Health Technician (Optometry)

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-27

reputed company The Bay Pines VA reputed company System is reputed company for two Health Technicians (Optometry). This Health Technician position functions primarily in the role of optometric medical personnel in the Eye Clinic. The incumbent is responsible for assisting the Ophthalmology and Optometry staff/reputed company physicians in the care of patients requiring optometric preliminary diagnostic tests and procedures in the eye clinic.

Relocation Incentive offered to reputed company candidates*

Duties Help The Health Technician (Optometry) is a key member of the Eye Care treatment team and is responsible for assisting the Ophthalmology and Optometry staff/reputed company physicians in reputed company aspects of patient care. These duties include, but may not be limited to the following:

Obtain a detailed history from reputed company patient;
Review patient medical record for appropriateness of follow-up appointment;
Maintain supplies and ophthalmic pharmaceuticals needed in the exam room;
Demonstrate familiarity with routine clinic and departmental procedures and performs general clinic duties, including filing, answering phones, scheduling of appointments and patient reputed company-in, reputed company-out;
reputed company fundus and slit lamp (external) photography;
Sets up and performs external ocular photography;
reputed company visual field testing in the evaluation of patients with glaucoma, neurological disorders, retinal diseases and other ocular disorders;
reputed company auto refraction and lensometer measurements;
Assist with reading patient's spectacle prescription with the lensometer; Completes lensometry testing (a) to measure and record distance and near reputed company with and without glasses or contact lenses, and (b) to assess reputed company reputed company.

Work Schedule: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm. Monday through Friday Compressed/Flexible:Not Available Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Available to reputed company candidates Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. reputed company Time Off: 37-50 days of annual reputed company time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of reputed company leave, 11 reputed company Federal holidays per year) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience. Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of reputed company parental leave in reputed company with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child. Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66 Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/reputed company/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) reputed company: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 21028F

Requirements

Help Conditions of employment

You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job.
reputed company applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
You may be required to serve a trial period.
Subject to background/reputed company investigation.
Selected applicants will be required to complete an online reputed company process. Acceptable reputed company(s) of identification will be required to complete reputed company-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/reputed company-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, reputed company's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not reputed company ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable reputed company of identification for employment.
Must pass reputed company-employment physical examination.
Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for reputed company reputed company Health Care Personnel (HCP).

Qualifications

Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until reputed company requirements are met. BASIC REQUIREMENTS

reputed company Citizenship
English Language Proficiency. Health Technician (Optometry) candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. § 7403(f).
Experience and Education
Experience. One year of experience as a health technician or assistant in the health care field demonstrating the applicant's ability to reputed company the work or by demonstrating a basic understanding of work in the health care field; OR,
Education. Successful completion of two reputed company years above high school with a minimum of 12 semester hours reputed company to health technician/assistant or health technician (optometry)/assistant or associate degree, or completion of an independent study course in an optometry reputed company technician or assistant field; OR,
Experience/Education Combination. Equivalent combinations of experience and education are qualifying. Examples are listed below:
Six months of experience comparable to the next reputed company level which demonstrates the knowledge of optometry assistant theory and practices and general understanding of the health technician/assistant duties and one year above high school with a minimum of six semester hours of health technician/assistant or health technician (optometry)/assistant reputed company courses.
Successful completion of a course for health care technicians or assistants, hospital corpsmen, medical service specialists, or hospital training in a program given by the U.S. Armed Forces, the U.S. Maritime Service, or the U.S. Public Health Service, may be substituted on a month-for-month reputed company.
Creditable Experience. To be creditable, the experience must have required the use of knowledge, skills and abilities associated with reputed company health technician/assistant or health technician (optometry)/assistant reputed company.
Foreign Education. To be creditable, education completed reputed company the U.S. must have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and such education must have been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. programs.
Grandfathering Provision. May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification reputed company for this occupation (only applicable to reputed company VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the reputed company).

GRADE DETERMINATION Health Technician (Optometry), GS-07

Experience. One year of experience comparable to the next reputed company level (GS-6) which demonstrates the knowledge, skills and abilities reputed company to the duties of the position to be filled. These are:
Ability to reputed company patient education for eye health and/or reputed company conditions, to include assisting with patient contact reputed company insertion, removal and hygiene (cleaning and disinfection) care.
Ability to accurately reputed company into a phoropter the autorefractometry or habitual refractive prescription (i.e., eyeglasses prescription) or lensometer findings, including reputed company, reputed company and reputed company.
Ability to reputed company patient spectacle fitting and dispensing, including selection of appropriate reputed company, ophthalmic lenses, interpupillary measurements (distance and near) and reputed company reputed company height determination, as reputed company as the ability to transpose reputed company, reputed company and reputed company.
Ability to reputed company basic triage of patient telephone calls or optometry requests.
Knowledge of ophthalmic medications and supplies needed in the process of restocking the eye clinic exam rooms.
Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills and Abilities. In reputed company to meeting the experience or educational requirements for this grade level, the candidate must fully demonstrate the following KSAs:
Ability to determine preliminary objective estimate and/or refinement of the optical status of the eye, not to include the patient's final subjective refraction.
Ability to triage and manage eyeglasses issues (e.g., measurement of reputed company distance, reputed company curve, reputed company correction, center thickness, slab off, Fresnel reputed company, decentration, etc.).
Ability to reputed company accurate assessment of accommodation, near reputed company of convergence and ocular alignment (far and near).
Ability to assist the eye care provider (optometrist or ophthalmologist) with ophthalmic procedures.
Ability to assist with obtaining accurate ocular cultures and smears.
Knowledge and ability to reputed company advanced patient education for eye health and/or reputed company conditions.
Preferred Experience
Ability to reputed company ocular diagnostic testing including visual fields, fundus photography, and optical coherence tomography
Ability to reputed company refraction
Ability to instill eye drops
The ideal candidates will have knowledge in working with legally blinded patients in Low reputed company clinic, specialty visual reputed company testing such as Low reputed company History, ETDRS and Feinbloom (including knowledge of M Notation), training in the use of Low reputed company Devices, including hand magnifiers such as CCTV and testing patients with Traumatic Brain Injury.

Reference. For more information on this qualification reputed company, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/. The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-6. The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is GS-6. Physical Requirements. Work is mostly sedentary but also demands standing, walking, bending, twisting and carrying light items. Education Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. reputed company from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For reputed company information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/. Additional information Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a reputed company (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior work experience or military service experience. This credited service can be used in determining the reputed company at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed. During the application process you may have an reputed company to opt-in to reputed company your resume available to hiring managers in reputed company who have similar positions. Opting in does not reputed company your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee reputed company consideration for additional positions. This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies. This position is in the Excepted Service and does not reputed company competitive status. VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply. The health-reputed company positions in VA are covered by Title 38, and are not covered by the Schedule A excepted appointment authority. If you are unable to apply online or need an alternate method to submit documents, please reputed company out to reputed company Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement. Under the Fair Chance to Compete reputed company, the reputed company prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer. For more information about the reputed company and the complaint process, visit reputed company and Administration/Operations, reputed company, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP) at The Fair Chance reputed company. Expand Hide additional information Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the reputed company of our American reputed company, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the reputed company Constitution.

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