contact information at each visit.

· Administrative duties for this position include faxing, copying, making phone calls, preparing patients' medical records, scanning, and entering extensive data in the office's computer system.

· Dispensing glasses.

Benefits and Compensation

· $15.00 - $20.00 / Hour depending on optometric experience.

· Paid Time Off.

· Paid Holidays.

· Employee Discounts on glasses and immediate family exams.

· Family friendly scheduling. M, Tu, W: 9-6 ; Th: 2-7; F: 9-2. No weekends!

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $15.00 - $20.00 per hour

Expected hours: 35 per week

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• No nights

Work Location: In person