Ophthalmic Technician I- UPMC Vision Institute-Oakland

University of Pittsburgh Physicians is hiring a full-time Ophthalmic Technician to support UPMC Vision Institute-Oakland located at 203 Lothrop Street 6th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15213. This role will work Monday through Friday daylight hours as per clinical need between the hours of 7a-5p (no weekends or holidays). This role will require travel to satellite locations (Shadyside, Forbes, Monroeville, St. Margaret’s, Mercy, Wexford, Bethel Park, Natrona Heights) as needed for coverage (25% of the time)

There are opportunities for growth and advancement within this position on the Ophthalmic Technician career ladder.

Responsibilities:

• Refractometry: auto-refractor, transposing scripts from to -
• Contact lenses: insertion, removal and instructions
• Pupillary assessment: measurement, compare and evaluate.
• 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 of instruments and cleaning patient exam rooms at end of 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
• Assisting with in-baskets, patient messages, voicemails, scrubbing schedules in preparation of upcoming appointments, etc., and other administrative duties as assigned under the direction of the Lead Coordinator/Practice Manager
• When needed, candidate will perform imaging requested by physicians (HVF, OCT, Fundus Photos, Slit Lamp Photos, A-scans (automatic and manual), Pentacam).