Optometrist

Employment Information

  • Post ID: 358792908
  • Open Date: January 29, 2025
  • Close Date: March 20, 2025
  • Organization: Doctors Vision Centre Stonewall
  • Sector: Healthcare & Social Workers
  • Business Location:Swan River, Manitoba, Canada
  • Total Views: 200
  • Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
  • Last Updated: 21 hours ago
  • Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/manitoba/swan-river/358792908/optometrist/
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Job Details

  • Experience: Not mandatory
  • Job Vacancies: 1
  • Compensation: $10,000 to $15,000 per month (To be negotiated) / 40 hours per week
  • Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
  • Apply by: email to [email protected]
  • Education: Postgraduate degree

Job Description

Tasks

  • Advise on use and care of contact lenses
  • Examine patients’ eyes, conduct tests and use specialized instruments to determine visual efficiency
  • Prescribe eyeglasses, contact lenses and other vision aids to correct patients’ vision
  • Prescribe treatment to conserve, improve and correct vision and other ocular disorders
  • Counsel patients on visual hygiene, lighting arrangements, working distances and safety factors
  • Supervise staff
  • Refer patients to ophthalmologists or other physicians and surgeons when ocular or other diseases are found

Experience and specialization

Area of specialization

  • Obtain specifications for eyeglasses or contact lenses and fit clients with prescription eyeglasses or contact lenses

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities
  • Membership in the Canadian Association of Optometrists (CAO)

Benefits

Health benefits

  • Vision care benefits

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Learning/training paid by employer
  • On-site housing options
  • Variable or compressed work week