Job Opportunities

Optician

Education and Experience:

• Licensed optician.
• Three years’ experience in dispensary operations.
• Working knowledge of inventory management, eyewear sales, and basic financial management.
• Familiar with managed vision care contracting.

Essential Skills and Abilities:

• Maintain all required state licensures.
• Demonstration of appropriate team player attitude and enthusiasm.
• Possesses a wide-ranging fund of knowledge applicable to optometric care and current trends in eyewear.
• Extensive experience and understanding of all aspects related to operations of a modern optical dispensary.

Responsibilities include:

• Measure patients’ bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance and optical centers of eye, using measuring devices. 
• Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with patients’ vocation and avocational visual requirements.  Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings and frames to suit client needs. Ensure patients are properly educated regarding their vision prescription and available options.
• Assist patients in selecting frames according to style and color and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements as well as optical prescriptions.
• Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses and other goods related to eyes. 
• Heat, shape or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust and repair eyeglasses to fit clients using pliers and hands. 
• Show customers how to insert, remove and care for their contact lenses and eyeglasses. 
• Determine patients’ current lens prescriptions using lensometers or lens analyzers and patients’ eyeglasses. 
• Maintain emphasis on profitable operations while satisfying patient needs.  Constantly assess financial performance and institute appropriate enhancements in consultation with the doctor.
• Work with manager and doctors to ensure comprehensive completion of all operational tasks.
• Perform administrative duties such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, maintaining patient records, collecting patient payments and submitting work orders. 
• Arrange, maintain and clean optical displays. 
• Ensure that all dispensary-related objectives are met.
• Work with area labs, frame reps and contact lens vendors to negotiate pricing and servicing.

Email resume to info@griffey2020.com

Ophthalmic Testing Technician

Griffey Eye Care’s growing practice has a position available for an Ophthalmic Testing Technician.

Responsibilities include:

• Performing diagnostic testing such as visual fields and OCTs
• Must be personable and willing to travel to both locations in Chesapeake (560 Kempsville Rd and 204 Carmichael Way in Edinburgh Commons).

Email resume to info@griffey2020.com

Medical Scribe

Griffey Eye Care has an opening for a full-time Ophthalmic Scribe in its busy Chesapeake office.

Education and Experience:

• Experience is required. MDOffice or comparable EMR experience preferred.
• Must be highly organized and able to keep up a fast pace and maintain an enthusiastic attitude.
• Benefits available

Email resume to info@griffey2020.com

Full-time Front Office Staff

This individual is responsible for answering phones and customer service.

Education and Experience:

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Computer Literate.
• Good phone etiquette and customer service skills.

Email resume to info@griffey2020.com