Optometrist

About the position

The Optometrist position at the Department of Veterans Affairs Coesville VA Medical Center involves providing comprehensive eye and vision care to eligible veterans. This role requires travel to the Delaware County and Norristown Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) and includes responsibilities such as diagnosing and treating eye diseases, performing eye examinations, and collaborating with other healthcare professionals to ensure optimal patient care. The position is part-time, requiring 20 hours of work per week, and is focused on delivering high-quality optometric services to veterans.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality primary optometric and vision care services as delineated in the clinical privileges.
• Examine eyes, lids, adnexa, and the visual systems of patients.
• Provide basic low vision evaluation and services.
• Diagnose, manage, and treat refractive conditions, binocular functions, ocular diseases and conditions, and ocular complications of systemic disease.
• Order diagnostic ocular imaging.
• Provide patient and family education regarding ocular health issues.
• Refer patients to ophthalmology for diagnosis, treatment, and management of systemic and ocular conditions revealed through optometric examinations.
• Evaluate, manage, and triage emergent, non-surgical eye conditions.
• Manage patients referred with complaints typical of routine eye care disorders.
• Perform health services and mandated examinations such as diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma screenings.
• Conduct clinical evaluations including 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, and biomicroscopic evaluation of the ocular adnexa, anterior, and/or posterior segments of the eye.
• Collaborate with other optometrists, ophthalmologists, nursing staff, technicians, and administrators to facilitate operations within the service.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Degree of Doctor of Optometry from an accredited school or college of optometry.
• Licensed to practice optometry in a state, territory, or commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in a clinical setting providing optometric care.
• Familiarity with electronic health record systems.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package as a federal employee.
• Access to a range of health and wellness programs.
• Potential for career advancement within the VA system.