Optometric Technician

Virginia Vision Therapy Center

107d • Onsite

About The Position

Become an Optometry Technician and dramatically improve lives! Virginia Vision Therapy Center (VVTC) is looking for an exceptional person who is committed to impacting lives by providing vision therapy services at our unique healthcare practice. You are willing to successfully overcome various kinds of training challenges to fully develop yourself and our patients. You wish to lead and contribute to the growth of our practice as a member of our clinical team. You are a team player, willing to support fellow staff with hard work, kindness, and honesty. You are willing to engage fully with our mission and vision, committed to curiosity and clinical excellence. What is Vision Therapy? Vision therapy is designed to teach the patient how the brain controls the eyes, to improve their visual skills and how to apply these new skills to improve reading, learning, concentration and attention. Vision therapy is a fully customized and personalized treatment program designed to improve and strengthen visual skills, and re-train the visual system to interpret visual input with increased accuracy and ease. Vision therapy is more than just simple eye exercises — it improves brain-eye communication and the effective operating of the visual system.

Requirements

• Customer service experience
• Healthcare experience
• Experience with children preferred
• Pre-health, OTA, PTA, or other similar programs helpful
• Ability to perform physical VT tasks and activities

Nice To Haves

• Customer service experience
• Healthcare experience
• Experience with children
• Pre-health, OTA, PTA, or other similar programs

Responsibilities

• Providing vision therapy services
• Overcoming training challenges to develop self and patients
• Leading and contributing to practice growth as a member of the clinical team
• Supporting fellow staff with hard work, kindness, and honesty
• Engaging fully with the mission and vision, committed to curiosity and clinical excellence
• Performing physical VT tasks and activities

Benefits

• Paid training
• Travel time
• Option to become a Certified Optometric Vision Therapist (COVT)
• Employer reimburses tuition for COVT
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees