Optometrist

Matrix Providers • Columbus, MS

71d • Onsite

About The Position

Matrix Providers is hiring an Optometrist to join our team of talented professionals who provide health care services to our Military Service Members and their families in Columbus, GA. This is a full-time hourly position with a compensation range of $94.00-$99.00. The schedule is Monday - Friday from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. We offer a competitive financial package with a comprehensive insurance package including health, dental, vision, and life coverage, accrued Paid Time Off (PTO), paid holidays, and a 401(k) Plan. We support our employees with an accessible dedicated representative to assist you throughout the duration of your contract. We firmly believe that a healthy work/life balance enables you to perform at your best. Our mission is to serve America’s military family by aligning exceptional healthcare workers like you with rewarding career opportunities. Come home to Matrix. Matrix Providers is an equal opportunity employer.

Requirements

• Doctor of Optometry (O.D.) from a school or college of optometry accredited by the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education (ACOE) and approved by the Air Force Surgeon General in the year of the applicant’s graduation.
• As required to meet clinical com Warfighter Refractive Surgery Clinic requires this Optometrist to have an additional four (4) years of experience in a refractive surgery clinic (LASIK Center) for a total of six (6) cumulative year of experience.
• Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice as an optometrist.
• Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers, American Heart Association, or American Red Cross Healthcare Provider Course.

Responsibilities

• Examine, diagnose, treat or prescribe courses of treatment for those suffering from diseases, injuries, or disorders of the visual system, the eye, and associated structures as well as diagnose related systemic conditions.
• Promote prevention and wellness, vision conservation, education and training activities, vision screenings, and positive eye and vision health behaviors.
• Conduct vision research in a problem area of considerable scope and complexity which requires novel approaches and which results in answers to important questions or important changes in existing methods and techniques.
• Advise and make professional clinical recommendations as to courses of action on problems and considerations of national scope in all areas of optometry.
• Provide full spectrum of clinical services to treat the most complex optometric related patient conditions.
• Participate in squadron process improvement activities, evaluation of squadron performance, and optometric-related research and provide training to ophthalmic technicians, other optometrists, and other wing staff as appropriate.
• Process improvement activities will include, but not limited to peer reviews.
• Meet peer review documentation requirements for credentialing standards and AFMS coding audits.
• Examination, diagnosis, treatment, and management of diseases and disorder of the visual system, the eye, and associated structures, as well as diagnosis of related systemic conditions utilizing refractive, pharmaceutical, and rehabilitative (low vision, contact lens, and binocular vision) procedures.
• Utilization and prescription of pharmaceutical agents for the examination of the eye and adnexa as well as treatment and management of vision disorders, diseases, and conditions of the eye and adnexa.
• Utilization and prescription of ophthalmic and other rehabilitative prosthetic devices (including spectacles, ballistic protective/gas mask inserts, contact lenses, low vision devices, etc.) and training in their use.
• Provide pre and post-operative care of corneal refractive surgery patients to include manifest refraction, pre-operative examination/screening, interpretation of pre-operative corneal topography/wave scans and post-operative management (new addition).
• Consultations with attending physicians and others, when requested, to augment the care of patients; referral to appropriate health care providers of patients with medical, surgical, psychiatric, and rehabilitative conditions; health education and sight conservation programs to inform patients of potential ocular complications of disease processes and to prevent loss of sight or reduced visual performance as a result of safety hazards or environmental influences; emergency care not within scope of other approved privileges to prevent imminent vision loss.
• Performs clinical procedures to include refractive status determination; binocular vision status determination; ocular and adnexal health evaluation; external, anterior segment, and fundus photography with interpretation; ocular electrodiagnostic measurement with interpretation; ocular diagnostic imaging(ultrasonographic and laser) measurement with interpretation; ocular angiographic (fluorescein and indocyanine green) photography with interpretation; epilation of lashes; expression of adnexal glands; examination, testing, insertion of temporary and permanent punctual plugs; removal of no perforating foreign bodies from the eye and adnexa; corneal debridement; corneal scraping for culturing.
• Consultations with Flight Medicine physicians to augment care of aircrew and special duty personnel.
• Performs, documents and interprets specialized vision tests described in AFI 48-123, Medical Examinations and Standards.
• Assist Optometry and Ophthalmology Clinics with providing care for acute walk-in patients as time permits to ensure timely care of all patients without adversely impacting refractive surgery clinic flow.

Benefits

• Competitive financial package
• Comprehensive insurance package including health, dental, vision, and life coverage
• Accrued Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays
• 401(k) Plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior