Optical Dispenser
Primary Location La Mesa, California
Facility La Mesa Medical Offices
Job Number 1243551 Date posted 01/09/2024
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Description:
Under limited supervision, measures pupil distance and bridgewidth, adjusts eyeglass frames and assist patients in selecting optical items to conform with corresponding optical prescriptions and established procedures.
Job Summary:
Under limited supervision, measures pupil distance and bridgewidth, adjusts eyeglass frames and assist patients in selecting optical items to conform with corresponding optical prescriptions and established procedures.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Assists patient with optical selections.
- Recommends and displays various designs, colors, and shapes of eyeglass frames available and compatible to patients prescription and facial features.
- Quotes prices from fee schedules.
- Neutralizes spectacles with lensometer and performs measurements with pupilometer, distometer, and other progressive optical measuring devices.
- Records frame, lens specification and other related items such as non-prescribed dark glasses and cleaning fluids.
- Examines glasses received from laboratory to insure conformority with prescription.
- Verifies prescription with lensometer.
- Modifies lenses to fit frames and adjusts frames to fit patients facial features with hand tools and related equipment as required.
- Repairs and adjusts lens frames as requested by patients using standard hand tools and related equipment.
- Orders or fabricates lost pair of eyeglasses to include using automatic lens edging unit, hand edger, lens layout maker, and lens tinting unit.
- Performs other duties as required such as ordering optical supplies, assisting with periodic inventories, responding to complaints regarding lens and frame fit. Equipment Utilized: Lens analyzer, lensometer, distometer, pupilometer, hand edger, automatic edger, pattern maker, layout marker, optical hand tools used to adjust metal and plastic frames.
- Assume other activities and responsibilities from time to time as directed.
- Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities and applicable state, federal and local laws.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
- American Board of Opticianry (ABO) Certification plus (1) year recent experience or two (2) years equivalent experience under direction of a Licensed Optician, Optometrist, or Ophthalmologist performing Optometry Dispenser work required.
Education
- N/A
License, Certification, Registration
- N/A
Additional Requirements:
- Ability to use Humphrey Lens Analizer, conventional lensometer, pupilometer, distometer, progressive lens measuring devices, hand edger, salt-pan, lens tinting, unit, automatic pattern maker unit, automatic lens edging unit and lens layout procedures.
- Ability to work effectively with the public.
- Ability to follow oral and/or written instructions.
- Ability to correctly measure for, prepare order and fit ophthalmic eyeglass lenses of all types including cataract and progressive power lenses.
- Ability to adjust and correctly fit metal and plastic eyewear frames.
Preferred Qualifications:
- N/A
Notes:
- Float position with varied scheduled hours required to travel to all locations and scheduled to work every Saturday.
- Scheduled work hours per week will be 20-32.
Primary Location: California,La Mesa,La Mesa Medical Offices
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 21
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
Working Hours Start: 07:00 AM
Working Hours End: 09:00 PM
Job Schedule: Part-time
Job Type: Standard
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: B09|OPEIU|Local 30
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Department: La Mesa MOB - Optical Dispensing-Reg Clinic - 0806
Pay Range: $29.03 - $32.71 / hour
The ranges posted above reflect the location in the job posting. The salary range may vary if you reside in a different location or state than the location posted.
Travel: Yes, 100 % of the Time
At Kaiser Permanente, equity, inclusion and diversity are inextricably linked to our mission, and we aim to make it a part of everything we do. We know that having a diverse and inclusive workforce makes Kaiser Permanente a better place to receive health care, a more supportive partner in our communities we serve, and a more fulfilling place to work. Working at Kaiser Permanente means that you agree to and abide by our commitment to equity and our expectation that we all work together to create an inclusive work environment focused on a sense of belonging and wellbeing.
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status. Submit Interest
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status. Submit Interest
