Optician at Soteria Eye Clinic

Location: Uyo, Akwa Ibom

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Opticians main duties are, design, measure, fit, and adapt lenses and frames for client according to written optical prescription or specification.
• Measure customer for size of eyeglasses and coordinate frames with facial and eye measurements and optical prescription.
• Prepare work order for optical laboratory containing instructions for grinding and mounting lenses in frames. Verify exactness of finished lens spectacles.
• Adjust frame and lens position to fit client.

Duties

• Provide expert service to customers regarding their optical needs
• Measure, fit, adapt, adjust and repair eyewear. Repair frames by replacing hinges, nose pads or temples.
• Manufacture lenses in on-site finishing lab (when possible) to measurements taken.
• Verify that finished lenses are ground to specific.
• Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
• Take appropriate markings on the patient’s frame and fixing with axis orientation
• Prepare and deliver work orders to the laboratory for lens grinding and eyewear fabrication, as needed.
• Verify quality and measurements of materials returned from the lab.
• Maintain knowledge and awareness of current trends in eyewear and ophthalmic lens technology.
• Order and verify contact lens orders.
• Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centres of eyes, using measuring devices.

Qualifications and Experience

• OND, HND or Secondary School Certificate with license from the Optometrist & Dispensing Opticians Registration Board of Nigeria
• 2 years of experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired is necessary.

Skills Required:

• Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Good inter-personal skills.
• An eye for detail, colour co-ordination and style is imperative to help people make the right choice about something that may become a near permanent fixture on their face (spectacles).
• Confidence in working with specialist and technical equipment. Precise measurements and tests are the mainstay in an optician's working life.
• A good grasp of mathematics is vital, as you will be working with complex measurements and figures and be expected to perform conversions with these.
• Ability to work with others.
• Ability to handle stressful situations and work to tight deadlines.
• A people person.
• Excellent personal hygiene.