Optometrist - Sam's; White Oaks Dr, Springfield, IL

Salary

Based on experience.

The annual salary range for this position is $ - $. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location).

Full-time.

Provides evidence‑based vision care to ensure patients’ health and wellbeing by recommending and prescribing medications and other treatment options. Examples include red eye, LASIK surgery, and cataract surgery. We adhere to evidence‑based care guidelines, delivering routine vision care, educating patients and store associates on eye health including contact lens care, disease state management, and safety factors. We recommend appropriate patient follow‑up and consult with other health professionals to prepare and coordinate patient care plans in accordance with optometry scope of practice per state board, providing patients with appropriate referrals to ophthalmologists and other healthcare professionals.

We follow up with patients and other health professionals regarding any outstanding diagnostic tests or other patient information as needed. We evaluate patients’ health condition across and within the full vision center scope of service, including visual acuity, visual function, and eye health, keratometry, refraction to ensure proper diagnosis and treatment. We review complete patient medical history information and perform comprehensive eye examinations, examining eyes utilizing observation instruments and pharmaceutical agents to determine visual acuity, perception, focus, and coordination as well as identify signs of vision defects, injury, disease, or abnormality.

We prescribe, fit, and adjust eyeglasses, contact lenses, and other vision aids, suggest ordering, interpret, and assess diagnostic tests including glaucoma testing and macular degeneration Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and provide additional vision treatment such as foreign body removal as necessary. We develop treatment plans based on patients’ clinical presentation using evidence‑based care guidelines. We represent the company in vision care and patient engagement by delivering exceptional customer service through all patient interactions, maintaining and updating patient information in vision center systems, for example BOSS, in a timely, accurate, and confidential manner.

We assist vision center staff, for example opticians, on best practices and procedures, ensuring adherence to state, local, and federal healthcare regulations and Walmart vision center guidelines. We perform administrative and retail tasks for the vision center as necessary, for example financial transactions, patient registration, retail transactions, and working with internal stakeholders such as pharmacist clinics, store management and external stakeholders such as external health care professionals to ensure overall coordinated and integrated patient care experience and high quality customer service.

We provide overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs, developing, communicating, building support for and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices, analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans, determining and supporting resource requirements, evaluating operational processes, measuring outcomes to ensure desired results, identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities, promoting a customer environment, showcasing adaptability, and sponsoring continuous learning.

We develop and implement strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps, recruiting, selecting, and developing talent, supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning, and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent. We cultivate an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices, developing consequences for violations or noncompliance, and supporting the Open Door Policy.

We develop and leverage internal and external…