Job Description
$130,000 loan Repaymebt + Competitive Salary!
Company Description
Well established primary and specialty care private practice looking to hire a full-time optometrist to join our family in providing exceptional care to central Massachusetts. Our schedule is a mix of 20 and 30 minute comprehensive exams as well as specialty care and medical exams.
Required skills: Refraction using automated phoropter (willingness to learn), comfortable providing routine and medical care.
Qualities of Ideal Candidate:
- Interested in primary care as well as strengthening one or more of our specialty care areas (ideally interested in Vision Therapy or Sport Vision Therapy and Dry Eye)
- Full time
- Embrace our core values: Growth, Respect, Adaptability, Pride in your work, Exception care always
- Excellent communication skills, looking to build relationships with patients
About the Practice:
Our family practice has been consistently providing care for over 100 years and has been owned and operated by the Thamel family for over 60 years! Our doctors provide comprehensive primary eye care that includes a significant amount of ocular disease.
We also provide a number of subspecialties. Vision therapy has been part of the practice since the 1960s with a protocol that incorporates classic therapies as well as emerging technology. We have been providing dry eye treatment and specialty contact lenses for the past 15 years and low vision services were added in 2022. Our practice has been a proud member of Vision Source for the past 20 years, and we benefit from participating in many of the programs they have to offer. Vision Source is a community of like-minded optometrists in private practice in Massachusetts and across the nation.
Our mission is to enrich people’s lives through their eyes.
We enjoy keeping up with the newest technology and highest quality products.
Medical
- Technology we utilize includes:
- Monaco Pro Optos, MarcoTono-Ref/ODP3 autorefractor, Olleyes Virtual Visual Field, Topcon Maestro OCT, Ion Slit lamp camera, Marco automated Refraction system, RETeval, spotsee, MPOD
Dry Eye:
- Oculus Keratograph 5M, Lipiscan, Lipiflow, Lumenis M22 IPL, Equinox Red light Therapy
VT/Binocular Vision/Sports Vision Training:
- Neurolens, Righteye, Oculus VR, In office VT w/3 vision therapists
Low Vision:
- Humanware CCTVs, Eschenbach CCTV and magnifiers, Orcam
Myopia management:
- Myopia master, topographer in each office, Misight, Ortho K, Stellest
Optical:
- Optikam, in office edging, Essilor products
We are open to change and always looking for the best process or technology that allows us to provide our patients with the most efficient and comprehensive exam. We believe in asking questions, sharing ideas, and are open to supporting a new grad or established practitioner.
We believe in investing in our team through opportunities to increase knowledge base as well as build comradery. We host quarterly meetings, 30 minute Monday meeting check ins, and a daily huddle to go over the day’s patients.
Full time benefit package:
Up to $130,000 loan repayment IN ADDITION TO SALARY!
401 K with company match
50% Health insurance
Liability insurance
Long Term disability
Paid MSO/AOA Dues
MSO CE paid for (meets MA CE requirements for the year)
Donation match to charity of your choice annually up to $500
Wellness Initiative $150/year towards gym membership/spa day/yoga etc
$200 Scrub allowance yearly
To Apply:
Please email a cover letter and CV to Dr. Lauren Thamel and Brian Thamel.
lthamel@wsvisionsource.com and bthamel@wsvisionsource.com