Miami University

Optometrist 1 (H) Full Time Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Miami, FL

Miami, FL · Staff+ · Contract

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About the role

  • To learn how to apply for a faculty or staff position, please review this tip sheet.
  • The University of Miami, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, has an exciting full time opportunity for an Optometrist 1 in Miami, Florida.
  • The Optometrist 1 examines patients' eyes to detect vision problems, diseases, and other abnormal conditions.

Requirements

  • Doctorate degree -
  • Optometry (OD) required Certification and Licensing:

Skills

  • Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands. -
  • Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment. -
  • Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications. -
  • Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.
  • Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year.
  • Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care.
  • The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.
  • Learning Agility:
  • Technical Proficiency:
  • Communication:
  • Employee Type:

Benefits

  • CORE JOB FUNCTIONS Tests, interviews, and examines patients having vision problems.
  • Employs low vision aids such as telescopic and microscopic lenses for correction of sub-normal vision.

Company info

  • As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, part of the Miller School of Medicine, received the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation in 2019.

Equal opportunity

  • Utilizes optometric instruments and equipment to identify patients' visual acuity, amplitude of accommodation, and refractive state and biocular coordination, at far and near points.
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