Ophthalmic Assistant/Medical Assistant - Bellevue

Company: Kaiser
Location: Suquamish
Posted on: March 20, 2023

Job Description:

--Job Summary:Provide technical and patient care support either in a clinic or on the phone as a member of the Eye Care team. In clinic perform measurement and evaluation tests and perform specified procedures. On phone acts as a triage point for urgent, emergent and general Eye Care needs. May support fitting of contact lenses and provide patient instruction.Essential Responsibilities:

• Patient Assessment: --Anticipates and recognizes changes in the patients eye health status and needs for eye care.
• Clinic only - History taking: Presenting complaint/history of presenting illness, past ocular history, family history, systemic illness, past and present, medications, allergies and drug reactions.
• Phone only - Using the Eye Care triage process, provides telephone consultation to patients. Determines priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available resources.
• Clinical Exam (clinic only) --
• Basic Testing Skills: methods of measuring/recording acuity, color vision testing, lensometry, A-scan biometry, Exophthalmometry Amsler Grid, Schirmer, Tests Evaluation of Pupils, Estimation of Anterior chamber depth, Visual field evaluation.
• Perform Patient Services Procedures: Ocular dressings and shields, Drug delivery, spectacle principles, assisting patient, minor surgery assist and instruction. --
• Instrument Maintenance: Acuity projectors, ophthalmoscopes, retinoscopes, lensometers, perimeters, tangent screen, phoropters, slit lamps, ultrasound, keratometers, lenses, tonometers, muscle light, special instruments, surgical instruments.
• Appointing:
• Clinic - May check-in or make --follow up appointments.
• Phone - Provides appropriate schedule guidance through use of technical skill and judgement along with established protocols.
• Patient Care: --Encourages patient compliance with established therapeutic and medical treatment. --Promotes patient self-care responsibility for meeting their own eye health needs. --Adheres to Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington documentation standards. --Provides a safe environment for each patient and adheres to Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington safety standards. --
• Clinic - Basic principles, fitting procedures, patient instruction, trouble-shooting problems, verification of lenses, cash handling, retail opinions for contact lenses.Sign On Bonus: $3,000Basic Qualifications:Experience
  • N/AEducation
    • High School Diploma OR General Education Development (GED) required.License, Certification, Registration
      • Basic Life Support required at hire
        • Registered Medical Assistant (Washington) required at hire
          • Opthalmic Assistant Certificate required at hireAdditional Requirements:
            • Computer experience in a MS Windows environment; keyboarding skills.
            • Customer service skills.
            • General medical knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, anatomy, physiology, systemic diseases, ocular diseases, ocular emergencies and metric conversion fundamentals of microbial control.Preferred Qualifications:
              • Experience working with contact lens patients and products.
              • Experience working in an ophthalmology or optometry practice.
              • Graduate of an accredited medical assistant, ophthalmic assistant, or allied health professional program.Job Schedule: Job Category: Clinical Support, Medical Assistant

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