| Job
Code: |
1784 |
| Job
Title: |
Optician |
| Creation
Date: |
05/01/95 |
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| Revision
Date: |
08/08/02 |
| FLSA
Status: |
Non-Exempt |
Job Summary:
Manages the optical shop
of the Department of Ophthalmology, to include inventory, sales, ordering
glasses, frames and other optical supplies.
Major Duties / Critical Tasks:
- Maintains inventory of
levels of glasses and frames; orders glasses, frames and supplies; assists
with pricing and sales promotion.
- Designs and adapts
lenses and frames in accordance with written prescriptions and the patients'
vocational and avocational visual requirements.
- Recommends lenses for
safety and color, coordinating them with the patients' facial and eye
measurements.
- Prepares work order for
grinding lenses and fabricating spectacles.
- Verifies exactness of
finished spectacles. Adjusts frames and lens positions to fit patients by
heating, shaping or bending frames. Instructs patients as to the correct
wearing and care of glasses.
- Orders contact lenses
and instructs new contact lens wearers in the insertion, removal and care of
the lenses.
- Maintains patients'
optical records as well as inventory and bookkeeping records. Prepares
monthly reports as requested.
- Adheres to internal
controls established for department.
- Performs related duties
as required.
Required Education / Experience:
High school or equivalent
and two years of experience as an optician.
Equipment:
Standard Optical Shop equipment.
Working Environment:
Standard office and patient care environment.
Other:
Serious consequences or losses may result from poor judgment in terms of
adverse patient relations or loss of time, materials and income.
Specific job requirements or physical location of some positions allocated to
this classification, may render this position security sensitive, and thereby
subject to the provisions of Section 51.215, Texas Education Code.
Any
qualifications to be considered as equivalents in lieu of stated minimums
require the prior approval of the Chief Human Resources Officer.
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