Optician Recruitment at Soteria Eye Clinic Limited: This is to inform the general public that Soteria Eye Clinic Limited offers Job in the area of Medical/ Healthcare / Pharmaceutical. See, application deadline,work level,job specialization,job location,job type and method of application below!
JOB SUMMARY BELOW
- Company: Soteria Eye Clinic Limited
- Deadline Date: 1st June, 2022
- Specialization: Medical/ Healthcare / Pharmaceutical
- Work Level: Experienced (Non-Manager)
- Job Type: Full-Time
- Experience: 3-5 years
- Location(s): Lagos
Job/Company Description:
Soteria Eye Clinic is a contemporary state-of-the-art Optometric and Optical Care Clinic. Centrally located in Lagos Nigeria, with operations in strategic geographical zones in the south, at Delta and Akwa-Ibom. Soteria’s, optometrists and highly knowledgeable staff are committed to providing quality eye examination, along with impeccable treatment and services. The expertise at Soteria Clinic offers top-grade eye care. Including choice designer frames, contact lenses and sunglasses.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Position: Optician
Job Location: Chevron, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
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.
Other Duties:
- The marginal functions of this position have not been included.
- This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties to be performed.
- An employee will be required to follow any other job-related duties required by the manager or supervisor.
Requirements
- Candidates should possess an OND qualification with a minimum of 2 years of work experience.
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.
- 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.
- Managerial skills are important if you wish to advance in your career.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: hrmadmin@soteriaeyeclinic.com using the Job position as the subject of the mail.
