Optical Dispenser

Job Summary: Under limited supervision, measures pupil distance and bridgewidth, adjusts eyeglass frames and assist patients in selecting optical items to conform with corresponding optical prescriptions and established procedures.

Essential Responsibilities: * Assists patient with optical selections.

* Recommends and displays various designs, colors, and shapes of eyeglass frames available and compatible to patients prescription and facial features.

* Quotes prices from fee schedules.

* Neutralizes spectacles with lensometer and performs measurements with pupilometer, distometer, and other progressive optical measuring devices.

* Records frame, lens specification and other related items such as non-prescribed dark glasses and cleaning fluids.

* Examines glasses received from laboratory to insure conformority with prescription.

* Verifies prescription with lensometer.

* Modifies lenses to fit frames and adjusts frames to fit patients facial features with hand tools and related equipment as required.

* Repairs and adjusts lens frames as requested by patients using standard hand tools and related equipment.

* Orders or fabricates lost pair of eyeglasses to include using automatic lens edging unit, hand edger, lens layout maker, and lens tinting unit.

* Performs other duties as required such as ordering optical supplies, assisting with periodic inventories, responding to complaints regarding lens and frame fit.

Equipment Utilized: Lens analyzer, lensometer, distometer, pupilometer, hand edger, automatic edger, pattern maker, layout marker, optical hand tools used to adjust metal and plastic frames.

* Assume other activities and responsibilities from time to time as directed.

* Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities and applicable state, federal and local laws.