We’re hiring an Optician.
We are excited to expand our team and add an Optician. Read more about PrairieStar, the role, and our community here.
About the Position
Your Benefits
Comprehensive Benefit Packet includes:
• Paid Health, Dental and Life insurance
• Professional liability coverage through FTCA
• Vision Coverage
• Matching Retirement
• Extended Illness Leave
• Paid Time Off
• Bereavement Leave
• Holiday Pay
• Employee Discount
• Medical/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Health Reimbursement Account
Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance begins the first of the month following employment. All other benefits begin on day one.
What Your Role Requires
JOB TITLE: OPTICIAN
REPORTS TO: VISION OFFICE MANAGER
JOB SUMMARY:
Maintain cordial and welcoming ambiance for all who enter PSHC. Assist customers in facial and eye measurements, frame styling, adjustments and repairs, while providing spectacle wear and care education. Ensure customer satisfaction with fit and vision of new corrective lenses.
PRIMARY DUTIES:
- Educating and assisting patients with their corrective lenses and spectacle frame options that appropriately fit their medical needs and personal preferences.
- Advise patients when adjustments or repairs to spectacles are necessary.
- Operate manual lensometer to accurately read various glasses prescriptions.
- Confirm all customer information is accurate and updated during optical sale transactions.
- Verify insurance, pull authorization and file insurance claims for vision hardware.
- Maintain a clean, organized and full inventory displayed appropriately by categories.
EDUCATION:
- High school diploma or GED equivalency
- American Board of Opticianry certification preferred.
EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:
- At least one year experience in optical.
- Demonstrate initiative and function independently.
- Demonstrate attention to detail.
- Must possess basic computer skills.
- Ability to speak, read, write and comprehend instructions in English.
Equal Opportunity Employer

About PrairieStar
Who we are.
We have been referred to as the ‘Rising Star’ in medicine and we are still on the move. You will be part of a highly skilled and professional team serving this community. As a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), we meet a high standard of healthcare, and we are a Level 3 Patient-Centered Medical Home. This means you are part of a team that provides a much higher standard of quality care to our patients who often would not find healthcare anywhere else.
We serve people of all ages whether they are insured or uninsured.

About our Community


Hutchinson, KS
Welcome to Hutch
Hutchinson is home to just under 40,000 people and is the county seat of Reno County, where more than 61,000 people call home. Whether it be parks and nature trails, the HCC Sports Arena, the Historical Fox Theatre, Prairie Dunes Country Club, Dining options, the Cosmosphere, or Strataca, the Kansas Underground Salt Museum, our community is full of great opportunities for you and your family to enjoy.
If you are looking for a place where there are opportunities for you and your family, you will love Hutch.