Certified or Non-Certified Optician - Galena Clinic - No Experience Required!

Job Overview

Description

Medical Associates Galena Clinic is looking for a Full-Time Non-Certified or Certified Optician to join our team! No previous experience required - on-the-job training provided!

This role is responsible for greeting customers, providing information, communicating with departments, and scheduling appointments. The ideal candidate will be flexible, willing to learn, and will jump in where needed!

Schedule: Monday through Friday, covering hours between 7:30am and 6:00pm, working 80 hours per pay period. Full-Benefits Eligible!

Location: Medical Associates Galena Clinic (10988 Bartell Blvd, Galena, IL 61036). This role may be asked to provide occasional coverage at other locations.

Benefits Package is Worth Over $20,000 and includes:

• Single or Family Health Insurance with discounted premium rates for wellness program participation.
• 401k with immediate matching (50% on the dollar up to 7% of pay + additional annual Profit Sharing)
• Flexible Paid Time Off Program (24 days off/year)
• Medical and Dependent Care Flex Spending Accounts
• Life insurance, Long Term Disability Coverage, Short Term Disability Coverage, Dental Insurance, etc.

What You’ll be Doing:

• Schedule and coordinate multiple appointments. General knowledge of basic insurance coverage and financial classes.
• Influence patients with the selecting eyewear to encourage sales. Adjust eye wear to patient and make any necessary repairs using appropriate tools. Instruct patient on cleaning and handling.
• Interpret prescription and help patients choose appropriate eyewear, consulting with prescribing physicians as appropriate.
• Supplement office staff as reception tasks permit by assisting with photocopying, computer input/typing, and enter payments/charges into computer opticianry.
• Complete all other assigned projects and duties.
• Greet customers in person and via telephone in polite, prompt, helpful manner. Provide any necessary instructions/directions and inform appropriate department/person of persons arrival.
• Maintain clean, orderly waiting area including beverage area and reading materials.
• Update patient information, collect copays, provide any necessary forms needing completion, and obtain signatures as necessary.
• Complete necessary paperwork such as encounter forms and parking validations. Use computer system to generate information necessary for billing.

Knowledge and Skills:

Experience: One to three years of similar or related experience.

Education: Equivalent to a high school education. 

Interpersonal Skills: Courtesy, tact, and diplomacy are essential elements of the job. Work involves personal contact with others inside and/or outside the organization, generally regarding routine matters for purposes of giving or obtaining information which may require some discussion.

Other Skills: Must have current certification by American Board of Opticianry or be willing to obtain certification.

Medical Associates keeps a close eye on the COVID-19 pandemic and all related national, state, and local guidance related to vaccination, masking, and the mitigation of disease spread.

Physical Aspects:

Reaching - Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Lifting - Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.

Fingering - Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.

Grasping - Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Feeling - Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

Talking - Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly or quickly.
Hearing - Perceiving the nature of sound with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machined parts.

Vision - 20 / 40 or better in the best eye with or without correction.

Repetitive Motions - Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands and/or fingers.
Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

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