Optician

About the role

Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you'll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact. Become part of our optical team and help patients see and feel their best.

Job Summary

Fills patient prescriptions for glasses and at some locations contact lenses.

Responsibilities

• Interprets and analyzes current prescription and reviews historical information to ensure changes are consistent and reasonable.
• Recognizes inconsistencies and irregularities in prescription history.
• Contacts doctor for discussion if there are questions.
• Troubleshoots basic and advanced vision complaints related to eyeglasses and at some locations contact lenses.
• Assists patients with selection of eyewear, determines proper frame and lens selections while also considering prescription implications.
• Effectively demonstrates features and benefits to reinforce value to the customer while maximizing sales.
• Takes necessary optical measurements (e.g. pupillary distance (PD), seg heights, custom fit to wear lens measurements) with a high degree of accuracy.
• Explains the procedures and reasons for them to customer.
• Accurately and comfortably fits eye wear to customer’s satisfaction.
• Demonstrates proper eyeglass cleaning and storage techniques and suggests products to assist them.
• Inspects all jobs that come in with a lensometer (manual or automatic) for prescription verification using department and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards as guidelines for quality control.
• Requests corrections as necessary from lab.
• Responsible for managing on site inventory within directed budgets, including frames, miscellaneous supplies and over the counter accessory items.
• Assists in dispensing contact lenses at some locations.
• Maintains a working knowledge of available insurance and safety plans.