Optometrist

Clarksburg VA Medical Center is committed to serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans.

The primary duties & responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to:

• Delivering high quality primary eye & vision care services; examining for and prescribing corrective lens, ordering diagnostic imaging and laboratory studies; preparing referrals for diagnosis, treatment & management of systemic and ocular conditions revealed through optometric examination.

• Providing patient and family education regarding ocular health issues.

• Providing emergency care, evaluating/managing/triaging emergent, non-surgical eye conditions; problem-oriented care, managing patients referred with complaints typical of routine eye care disorders; preventive health services, performing mandated examinations such as diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma screenings, performing compensation and pension exams.

• Performing clinical procedures, such as: medical and ocular history, visual acuity measurement, pupillary function testing, color vision testing, extraocular muscle function and binocularity testing, refractive and accommodative testing, external examination of the eye and adnexal structures, biomicroscopic evaluation of the ocular/anterior/posterior segments of the eye, including fundus lens evaluation.

• Collaborating with other optometrists, ophthalmologists, nursing staff, technicians and administrators to facilitate operations within the service to meet common goals.

• Performing the administrative components of patient care management, including timely completion of progress notes, consults and encounters for all patient.

• The selectee is to have a high level of flexibility and commitment to meet the dynamic needs of an evolving patient care system.

• Other duties as assigned.

Hours: Monday through Friday; 8:00am - 4:30pm.