Optometrist - Sam's Club

Walmart • Elmsford, NY

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Provides evidence-based vision care to ensure patients' health and well-being by recommending and prescribing medications and other treatment options (e.g., red eye, LASIK surgery, cataract surgery) using evidence-based care guidelines. Delivers routine vision care, educates patients and store associates on eye health (including contact lens care, disease state management, and safety factors), and recommends appropriate patient follow-up. Consults 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 the patient and other health professionals regarding any outstanding diagnostic 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. Examines 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). Prescribes, fits, and adjusts eyeglasses, contact lenses, and other vision aids. Suggests, orders, interprets, and assesses diagnostic tests (e.g., glaucoma testing, macular degeneration, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)). Provides additional vision treatment (e.g., foreign body removal) as necessary. Develops treatment plans based on patients' clinical presentation using evidence-based care guidelines. 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. Performs administrative and retail tasks for the vision center as necessary (e.g., financial transactions, patient registration, retail transactions) and works 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. 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. Respect the individual: 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, creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform. Respect the individual: Works collaboratively, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence. Respect the individual: Attracts and retains the best talent, empowers and develops talent, and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments. Act with Integrity: 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, 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). Act with Integrity: Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent. Serve Our Customers and Members: 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. Serve Our Customers and Members: 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. Strive for Excellence: Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, demonstrates courage and resilience, and encourages learning from mistakes. Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements, adopts and encourages the use of new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree in Optometry (OD) from accredited optometry school.
• Licensed optometrist in good standing in state of practice.

Nice To Haves

• Completion of a post-graduate year one (PGY-1) in area of emphasis (e.g., family practice, low vision care, pediatric or geriatric optometry, ocular disease).

Responsibilities

• Provides evidence-based vision care to ensure patients' health and well-being.
• Recommends and prescribes medications and other treatment options.
• Delivers routine vision care.
• Educates patients and store associates on eye health.
• Recommends appropriate patient follow-up.
• Consults with other health professionals to prepare and coordinate patient care plans.
• Provides patients with appropriate referrals as needed to ophthalmologists and other healthcare professionals.
• Follows up with patient and other health professionals regarding any outstanding diagnostics tests or other patient information.
• Evaluates patients' health condition across and within the full vision center scope of service.
• Reviews complete patient medical history information and performs comprehensive eye examinations.
• Examines eyes utilizing observation instruments and pharmaceutical agents.
• Prescribes, fits, and adjusts eyeglasses, contact lenses, and other vision aids.
• Suggests, orders, interprets, and assesses diagnostic tests.
• Provides additional vision treatment as necessary.
• Develops treatment plans based on patients' clinical presentation.
• Represents the company in vision care and patient engagement by delivering exceptional customer service.
• Maintains and updates patient information in vision center systems.
• Assists vision center staff on best practices and procedures.
• Ensures adherence to state, local, and federal healthcare regulations and Walmart vision center guidelines.
• Performs administrative and retail tasks for the vision center as necessary.
• Works with internal and external stakeholders to ensure overall coordinated and integrated patient care experience and high-quality customer service.
• Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs.
• Develops, communicates, builds support for, and implements business strategies, plans, and practices.
• Analyzes costs and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans.
• Determines and supports resource requirements.
• Evaluates operational processes and measures outcomes.
• Identifies and capitalizes on improvement opportunities.
• Promotes a customer environment and demonstrates adaptability.
• Sponsors continuous learning.
• Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce.
• Diagnoses capability gaps, recruits, selects, and develops talent.
• Supports mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning.
• Leverages the capabilities of new and existing talent.
• Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics.
• Develops consequences for violations or noncompliance and supports the Open Door Policy.
• Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals.
• Sponsors and leads key community outreach and involvement initiatives.
• Engages key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives.
• Supports associate efforts in community outreach and involvement.
• 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.
• Creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform.
• Works collaboratively.
• Builds strong and trusting relationships.
• Communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
• Attracts and retains the best talent.
• Empowers and develops talent.
• 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.
• Supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us.
• 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.
• Applies the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.
• Makes decisions based on data, insights, and analysis.
• Balances short- and long-term priorities.
• 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.
• Encourages learning from mistakes.
• Drives continuous improvements.
• Adopts and encourages the use of new technologies and skills.
• Supports others through change.

Benefits

• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance
• Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• Live Better U is a company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree