Optician - Dispensing - Full Time

UHS•Riverside, CA

18d

About The Position

Riverside Medical Clinic is seeking a full-time Optician - Dispensing to promote eyewear sales, serve optical customers, and maintain the optical shop. The role may require travel to other facilities or optical shops. The optician performs patient work-ups, evaluates prescriptions and visual needs, recommends lenses and frames, prepares orders for lens grinding and eyeglass fabrication, sells and dispenses eyewear and contact lenses, and supports customers with fitting, use, and care. The position also includes quality checks and adjustments, repairs, inventory and budget responsibilities, payment processing, customer follow-up, and maintaining current optician or dispensing certification.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Graduation from an accredited Optical Dispensing Program, or one to two years of related experience.
Maintain current Optician certification or Dispensing certification.

Nice To Haves

American Board of Optician Certified (ABOC) certification.
National Contact Lens Certified (NCLC) certification.

Responsibilities

Perform preliminary patient work-ups and determine current contact lens or eyeglass prescriptions using a lensometer or lens analyzer and the patient's eyeglasses as needed.
Measure patients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers.
Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with patients' visual requirements and recommend lenses, coatings, and frames suited to their needs and measurements.
Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
Sell and dispense contact lenses and eyeglasses, and instruct patients in adapting to, wearing, and caring for them.
Verify that finished lenses meet specifications and received contact lenses match prescriptions; adjust eyeglasses by heating, shaping, or bending frames.
Sell optical goods such as plano sunglasses, magnifying glasses, and low-vision aids.
Repair damaged frames or send them to an optical lab as needed.
Maintain inventory levels and handle fiscal responsibilities related to the budget.
Collect payments, process tic sheets, and balance receipts.
Call customers with updates on the status of their requests.
Maintain current optician or dispensing certification.
Travel to other facilities or optical shops as needed.