Ophthalmic Technician I

At Gateway Ophthalmology, our mission is to provide personalized attention, excellent service, and unparalleled comprehensive eye care to our patients and community. We will continue to achieve this goal with three core values. First, our doctors and staff will use innovative technological advancements in treatment, diagnostics, and prevention of eye diseases. Next, we will provide superior education to our patients, doctors, staff, and community. Finally, we recognize every patient's importance and will strive to meet their needs in any way possible. With offices located in Jamestown, NY and Bradford, PA we provide services for Cataract, Glaucoma, Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Eye Disease, Dry Eye Disease, Laser Vision Correction and Contact Lens and Glasses prescriptions for all ages.

We invite you to join our team!

We are now hiring for an Ophthalmic technician that will support a high-volume ophthalmic practice that focuses on providing quality and compassionate care to each patient needing complete eye care services.

This position requires customer service skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and a degree of independent decision-making.

Ophthalmic skills include:

• →Obtaining and documenting patient history
• →Determining visual acuity
• →Performing automated refraction
• →Administering eye drops, ointments, and irrigating solutions to the eye as ordered by physician
• →Performing office duties and clinical tasks - entering data into EMR
• →Providing patient services
• →Maintaining equipment and instruments

• Dependable transportation required to travel to other offices as required

• Must be flexible with traveling to various locations.

• Ability to pay attention to detail

• Ability to maintain confidentiality

• The ability to seek instruction in areas where he/she is not knowledgeable

• The ability to recognize inconsistencies

Education:

• Graduation from an accredited high school