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Position Title: :Lead Ophthalmic Assistant Employment Type: Full-Time, Non-Exempt Practice: Matossian Eye Associates, a PRISM Vision Group Partner Practice Location: Pennington, New Jersey
Travel: Not Required Compensation: $21.68 - $45.09 per hour, based on experience and qualifications
Position Summary
The Lead Ophthalmic Assistant is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient care. This role involves coordinating clinical activities, supervising staff, and serving as the primary liaison between the physician and the team. The Lead Ophthalmic Assistant plays a crucial role in maintaining efficient workflow and upholding clinical standards.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Lead and coordinate the activities of the team, ensuring that all tasks are completed efficiently and to a high standard. • Assist the physician in complex procedures and advanced diagnostic testing, taking on the most challenging cases. • Reviews patient charts to ensure completeness and accuracy of information. • Takes an ocular and systemic history and accurately records visual acuity. • Performs testing required by type of exam scheduled, patient complaint and history, including but not limited to OCT, automated visual fields, photography, pachymetry, biometry. • Performs lensometry, automated refractometry, slit lamp exam including applanation tonometry and anterior chamber angle assessment, basic muscle balance testing, assesses pupils, confrontation visual fields and gross external exam. • Serve as the primary point of contact for the team, addressing any issues or concerns that arise. • Acts as scribe while the physician examines patients, entering data into electronic medical records or handwritten in paper charts. • Administers topical ophthalmic or oral medications. • Ensures proper office procedures are adhered to and required informed consent is obtained. • Responsible for patient education. • Oversees patient flow throughout the day. • Maintains cleanliness and orderliness of exam rooms during the workday. • Collaborate with the clinic manager and physicians to identify areas for improvement and implement changes. • Complies with all practice procedures and protocols. Complies with all State and Federal regulations. Understands and accepts responsibility to report potential or suspected errors to supervisor or Compliance Officer. • Maintains a positive attitude consisting of cooperation, self-motivation, courtesy, and professionalism
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS Education: High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED) required. Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline is preferred or equivalent relevant experience in lieu of education. Experience: 8+ years of prior ophthalmic assistant experience, 2+ years of leading on the floor.
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES • Accountability – Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions and work performed. Willing to accept constructive feedback. • Accuracy – Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly with attention to all details of a project or task. • Adaptability – Ability to adapt to and facilitate change in the workplace. • Communication – Ability to communicate effectively with others using good listening skills. • Empathetic – Ability to appreciate and be sensitive to the feelings of patients and co-workers. • Initiative – Ability to make decisions and take actions to solve a problem or reach a goal. Desire to excel, attempting non-routine tasks. • Judgment – Ability to make sound decisions using available information. • Reliability – Can be relied upon to demonstrate reliability in attendance and punctuality. • Team Player – The ability to work with others and independently for a common goal. Puts aside own individual needs to work toward the larger group objective and reinforces the contribution of others. • Relevant computer skills – Able to navigate between screens and accurately enter data.
WORK ENVIRONMENT An office environment with a controlled atmosphere. Possible exposure to staff or patients with communicable diseases and blood borne pathogens.
OTHER PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Vision (Near, Distance, Color, Peripheral, Depth Perception), normal range of hearing, ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (gloves, face mask, eye shield, gown), standing for long periods of time



