What are the responsibilities and job description for the Ophthalmic Technician II Certified position at Kaiser Permanente?
Job Summary:
The Ophthalmic Technician/photographer is a member of the health care team who, working under the supervision of the department manager, assumes responsibility and accountability for performing Ophthalmic technician, photography and other technical tests on patients as requested. The Ophthalmic Technician provides safe and knowledgeable patient care.
Essential Functions:
Essential Functions:
- Provide direct and indirect patient care associated with physician office visits.
- Perform biometrics, visual field examinations, B scan ultrasound evaluations, tonometry, and keratometry consistent with Certification by Joint Commission on Allied Health personnel in Ophthalmology.
- Perform ophthalmic photography (fluorescien angiography, external photos, stereo photos and anterior segment photos), consistent with Certification by Ophthalmic Photographer's Society.
- Review, identify, label and file completed photographs, negatives and slides.
- Identify, read and interpret stereoscopic slides, according to department policy.
- Set up and maintain cameras, and associated ophthalmic equipment and instruments in proper working order on a daily basis.
- Develop ophthalmic film.
- Store equipment in its appropriate place at the end of the working day.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
Grade 660
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
Experience
- Minimum three (3) years work experience (working twenty (20) or more hours per week) as an Ophthalmic Technician within the last five (5) years and be fully proficient in and perform Goldman Visual Fields, Biometrics, Fluorescein Angiography and Retinal Photography a great majority of the time.
- Minimum one (1) year of job experience with cameras and darkroom technique within the past two (2) years, preferred.
Education
- High School Diploma/GED.
License, Certificate, Registration
- Ophthalmic Technician Certification by Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology.
- Certified in Retinal Angiography by the Ophthalmic Photographer's Society, preferred.
Additional Requirements:
- Knowledge of ocular anatomy, physiology, pathology, and terminology.
- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.
- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.
Preferred Qualifications:
- N/A
Salary : $45 - $50