Department Manager; Clinic

Overview

POSITION SUMMARY
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The Clinic Department Manager supports the primary functions within the clinic area of the practice. This position requires a strong leader with the ability to lead, develop, and motivate staff to ensure optimal efficiency and deliver the highest quality of patient care.

Reports To
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Practice Manager

Location
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Lind Eyecare, Kearney, Nebraska

• Demonstrate and uphold the mission statement, values, and core programs of the company
• Develop and guide staff to ensure consistency in performance and improve clinic efficiencies
• Develop and monitor the coordination of patient scheduling and patient flow throughout the office
• Maintain inventory of all medications and supplies
• Assist Practice Manager in evaluating staff performance and clinical assessments in order to provide additional training as necessary
• Develop staff in their essential responsibilities, as necessary
• Provide a safe, clean, organized and inviting environment for both patients and staff
• Perform other duties and assume various responsibilities as determined by the office manager and doctor(s)

• High school graduate, or equivalent
• Previous experience in fields of ophthalmology or optometry is preferred
• Previous experience in leadership/management is preferred

• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Decisive leadership with above average judgment
• Detail oriented, self-starter, with strong organizational skills
• Able to effectively sustain multiple, simultaneous tasks
• Ability to lead, motivate, and promote a team environment
• Ability to build and maintain good rapport with the doctors, staff and patients, and handle situations with confidence, tact, and resourcefulness
• Proactive, adaptable, with the ability to work under pressure to accomplish projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment

• Standing for sustained periods of time.
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
• Physical requirements:
  
  Light work.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform each activity.

• Staff members are required to meet training expectations within the initial 90-day probationary period.
• Obtaining certification in optometric field is encouraged. The company will aid all employees eligible for the Employee Career Development Program.