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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday 8am-5pm
Posted Date
01/23/2025
Salary Range: $0 - 0 Annually
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
21739

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

We are seeking a skilled and dedicated Optometrist to join the Comprehensive Division in Westwood. This position involves delivering exceptional patient care while collaborating with a dynamic clinical team in a high-volume setting. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
  • Perform imaging and comprehensive optometric examinations, including refractions, ocular motility, slit lamp biomicroscopy, tonometry, and fundus exams.
  • Provide patient education through written and verbal communication, addressing questions about surgical options, lens choices, medication, etc.
  • Participate in the identification and recruitment of patients who are eligible for participation in clinical trials. 
  • Assisting with Urgent Care clinic operations by supporting providers with clinic overflow, coverage, and addressing absences as needed.
  • Write prescriptions for glasses and authorize medication refills

Salary Range: $85,900-128,900

Job Qualifications

Required:
  • Possession and maintenance of an active license to practice optometry from the California Board of Optometry
  • Exceptional oral and written communication skills including knowledge of medical and ophthalmic terminology to establish effective working relations with all levels of university staff, faculty, trainees, and patients
  • Ability to work in a cooperative and collegial fashion with other members of the Division to provide exemplary patient care
  • Ability to work quickly and efficiently under a variable but often very busy workload
  • Ability to function in a research environment with patients who are enrolled in clinical study protocols
  • Ability to learn new routines quickly, to follow routines consistently, and identify better ways of accomplishing routine tasks
  • Proficiency in Apple and Windows operating systems, Microsoft Word and Excel, email, calendaring programs, and web browsers
  • Demonstrated or acquired competency in office and medical center based data and electronic records systems (ChartLogic, Epic/Kaleidoscope, etc.)

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.