What are the responsibilities and job description for the Ophthalmic Technician I- UPMC Vision Institute position at UPMC?
University of Pittsburgh Physicians is hiring a full-time Ophthalmic Technician to support the Vision Institute located at 1622 Locust Street
Ready to join the team? We invite you to apply today!
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
Salary : $21 - $34
