optician
ISCO: 3254. Skills: 61. Essential: 53.
Essential skills
- accept own accountability
- achieve sales targets
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- adjust eyeglasses
- advise customers on eyewear maintenance
- advise on contact lense maintenance
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply numeracy skills
- apply organisational techniques
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with optical prescriptions
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- cut lenses for eyeglasses
- deal with emergency care situations
- dispense corrective lenses
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure client orientation
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- eye protection regulations
- fit low vision aids
- follow clinical guidelines
- handle contact lenses
- have computer literacy
- health care legislation
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- maintain records of clients' prescriptions
- maintain relationship with customers
- maintain relationship with suppliers
- make referrals to ophthalmology
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage staff
- monitor stock level
- operate cash register
- operate optical measuring equipment
- optical glass characteristics
- optical instruments
- perform frames' repairs
- prepare optical laboratory activities
- process payments
- promote inclusion
- quality standards of ophthalmic equipment
- repair lenses
- respond to changing situations in health care
- sell optical products
- use lensometer
- use ophthalmic instruments
- verify lenses compliance
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Supporting skills
- advise customers on optical instruments maintenance
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- provide health education
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care