Optometrist - Sam's Club

Position Summary... What you'll do...

It’s time to see optometry through a new lens. Sam's Club is revolutionizing healthcare and this your chance to be part of it.

The Sam's Club Optometrist is the clinical partner to the Optical Center Manager, and core to our company’s mission of advancing eyecare affordably for everyone.

It takes strong clinical knowledge and a heart for helping patients. You’ll be empowered to work to the top of your license, ensuring a high level of care while also tapping your entrepreneurial skills. 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 Optical Center is fast paced and equipped with the resources and technology you need to succeed. Your biggest tool? Your ability to authentically connect with our patients, as they turn to Sam's Club for trusted expertise. Working at Sam’s Club means a career without boundaries. There’s always room to grow, to take on another challenge, to roll up your sleeves and contribute, and to find professional rewards for your hard work.

Yes, we are a division of the Fortune #1 company, Walmart, Inc. But you’ll quickly find that we’re a company that wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Sam’s Club is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our clubs.

From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. Provides 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 using 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 recommending appropriate patient follow-up consulting 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 as needed to ophthalmologists and other healthcare professionals and following up with patient and other health professionals regarding any outstanding diagnostics tests or other patient information as needed Evaluates patients health condition across and within the full vision center scope of service for example visual acuity visual function and eye health keratometry refraction to ensure proper diagnosis and treatment by reviewing complete patient medical history information and performing comprehensive eye examinations examining eyes utilizing observation instruments and pharmaceutical agents to determine visual acuity and perception focus and coordination as well as identify signs of vision defects for example injury disease abnormality prescribing fitting and adjusting eyeglasses contact lenses and other vision aids suggesting ordering interpreting and assessing diagnostic tests for example glaucoma testing macular degeneration Optical Coherence Tomography OCT providing additional vision treatment for example foreign body removal as necessary developing treatment plans based on patients clinical presentation using evidence based care guidelines.

Represents 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 assisting 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 performing administrative and retail tasks for the vision center as necessary for example financial transactions patient registration retail transactions and working with internal stakeholders for example pharmacist clinics store management and external stakeholders for example external health care professionals to ensure overall coordinated and integrated patient care…