HEALTH TECHNICIAN (OPTOMETRY)

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-06 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: - Experience receiving, editing, and processing optical ordering forms for military personnel authorized medical and optical services - Experience in interpreting an optical prescription and knowledge of associated terms of optometry - Experience with ordering, fitting, adjusting, dispensing, and repairing glasses for patients eligible for prescription eyewear - Experience maintaining a medical database using gained OJT and/or formal training Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=GS-TECH-NOTE Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will dispense, adjust, fit and repair eyeglasses to resolve optical and visual complaints.,You will screen/monitor incoming prescription orders for appropriate originators,You will process all external department communications to include all prescription orders, voicemails and email messages.,You will operate testing equipment in the Optometry department to complete assignments.