About the Role:
Lynn Community Health Center is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Optometrist to join our team. As an Optometrist, you will be responsible for providing exceptional eye care services, engages in clinical teaching and assists the clinical director in clinical operations. Your ultimate goal will be to ensure that our patients receive the highest quality eye care possible.
Qualifications:
- Current unrestricted license to practice optometry in the State of Massachusetts
- Current controlled substance certificate
- Training appropriate to practice – 5 years’ experience or Optometry Residency
- Excellent customer care skills • Knowledge of current principles, methods and procedures for the delivery of quality eye care, evaluations, diagnosis and treatment
- Knowledge of related accreditation and certification requirements
- Knowledge of relevant medications and non-pharmaceutical patient care aides
- Ability to work effectively at all levels in a collaborative team environment
- Residency training preferred
- Experience working in a community health setting preferred
- Strong ocular disease background preferred
Responsibilities:
- Provide hands-on care while achieving the highest levels of appropriateness, quality, efficiency, accessibility and responsiveness.
- Examine eyes, using observation, instruments and pharmaceutical agents, to determine visual acuity and perception, focus and coordination and to diagnose diseases and other abnormalities such as glaucoma or macular degeneration.
- Diagnose, manage, and treat conditions and diseases of the human eye and visual system.
- Examine eyes and visual system, diagnose problems or impairments, prescribe corrective lenses, and provide treatment.
- Prescribe therapeutic drugs to treat specific eye conditions.
Skills Required
- Current unrestricted license to practice optometry in Massachusetts
- Current controlled substance certificate
- 5 years' experience or Optometry Residency
- Excellent customer care skills
- Knowledge of eye care principles and procedures
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Residency training preferred
- Experience in a community health setting preferred
- Strong ocular disease background preferred
What We Do
Lynn Community Health Center is the largest provider of primary care, behavioral health, eye care, and dental services in one of the most medically underserved communities in Massachusetts. Established in 1971 as a small storefront mental health clinic, we now have more than 550 employees at multiple sites throughout the City of Lynn. We serve more than 46,000 individuals annually—40% of all Lynn residents and children under 18. Our mission is to provide comprehensive health care for everyone in our diverse community, regardless of ability to pay. Our target populations are those with the greatest barriers to care: the poor, minorities, non-English speaking, children, teens and the frail elderly. A significant percentage of our patients have behavioral health needs. To best achieve our mission, we have developed an innovative model of Integrated Care in which primary care and behavioral health providers practice together as a team, co-managing patient care. This has significantly improved access and reduced stigma for those in need of behavioral health care. Our teams are distinguished by a fierce dedication to empowering disenfranchised communities. It is an incredible learning environment for every employee, in which there exist opportunities for both providing and receiving mentoring and coaching, participating in innovative pilot projects, and the satisfaction of a job well done.
