Associate Optometrist

(USA) Associate Optometrist - Walmart #2915 role at Walmart

Base pay range: $/yr - $/yr

It’s time to see optometry through a new lens. Walmart is revolutionizing healthcare and this your chance to be part of it. A Walmart Associate Optometrist is the clinical partner to the Vision Center Manager, and core to our mission of advancing eyecare affordably for everyone.

We’re looking for someone that shows autonomy and will forge the way to be a trusted part of the community, operating the business as if it were your own. The Vision Center is fast‑paced and equipped with the resources and technology you need to succeed. Your biggest tool? The ability to authentically connect with our patients, as they turn to Walmart for trusted expertise.

• Provide evidence‑based vision care to ensure patients health and wellbeing by recommending and prescribing medications and other treatment options for example red eye LASIK surgery cataract surgery
• Deliver routine vision care using evidence‑based care guidelines
• Educate patients and store associates on eye health including contact lens care disease state management and safety factors
• Consult with other health professionals to prepare patient care plans observing optometry scope of practice per state board
• Embrace new equipment technology and advanced instrumentation essential as we are integrating advanced technology such as digital phoropters EMR Maestro OCT retinal camera combo

• Doctoral degree in Optometry OD from accredited optometry school
• Licensed optometrist in good standing in state of practice
• EMR EHR experience
• Eagerness to embrace new equipment technology and advanced instrumentation
• Experience in treating and managing ocular disease

• Stays current on changes in optical procedures ideas and processes and shares the information and ideas with associates and managers
• Ensures adherence to proper policies and procedures for advising on merchandise and filling prescriptions
• Ensures optical operations are aligned with company and regulatory standards for prescriptions and claims doctor and optician certifications licensure and associate training
• Guides associates and supports managers on how to address customer and member concerns and merchandise defects
• Meets with managers doctors and associates to identify and discuss any concerns and issues related to the business and to share information related to new initiatives
• Effectively recruits doctors in partnership with Market Directors

• Creates a culture of patient care safety and accuracy
• Communicates clear expectations regarding quality of care and patient safety
• Ensures others are held accountable for following SOP and achieving expected quality and patient safety goals
• Ensures counseling providing information related to the health service provided occurs on new therapy new items and as requested by patients or required by practice or state regulations including appropriate documentation
• Analyzes and identifies areas of improvement needed and implements intervention steps to improve team knowledge and focus on patient safety and risk reduction
• Promotes reporting and transparency of errors whether actual or patient perceived
• Writes timely and effective plans of action focused on identification and correction of root cause

• Creates and fosters an environment centered on health care compliance execution
• Actively communicates trains and guides the processes for completion and followup on compliance initiatives to associates within Health and Wellness and other associates as applicable to the respective health care business
• Implements compliance initiatives and priorities and monitors compliance execution by others
• Ensures appropriate operational execution of billing procedures HIPAA compliance adherence and SOP
• Utilizes auditing processes to identify compliance issues and implement processes for improvement

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance‑based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits…