(PRI) Associate Optometrist PR - Store 2067

Walmart•Mayagüez, PR

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Optometrist provides evidence-based vision care to ensure patients' health and wellbeing. This includes recommending treatment options (e.g., for red eye, LASIK, cataract surgery), performing pretesting, delivering routine vision care, educating patients and store associates on eye health, managing disease states, and ensuring safety factors. The role involves recommending appropriate patient follow-up, consulting with other health professionals to coordinate care plans, providing referrals to ophthalmologists and other healthcare professionals, and following up on diagnostics. The optometrist evaluates patients' health conditions across the full vision center scope of service, including visual acuity, visual function, eye health, keratometry, and refraction, to ensure proper diagnosis and treatment. This is achieved by reviewing medical history, performing comprehensive eye examinations using observation instruments and pharmaceutical agents, prescribing, fitting, and adjusting eyeglasses, contact lenses, and other vision aids. They also suggest, order, interpret, and assess diagnostic tests (e.g., glaucoma testing, macular degeneration OCT), provide additional vision treatment (e.g., foreign body removal), develop treatment plans based on evidence-based guidelines and patient preferences, refer patients with non-vision medical conditions to appropriate community providers, and complete timely documentation. The position represents the company in vision care and patient engagement by delivering exceptional customer service, maintaining patient information in vision center systems, assisting vision center staff, ensuring adherence to healthcare regulations and company guidelines, and performing administrative and retail tasks. The optometrist works with internal and external stakeholders to ensure coordinated patient care and high-quality customer service, and is expected to embrace new equipment, technology, and advanced instrumentation such as digital phoropters, EMR Maestro, and OCT retinal camera combo. Beyond clinical duties, the role contributes to overall direction by analyzing business objectives, developing and implementing business strategies, analyzing costs and forecasts, determining resource requirements, evaluating operational processes, identifying improvement opportunities, promoting a customer environment, and sponsoring continuous learning. It also involves developing strategies to attract and maintain a skilled workforce, cultivating an ethical environment, and leveraging internal and external partnerships. Walmart is committed to helping customers save money and is reinventing the shopping experience, with associates playing a crucial role in shaping the the future of retail.

Responsibilities

Provides evidence-based vision care to ensure patients' health and wellbeing by recommending other treatment options (e.g., red eye, LASIK surgery, cataract surgery) using evidence-based care guidelines, performance of pretesting and recording of results, delivering routine vision care, educating patients and store associates on eye health (including contact lens care, disease state management, and safety factors), recommending appropriate patient follow-up, consulting with other health professionals to prepare and coordinate patient care plans in accordance with optometry scope of practice per state board, providing patients with appropriate referrals as needed to ophthalmologists and other healthcare professionals, and following up with patient and other health professionals regarding any outstanding diagnostics tests or other patient information as needed.
Evaluates patients' health condition across and within the full vision center scope of service (e.g., visual acuity, visual function, and eye health, keratometry, refraction) to ensure proper diagnosis and treatment by reviewing complete patient medical history information and performing comprehensive eye examinations, examining eyes utilizing observation instruments and pharmaceutical agents to determine visual acuity and perception, focus and coordination, as well as identify signs of vision defects (e.g., injury, disease, abnormality), prescribing, fitting, and adjusting eyeglasses, contact lenses, and other vision aids, suggesting, ordering, interpreting, and assessing diagnostic tests (e.g., glaucoma testing, macular degeneration Optical Coherence Tomography OCT), providing additional vision treatment (e.g., foreign body removal) as necessary, developing treatment plans based on patients' clinical presentation using evidence-based care guidelines and patient preferences, referring patients with medical conditions outside of vision care services to appropriate community providers, and completing documentation of patient history, physical assessment, and treatment plan in a timely manner.
Represents the company in vision care and patient engagement by delivering exceptional customer service through all patient interactions, maintaining and updating patient information in vision center systems (e.g., BOSS) in a timely, accurate, and confidential manner, assisting vision center staff (e.g., opticians) on best practices and procedures, ensuring adherence to state, local, and federal healthcare regulations and Walmart vision center guidelines, performing administrative and retail tasks for the vision center as necessary (e.g., financial transactions, patient registration, retail transactions), and working with internal stakeholders (e.g., pharmacist, clinics, store management) and external stakeholders (e.g., external health care professionals) to ensure overall coordinated and integrated patient care experience and high quality customer service.
Embraces new equipment, technology, and advanced instrumentation.
Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs, developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices, analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans, determining and supporting resource requirements, evaluating operational processes, measuring outcomes to ensure desired results, identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities, promoting a customer environment, and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning.
Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps, recruiting, selecting, and developing talent, supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning, and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent.
Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices, developing consequences for violations or noncompliance, and supporting the Open Door Policy.
Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives, engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives, and supporting associate efforts in these areas.
Builds high-performing teams, embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creates a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, and creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform.
Works collaboratively, builds strong and trusting relationships, and communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
Attracts and retains the best talent, empowers and develops talent, and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, models the Walmart values to support and foster our culture, holds oneself and others accountable, and supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).
Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent.
Delivers results while putting the customer first, considers and adapts to how, where, and when customers shop, and applies the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.
Makes decisions based on data, insights, and analysis, balances short and long-term priorities, and considers our customers, fellow associates, shareholders, suppliers, business partners, and communities when making plans.
Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, demonstrates courage and resilience, and encourages learning from mistakes.
Drives continuous improvements, adopts and encourages the use of new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.

Benefits

Competitive pay
Performance-based bonus awards
Medical coverage
Vision coverage
Dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
Vacation
Sick leave according to policy
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement
Jury duty
Voting leave
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
Fertility benefits
Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities, covering high school completion to bachelor's degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates, with tuition, books, and fees completely paid for by Walmart).