Optician at Soteria Eye Clinic

Soteria Eye Clinic is a private enterprise registered in Nigeria as a limited liability company to offer high quality, affordable and accessible comprehensive world class eye care services to our immediate community and environs. Our purpose is to create and deliver first class comprehensive eye care services to ALL in order to “Improve Lives through Affordable Quality Eye Care.”

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Optician

Location: Uyo, Akwa Ibom 
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Interpreting the results of eye examinations, using prescriptions written by Optometrists.
• 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.
• Interpreting the results of eye examinations, using prescriptions written by Optometrists
• Adjusting frames so they fit properly
• Preparing orders for glasses and contact lenses by checking prescriptions, lens thickness and other specifications
• Making sure that orders for glasses and contact lenses have been processed accurately.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

The Person

• 1-3 years’ cognate work experience.
• The person must possess a certification in opticianry.
• Valid license to operate as an optician.
• Excellent customer service and sales ability skills.
• Knowledge of visual defects/anomalies and lens types
• Experience using optical instrumentation
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Mathematics skills for calculating vision angles and distances.
• Precision and excellent attention to detail.

Application Closing Date
31st March, 2024.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.