Surgery Ophthalmic Technician

ClearSight Center•Plano, TX

About The Position

ClearSight is hiring an experienced, full-time Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) Surgery Ophthalmic Technician to join its surgery team. The role supports lens replacement, cataract surgery, and laser vision correction procedures, including SMILE, LASIK, and PRK. Experience in this setting and CST certification are required. The technician will be trained as a pre-operative and post-operative technician, laser technician, and medical assistant, and in all areas of surgery. The role requires excellent in-person communication, computer and organizational skills, quick and precise data entry, and the ability to learn quickly and work accurately in a multitasking environment. The technician must be able to work on their feet all day, run multiple diagnostic devices and lasers, assist with procedures, and take direction and correction. Experience or education in sterile technique is required. ClearSight describes its team as collaborative and focused on helping patients feel comfortable and confident throughout their LASIK, CLR, and cataract surgery experiences. The company says it and its surgeons have helped people see better without glasses or contacts for 30 years.

Requirements

Experience in the ophthalmic surgery setting is required.
CST certification is required.
Experience or education in sterile technique is required.
Excellent in-person communication skills.
Good computer and organizational skills.
Ability to learn quickly and become proficient in operating multiple diagnostic devices and lasers and assisting with procedures.
Ability to work on one's feet all day.
Ability to work quickly, accurately, and in a multitasking environment, and to take direction and correction.
Ability to work well with others.
Reliability and punctuality, including staying until work is done.

Responsibilities

Support lens replacement, cataract surgery, and laser vision correction procedures, including SMILE, LASIK, and PRK.
Perform duties across pre-operative and post-operative care, laser technology, medical assisting, and other areas of surgery after training.
Assist with various procedures and operate multiple diagnostic devices and lasers.
Enter data quickly and accurately.
Work collaboratively with the team and take direction and correction.