Optometrist
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Description: Southcentral Foundation is employing Optometrist right now, this job will be delegated in Alaska. For complete informations about this job opportunity kindly see the descriptions. Provides direct optometric services to customer-owners in support of the overall objectives of the Optometry program.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
Customer Care & Relationships:
Creates, develo! ps, and nurtures culturally appropriate interactions and connections with each other, customer-owners, and the community.
Independently examines, diagnoses, treats, and manages disorders and diseases of the eye and associated structures within the scope of the privileges approved by the Joint Operating Board (JOB) or as assigned.
- Completely and accurately obtains information in a courteous and respectful manner in order to determine an appropriate treatment plan.
- Sets the expectation with the customer-owner by listening to their concerns and addressing those that can be addressed and informing the customer-owner of the course of action to follow for other health concerns.
- Performs treatments quickly, efficiently and thoroughly while keeping the customer-owner informed and being sensitive to the customer-owner's comfort during the treatment.
- Prescribes and uses spectacle lenses, optical aids, vision therapy, and pharmaceutical! agents as permitted by licensure. Contact lenses may be presc! ribed.
Shares and receives information, opinions, concerns, and feedback in a supportive manner.
Works collaboratively by building bridges, and creating rapport with team members within departments and across the organization.
Communicates effectively with staff, customer-owners and families.
- Provides clear and concise verbal and written instructions to ensure that these instructions are understood.
- Prepares customer-owner notes legibly and clearly in order to provide adequate information for other health care providers.
- Appropriately addresses health care issues.
- Advises customer-owners and family members to facilitate a capacity for self-care and a move toward a healthcare partnership between providers, customer-owners and their families.
- Counsels and instructs customer-owners and family members either directly or by referral to the appropriate provider.
- Uses the computer system to assist in providing quality customer-owner care.
- Provides assistance to the health care providers by answering questions regarding customer-owner care.
- Works in coordination with the health care providers and case managers to develop treatment plans for customer-owners.
Ability to communicate effectively.
Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary health care team.
Improvement & Innovation:
Makes meaningful improvement to services, program, and processes and/or organizational effectiveness that creates new value for customer-owners and employees.
Participa! tes in fulfilling the mission, vision, goals and objectives of the orga! nization..
- Works with all other staff in the department as a member of the department and the system.
- Maintains a clean work environment including adequate supplies and upkeep of unit and equipment. Reports defective or missing equipment and safety hazards. Assists in disaster planning and activities.
- Coordinates and works with other team members to ensure the efficient and effective flow of customer-owners though the department.
- Applies customer service guidelines appropriate for the situation.
- Assists in committee and other duties within the Department.
- Monitors the quality of care delivered.
- Completes chart reviews on a regular basis.
- Provides and reviews feedback from Supervisor on the quality of care being delivered to ensure JCAHO and other regulatory standards are met.
Seeks out additional learning opportunities to continue to develop the technical and professional skills needed now and in the future.
Takes responsibility for all work activities and personal actions by following through on commitments.
Ability to efficiently and effectively manage multiple clinical tasks.
Knowledge of 1974 Privacy Act is required as use of customer-owner record is an integral part of the position and privacy of individuals must be protected to the fullest.
Proficiency in the use of appropriate computer software and hardware.
Ability to perform job with minimal supervision.
Ability to maintain quality, safety and infection control standards.
QUALIFICATIONS:
SCF programs are established for the purpose of serving a primary population comprised of Alaska Natives who are affiliated with the Cook Inlet Region Inc! . (CIRI), and Alaska Natives and American Indians within SCF’s geograp! hical service area. Employees should have a thorough understanding of the cultures and the needs of the CIRI members, and of the general culture and needs of Alaska Natives and American Indians. Such knowledge is critical in order to ensure the achievement of the mission and vision of SCF: working together with the Native community to provide the best services with Native staff who value the family and family wellness as the heart of the Native community.
Degree in optometry required.
Post training clinical experience preferred.
Current Alaska license to practice optometry including diagnostic and therapeutic pharmaceutical endorsement.
Meets all requirements in order to obtain medical staff membership and required privileges of service.
Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification is required.
Working Environment:
- Employee may be exposed to: work near moving mechanical parts (to 2/3 time); outdoor weather conditions (to time)! .
- Noise level: Moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers and printers, light traffic).
- Position requires: stand (to 2/3 time); walk (to 2/3 time); sit (to 2/3 time); use hands to finger, handle or feel (over 2/3 time); reach with hands and arms (to 2/3 time); stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl (under 1/3 time); talk or hear (over 2/3 time).
- Weight lifted or force exerted: Up to 10 pounds (over 2/3 time), Up to 25 pounds (over 2/3 time), Up to 50 pounds (under 1/3 time).
- Special vision requirements: Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less), Distance Vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), Peripheral Vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point). Depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships). Abi! lity to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into! sharp focus).
- Additional physical demands: employee may be required to work holidays, evenings, weekends, and nights; employee may be required to provide customer-owner care in the customer-owner’s home or in other locations away from employee’s primary work site; travel may be required.
Age of Customer-Owner Population Served
Population
- Neonate (birth- 28 days)
- Infant (29 days- less than 1 year)
- Pediatric (1-12 yrs)
- Adolescent (13-17 yrs)
- Adult (18-64 yrs)
- Geriatric (65 yrs & older)
- Customer-owner with exceptional communication needs
- Customer-owner with developmental delays
Please complete an online application by clicking the 'Apply' button at the top/bottom of this page. For more information contact Human Resources via the SCF Contact page or (907) 729-4977! or Toll free at 1-800-478-3343
NATIVE PREFERENCE UNDER P.L. 93-638.
Preference will not be given unless certification is submitted to Human Resources (a copy is acceptable).
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This job will be opened on: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 04:39:45 GMT