Optometry Manager

Description

Plans, coordinates and supervises the Eye Care Program including providing direct optometric care to students, faculty, staff and eligible dependents. Analyzes findings of tests and examinations, and diagnoses condition. Prescribes corrective procedures to conserve, improve, or correct vision through the use of lenses, prisms, vision therapy and visual training. Recommends and implements operational policies and procedures. Participates in quality assessment and health education programs. Doctor of optometry degree is necessary. Licensure to practice Optometry is necessary. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.