Optician at Soteria Eye Clinic

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.
• Assist client with selecting frames.
• 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.
• May shape or reshape frames.
• As a dispensing optician you will dispense and fit spectacles and other optical aids, to both adults and children, working from the prescriptions written by optometrists and ophthalmologists

Duties

• Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centres of eyes, using measuring devices.
• Verify that finished lenses are ground to specific.
• Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames in order to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
• Repair damaged frames.
• Interpret optical prescriptions written by optometrists or ophthalmologists.
• Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
• Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
• Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, then fitting the lenses into frames.
• Supervise the training of student opticians.
• Identification of lenses.
• Reading of lenses
• Take appropriate markings on the patient’s frame and fixing with axis orientation.
• Chipping of lenses.
• Fixing all type of lenses on a frame
• Frame maintenance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements and Skills

• OND qualification with a minimum of 2 years experience.
• 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.
• An optician is a client-facing role. You will be dealing with the general public so it is important you have 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.