Assistant Professor​/Clinic Care Lead- IL- Chicago College of Optometry

Job Category: Faculty

Requisition Number: CLINI
004557

• Posted :
  October 16, 2026
• Full-Time

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• Pay or shift range: $127,000 USD to $129,000 USD
  The estimated range is the budgeted amount for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications and other job-related reasons.

The Clinic Care Lead provides clinical and operational leadership for an assigned clinic section, ensuring high-quality patient care, compliance with current national guidelines and documentation requirements, and ongoing quality assurance. The role also supervises assigned faculty and staff, coordinating workloads, clinic coverage, time off requests, and supporting the annual performance review process.

Duties and Responsibilities of the Clinical Lead, Contact Lens and Dry Eye:

• Responsible for daily operations of the contact lens and dry eye clinics, including ordering specialized supplies to ensure that the clinic is properly stocked for optimal care, managing contact lens and dry eye inventory and ensuring that equipment is regularly serviced and in good working order.
• Responsible for reviewing applications for privileging from the faculty and providing recommendations to the Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs on such requests.
• Responsible for annual identification of new equipment needs for the capital budget.
• Responsible for reviewing the department fee schedule as needed.
• Responsible for identifying ways to increase patient volume in the clinics. This includes working with marketing or suggesting changes to marketing strategies, developing new services, community outreach, etc.
• Oversee the quality of student education in their section. The Clinical Lead will work closely with the Assistant Director of Clinical Rotations to schedule studentsfor this patient care experience, identify students whoare having difficulty and take primary responsibility for remediation efforts, handle all student related issues related to this rotation, ensure that grades for students are posted in a timely fashion. The Clinical Lead will review student comments about the rotation and preceptors regularly, making needing adjustments to the rotation, annually update rotation objectives.
• Oversee the quality of patient care in their clinical section, including making sure faculty are using the most current national guidelines of care, are compliant with all documentation requirements of Medicare and the Eye Institute, and conducting regular quality assurance assessments to aid in preparation of the quarterly quality assurance reports.
• Supervise faculty and staff in the clinic section, including assignment of workloads, assisting with time off requests and needed clinic coverage, and aiding in annual review processes. Typically, this may include approximately 3 faculty members and one optical technician.
• Direct faculty and staff development and training in this specialty area.
• Responsible for the orientation of faculty and students to this specialty area, including orientation packets for rotation students and policy manuals as needed.
• Handle patient complaints in the specialty area.
• Take leadership in developing templates for electronic medical records, or in training faculty on implementing new software.
• Participate as a member of the leadership team for the Eye Institute, and as a member of the Clinic Administrative Team to advise the Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs and the Assistant Director of Clinic Operations.
• Assist with budget planning and management of this specialty area.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: Candidates must possess a Doctor of Optometry degree from an…