Ophthalmic Health Technician – Flexible Scheduling

Veterans in Healthcare; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Veterans Affairs in the United States is seeking a Health Technician (Optometry) to support the Surgical Service Line. You will assist vision care providers, perform routine clinical tasks, and help ensure high-quality patient care for Veterans.

Key duties include taking patient history, verifying prescription data, measuring acuity, and operating auto-refractors and other ophthalmic instruments in a busy eye clinic.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of eye anatomy and visual optics.
• Ability to take patient history for review by doctor.
• Skill in operating ophthalmic diagnostic instruments.

Responsibilities

• Assist vision care providers in patient care and exam setup.
• Take patient history and verify spectacle prescription data.
• Measure visual acuity and use auto-refractor to determine prescriptions.

Tools

Ophthalmic instruments

OCT

IOLMaster

Ocular photography

Corneal topography

Job description

The Department of Veterans Affairs in the United States is seeking a Health Technician (Optometry) to support the Surgical Service Line. You will assist vision care providers, perform routine clinical tasks, and help ensure high-quality patient care for Veterans.

Key duties include taking patient history, verifying prescription data, measuring acuity, and operating auto-refractors and other ophthalmic instruments in a busy eye clinic.