(PRI) Associate Optometrist PR 1854

Walmart•Hatillo, PR

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Optometrist provides evidence-based vision care to ensure patients' health and wellbeing, including recommending treatment options, performing pretesting, delivering routine care, and educating patients on eye health. This role involves evaluating patients' health conditions across the full vision center scope of service, performing comprehensive eye examinations, prescribing vision aids, and developing treatment plans. The optometrist represents the company in patient engagement by delivering exceptional customer service, maintaining patient information, assisting vision center staff, and ensuring adherence to healthcare regulations. The position also requires embracing new equipment and technology, providing overall direction by analyzing business objectives, developing strategies, and managing resources. Furthermore, the role involves attracting and developing a skilled workforce, fostering an ethical environment, and leveraging internal and external partnerships for community outreach and business goals.

Responsibilities

Provides evidence-based vision care to ensure patients' health and wellbeing by recommending other treatment options for example 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 followup.
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.
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 for example 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 for example injury disease abnormality.
Prescribing fitting and adjusting eyeglasses contact lenses and other vision aids.
Suggesting ordering interpreting and assessing diagnostic tests for example glaucoma testing macular degeneration Optical Coherence Tomography OCT.
Providing additional vision treatment for example 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.
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 for example BOSS in a timely accurate and confidential manner.
Assisting vision center staff for example 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 for example financial transactions patient registration retail transactions.
Working with internal stakeholders for example pharmacist clinics store management and external stakeholders for example 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.

Benefits

Competitive pay
Performance-based bonus awards
Medical coverage
Vision coverage
Dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
Vacation
Sick leave
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement
Jury duty
Voting
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. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.)