Travel Ophthalmic Technician
Brooklyn, New York
Mount Sinai Doctors-Brooklyn Heights

Job Opportunity: Offsite Ophthalmic Technician

Location

• Brooklyn, New York

Employment Type

• Contract

Contract Length

• 13 weeks

Job Summary

• Perform preliminary screening examinations for physician review, including:

  • Central and peripheral visual field tests
  • Ocular motility tests
  • Color vision tests
  • Pharmacological pupil tests
  • Tonometry, tonography, and tensilon tonography tests to determine intraocular pressure
  • Pupil testing for size, equality, and reaction prior to dilation

Key Responsibilities

• Direct patient flow for Eye Center physician examinations
• Obtain medical and personal data for patient charts
• Screen patients for conditions excluding ocular examination
• Arrange laboratory tests, ophthalmic photography, outpatient studies, patient admissions, and surgery as requested
• Explain diagnostic procedures and treatment methods to patients and families
• Calibrate and maintain ophthalmic instruments such as bio-microscopes, lensometer, keratometer, tangent screen, slit lamp, and tonometers
• Clean and stock consultation rooms and microbiology laboratory with drugs and supplies
• Sterilize and set up instruments for ophthalmic surgical procedures
• Assist with minor office surgery, laser treatments, and operating room surgery as required
• Perform other duties as assigned

Schedule

• Shift: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Hours per week: 40

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience as an Ophthalmic Technician, including experience within the last year
• High School diploma or GED, or appropriate Ophthalmic Technician certificate training, or appropriate Medical Assistant certificate training