Job Description
Skills and Abilities
Tasks
- Examine patients' eyes, conduct tests and use specialized instruments to determine visual efficiency
- Prescribe eyeglasses, contact lenses and other vision aids to correct patients' vision
- Prescribe treatment to conserve, improve and correct vision and other ocular disorders
- Refer patients to ophthalmologists or other physicians and surgeons when ocular or other diseases are found
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities
- Membership in the Canadian Association of Optometrists (CAO)
Screening questions
- Are you authorized to work in Canada?
- Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?
Employment terms options
- Day