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Health Technician - Optometry
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
On-site Salt Lake City, UT $36K – $66K Apply by Jun 15, 2026 Health Aid And Technician ESFJISFJISFPISTJ HealthcareTrades
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An Optometry Technician is an allied health care practitioner whose role is to assist vision care providers in providing the highest possible level of services to patients. This person will be under the clinical oversight of the Staff Optometrist/Ophthalmologist and will function under the direct supervision of the Specialty Clinics Nurse Manager through the ADPCS of Nursing Service.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Assist in taking patient history for review by doctor to include chief complaint, history of present condition, pertinent medical, ocular, and family history and other information as determined to be important.
- →Verify spectacle prescription data including sphere, cylinder, prism, interpupillary Distance, using a lensmeter.
- →Measure visual acuity, distance and near, corrected, and uncorrected.
- →Measure corneal curvature using a keratometer.
- →Assess color vision using psuedoisochromatic plates if directed.
- →Instills drops as directed.
- →Performs intra-ocular pressure screenings.
- →Performs visual field evaluations using automated & manual visual field analyzers independently.
- →Assist in selecting and fitting of eyeglass frames and lenses to include appropriate measurements required to order.
- →Adjusting spectacles for proper fit.
- →Minor repair of spectacles and determining when spectacles are not repairable.
- →Perform fundus photography on patients and perform ophthalmology MIC imaging procedures on patients as directed (by OD or OMD) to include film photography, digital photography, ocular coherence tomography, imaging modalities, and pachyometry.
- →Assist in screening phone calls, walk-in patients, and patient inquiries.
- →Assist in vision clinic coordination and scheduling.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 5021239f-6b0e-440f-bf4a-ddf73cc8074c
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