Optician/Travel – Atlanta – Optical Experience Required
About Vision To Learn:
Join Vision To Learn and make a direct impact in your community by helping provide vision services to school-aged children in underserved communities who would otherwise go without access to care. Competitive pay, no nights, and federal holidays (other than very select voluntary exceptions).
Vision To Learn is the largest school-based vision care nonprofit in the country. VTL exists to address one basic premise – if you can’t see, you can’t learn. Vision To Learn provides free eye exams and free glasses to students in underserved communities to help them succeed in school and in life. Founded in Los Angeles in 2012, Vision To Learn has since expanded to schools across the country. Vision care is critical as 80% of all learning during a child’s first 12 years is visual. We work to solve the problem of lack of access by partnering with school districts to provide eye exams and glasses at no charge to families. We have provided over 2 million vision screening, 578,000 eye exams and 465,000 pairs of eye glasses in the last decade.
Who We Are:
We are a group of friendly, high energy, knowledgeable, and detail-oriented professionals committed to Vision To Learn’s mission. We approach our work with a value system of service excellence, empathy, integrity, open communication, empowerment, and an eagerness to help the communities we serve.
We are looking for an Optician like you to join our team with a positive, proactive attitude, and a commitment to our mission.
Position Description:
Vision To Learn is seeking a qualified candidate for a Traveling Optician. Optical experience required. This position will be full-time 5 days/week, with some weekend overnight stays. Bi-Weekly Overnight travel in the company’s mobile sprinter, 5-7 days to one of the following rural counties: Brantley, Atkinson, Troup, Floyd, Bibb, Richmond, and other rural counties. Will also support local Metro Atlanta operations that serve: DeKalb, Clayton, Fulton, Cobb, Gwinnett, Douglas, and Henry counties.
Key position responsibilities:
Patient Responsibilities:
- Conduct vision screenings in predetermined sites.
- Act as a runner on site at schools
- Conduct pre-testing for eye examinations and maintain the highest possible professional standard
- Assist patients with selecting frames and measure patients for size of eyeglasses, under the supervision of a licensed optometrist
- Coordinate frames with facial and eye measurements and optical prescription.
- Receive, sort, and conduct quality check on glasses orders
- Study and follow Vision To Learn health and safety protocols
- Provide service to the following counties: Rural Counties Served: Brantley, Atkinson, Troup, Floyd, Bibb, Richmond, and other rural counties. Metro Atlanta Counties served: DeKalb, Clayton, Fulton, Cobb, Gwinnett, Douglas, and Henry.
- Prepare and maintain daily reports.
Clinic Responsibilities:
- Maintain the highest possible professional standards in driving performance, and customer service to the patients while on board the vehicle.
- Set up the clinic, monitor inventory, and ensure that all patient and administrative paperwork facilitates an efficient workflow.
- Oversee operation of a mobile eye clinic. Load, secure, inspect and fuel vehicle before and as necessary during the course of the shift.
- Responsible for safe transportation of the vehicle to predetermined site visits and return to secure parking facility.
- Keep vehicle and internal work area within vehicle organized and clean for safety and efficiency.
Additional responsibilities as needed
Who You Are:
· Ability to display exceptional interpersonal skills when interacting with children, site contacts, patient families, and in all internal/external work interactions
· Desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and have technical skills
· Desire to be cross trained to expand your skillset
· Self-starter who is confident to implement Vision To Learn protocols and embrace a remote setting with limited supervision
· Excellent organizational and prioritization skills
· Strong interpersonal and written communication skills
· Able to lift up to 20 lbs. and to exert well-paced mobility for an 8-hour shift including standing, walking, bending and squatting
Qualifications
- Optician Diploma; Optician certification (COA, COT, NCLE, AND ABO) preferred but not required
- Valid driver's license required, with good driving record and familiarity with greater Atlanta, GA geography and familiarity with phone GPS; driving transcript must be provided
- Successful track record of working with children and school administrators
- Must pass Department of Justice background check (LiveScan) and drug test
- Experienced using Microsoft Office – outlook, excel, word; EMR systems experience a plus.
- Spanish or other language skills a plus
Successful candidates will have a proven track record for quality patient care, with positive, proactive attitudes who are dedicated to our mission. Vision To Learn is a rapidly growing organization and team players are critical to our collective success. For more information, please visit www.visiontolearn.org.
Qualified candidates, please send cover letter and resume to careers@visiontolearn.org, joseph.venzie@visiontolearn.org and abrowne@visiontolearn.org.
News To Share
In 2022, Vision To Learn was selected by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof as a recipient of the well know Holiday Impact Prize. This Prize recognizes non-profits helping children in need through outstanding, heroic work that changes communities for the better. https://kristofimpact.org/ http://tiny.cc/VTLKristof
The work done by VTL has also been featured in The Washington Post, ESPN, PBS News Hour, countless local television pieces and newspaper articles. VTL was commended by the US Senate in a bi-partisan resolution signed by 43 Senators. In terms of evidence-based service, glasses provided by VTL have been found to have a high impact on the academic success of students by researchers at both UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and Johns Hopkins University.
Vision To Learn is committed to a diverse staff and to a culture that holds equity as a value and a priority. VTL welcomes applicants who bring a variety of perspectives, experiences, and competencies. People of color, women, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ persons are strongly encouraged to apply. VTL is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, creed, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, party or political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or any illegal or prohibited factor.
As a direct healthcare provider and to protect the health and well-being of our employees, VTL has implemented best practices for ensuring a clean and safe work environment. Employees will be asked to pass a Department of Justice background check/fingerprinting (LiveScan), TB, and drug test.
Salary Range $22-$28
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday with some weekend travel depending on the region where we will be working.
- No nights
Experience:
- Optical: 1 year (Required)
- Customer Service: 1 year (Required)
