Optometrist

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. If you’re motivated by service, inspired by teamwork, and excited to practice optometry in a meaningful, community‑focused setting, Vision To Learn offers a rewarding way to use your skills to change lives.

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; we work 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. Join us and make a direct impact in your community by helping provide vision services to school‑aged children in underserved communities who would otherwise go without access to care.

We are friendly, high energy, knowledgeable, and detail‑oriented professionals committed to Vision To Learn’s mission. We approach our work with a value system of service excellence, empathy, integrity, open communication, empowerment, and an eagerness to help the communities we serve.

Vision To Learn is seeking a qualified candidate for an optometrist licensed to practice in Oregon. This position would be up to 5 days/week.

Responsibilities

• Provide vision evaluations: check VA’s, assess binocular vision, IOP, 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

• Oregon Optometry License
• Must be flexible to commute throughout a 1‑hour drive of the Bend/Eugene area (mobile clinic)
• Must pass Department of Justice background check (LiveScan) and drug test