• Application Deadline: Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: Optician


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification OND


• Experience 2 years


• Location Akwa Ibom , Lagos


• Job Field Medical / Healthcare 
  

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.


• Assist client with selecting frames.


• 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.


• May shape or reshape frames.


• As a dispensing optician you will dispense and fit spectacles and other optical aids, to both adults and children, working from the prescriptions written by optometrists and ophthalmologists

Duties

• Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centres of eyes, using measuring devices.


• Verify that finished lenses are ground to specific.


• Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames in order to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.


• Repair damaged frames.


• Interpret optical prescriptions written by optometrists or ophthalmologists.


• Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.


• Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.


• Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, then fitting the lenses into frames.


• Supervise the training of student opticians.


• Identification of lenses.


• Reading of lenses


• Take appropriate markings on the patient’s frame and fixing with axis orientation.


• Chipping of lenses.


• Fixing all type of lenses on a frame


• Frame maintenance.


• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements and Skills

• OND qualification with a minimum of 2 years experience.


• 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.


• An optician is a client-facing role. You will be dealing with the general public so it is important you have 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.