Optometrist

OPTOMETRIST – Mobile Optometry – Connecticut

Compensation: $90/hr.

Job Types: Part‑time, Contract.

Work with us to make a difference in the underserved pediatric population. Join Vision To Learn and make a direct impact in your community by helping provide vision services to school‑aged children in underserved communities who would otherwise go without access to care. Competitive pay, flexible schedule, mileage reimbursement, no federal holidays, and no nights or weekends (other than very select voluntary exceptions).

For more information about career opportunities and what we do, visit our website.

Vision To Learn is the largest school‑based vision care nonprofit in the country. VTL exists to address one basic premise – if you can’t see, you can’t learn. Vision To Learn provides eye exams and glasses to students in underserved communities at no cost to the students and their families to help them succeed in school and in life. Founded in Los Angeles in 2012, Vision To Learn has since expanded to schools across the country.

Vision care is critical as 80% of all learning during a child’s first 12 years is visual; we work to solve the problem of lack of access by partnering with school districts to provide eye exams and glasses at no charge to families. We have provided over 3.5 million vision screenings, 695,000 eye exams, and 575,000 new prescription glasses in the last decade.

We are friendly, high energy, knowledgeable, and detail‑oriented professionals committed to Vision To Learn’s mission. We approach our work with a value system of service excellence, empathy, integrity, open communication, empowerment, and an eagerness to help the communities we serve.

Vision To Learn is seeking a qualified optometrist licensed to practice in Connecticut for a part‑time mobile clinic role.

• Provide vision evaluations: check visual acuity (VA), assess binocular vision, intraocular pressure (IOP), pupils; perform a full refraction; prescribe appropriate correction; and assess ocular health.
• Prescribe vision devices and test patients on applicable equipment to determine the most suitable options; instruct patients in proper use.
• Confirm that patient diagnosis is properly documented in internal systems.

• Connecticut optometry license.
• Flexibility to commute throughout the greater Litchfield, Tolland, and Windham counties.
• Pass Department of Justice background check (Live Scan) and drug test; also required to pass child abuse history clearance, TB, and drug test.

• Flexible schedule.
• Mileage reimbursement.

• Monday to Friday.
• No nights or weekends (except very select voluntary exceptions).
• No federal holidays.

Doctorate (required).

Optometry license (required).

Part‑time, contract.

$90 per hour.

No.

Vision To Learn is committed to a diverse staff and to a culture that holds equity as a value and a priority. VTL welcomes applicants who bring a variety of perspectives, experiences, and competencies. People of color, women, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ persons are strongly encouraged to apply. VTL is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, creed, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or any illegal or prohibited factor.

Successful candidates should email a resume and cover letter.