What are the responsibilities and job description for the Ocularist - Craniofacial Center position at uic?
About UI Health
The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (UI Health)
provides comprehensive care, education, and research to the people of Illinois
and beyond. A part of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), UI Health
comprises a clinical enterprise that includes a 495-bed tertiary care hospital,
22 outpatient clinics, and 13 Mile Square Health Center facilities, which are
Federally Qualified Health Centers. It also includes the seven UIC health
science colleges: the College of Applied Health Sciences; the College of
Dentistry; the School of Public Health; the Jane Addams College of Social Work;
and the Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Nursing, including regional campuses
in Peoria, Quad Cities, Rockford, Springfield, and Urbana. UI Health is
dedicated to the pursuit of health equity.
Position Summary
The Ocularist is responsible for fitting, fabricating, inserting, and maintaining custom ocular prosthetics for patients and providing custom prosthetic eye care.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Fabricate and fit ocular prostheses for individuals who have lost an eye or eyes due to trauma or illness.
- Take impression of the eye socket, shape plastic shell, paint iris and fit ocular prostheses.
- Insert and maintain ocular prosthetics
- Teach the patient on the proper care, cleaning, removal and insertion of prostheses
- Record patient charts and appointments
- Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.
- Work in cooperation with anaplastologist to fabricate ocular prosthesis for an orbital prosthesis.
- Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.
