Optometrist

About Vision To Learn

Vision To Learn is the largest school-based vision care nonprofit in the country. VTL exists to address one basic premise – if you can’t see, you can’t learn. Vision To Learn provides eye exams and glasses to students in underserved communities at no cost to the students and their families to help them succeed in school and in life. Founded in Los Angeles in 2012, Vision To Learn has since expanded to schools across the country. Vision care is critical as 80% of all learning during a child’s first 12 years is visual; VTL works to solve the problem of lack of access by partnering with school districts to provide eye exams and glasses at no charge to families. We have provided over 3.8 million vision screenings, 800,000 eye exams and 650,000 new, prescription glasses in the last decade.

About the role

Vision To Learn seeks compassionate, mission-driven optometrists who want to make a tangible impact on children’s lives. As part of a mobile clinical team, you’ll provide high-quality eye exams and help deliver glasses to students in underserved communities—removing vision barriers that affect learning and long-term opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Provide vision evaluations: check visual acuities, assess binocular vision, intraocular pressure, pupils, perform a full refraction and prescribe appropriate correction, and assess ocular health
• Prescribe vision devices, test patient on all applicable equipment to determine the most suitable for his/her condition, and instruct patient in the proper use of it
• Confirm that patient diagnosis is properly documented in the internal systems

Requirements

• North Carolina Optometry License
• Flexible to commute throughout Durham, Orange and Wake counties
• Experience using EHR systems; Microsoft Office experience is preferred
• Must pass Department of Justice background check (LiveScan) and drug test

Compensation

$135/hr

Schedule

Flexible schedule; no federal holidays, no nights, and no weekends (other than very select voluntary exceptions).

Benefits

• Mileage reimbursement

Clearance Requirements

Employees will be asked to pass a Department of Justice background check/fingerprinting (LiveScan), child abuse history clearance, TB, and drug test.