Job Details
Level
Experienced
Job Location
Astoria – ASTORIA, NY
Position Type
Full Time (30+ hrs/wk)
Education Level
High School Diploma/Equivalency
Salary Range
$54,000.00 – $90,000.00 Salary/year
Job Shift
Day
Job Category
Healthcare (Ophthalmology)
Description
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Directly supervises staff in the Technical Department. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.
Responsibilities include input into hiring, disciplining, and terminating employees; planning, assigning, scheduling and directing work; input into appraising performance; developing and implementing training programs and staff resource materials; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
It is required to publish the office schedule, have at least quarterly meetings with staff and more frequent informal/shorter meetings that occur at least weekly; and meet at least once a month with full-time doctors in their office and once a quarter with part-time doctors.
A brief summary is to be documented and circulated to attendees and the COO. Additionally, Tech Supervisors must schedule themselves with active time on the floor to support patient care and clinic flow.
Qualifications
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Analyzes and organizes clinical operations and procedures to ensure peak patient flow, triages emergency cases appropriately into physicians schedule, maintains patient flow.
- Maximizes productivity through scheduling of staff, training and proficient use of appropriate technology.
- Monitors staffing needs, including approval of PTO and coordination of coverage, to ensure adequate staff to meet the needs of the practice.
- Responsible for in-service and training of staff, review staff knowledge of technical responsibilities and makes appropriate recommendations to administration.
- Responsible for the requisition of supplies, maintaining stock in exam and procedure rooms; and the timely maintenance of clinical equipment to minimize down time; performs first level maintenance on ophthalmic equipment, communicates need for repairs or replacement to office manager and administration.
- Performs and records initial history; including present/chief complaint, past ocular history, family history, systemic illness, medications, allergies and drug reactions, tests and records patient’s far acuity, near acuity, peripheral vision, depth perception, and color perception.
- Performs ancillary test such as lensometry, corneal topography, A scans, B scans, keratometry, tonometry, fundus photography, manifest refractions, fluorescein angiography, slit lamp photography, specular misoscopy, and visual fields, (including central and peripheral vision); records results.
- Knowledgeable in ocular pharmacology such as anesthetics, steroids, antibiotics, mydriatics and cycloplegics, epinephrine, miotics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories.
- Assists ophthalmologist in all areas of patient exams and in office procedures.
- Maintains confidentiality and professional demeanor at all times.