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 Title: Optician
Location: Uyo, Akwa Ibom
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.
- 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.
Duties
- Provide expert service to customers regarding their optical needs
- Measure, fit, adapt, adjust and repair eyewear. Repair frames by replacing hinges, nose pads or temples.
- Manufacture lenses in on-site finishing lab (when possible) to measurements taken.
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specific.
- Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
- Take appropriate markings on the patient’s frame and fixing with axis orientation
- Prepare and deliver work orders to the laboratory for lens grinding and eyewear fabrication, as needed.
- Verify quality and measurements of materials returned from the lab.
- Maintain knowledge and awareness of current trends in eyewear and ophthalmic lens technology.
- Order and verify contact lens orders.
- Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centres of eyes, using measuring devices.
Qualifications and Experience
- OND, HND or Secondary School Certificate with license from the Optometrist & Dispensing Opticians Registration Board of Nigeria
- 2 years of experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired is necessary.
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.
- 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.
Application Closing Date
30th April, 2022.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
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