Ophthalmic Assistant

Req ID: 214730

Location: Northern Zone, Colchester East Hants Health Centre

Department: OPNZ Ambulatory Care Colchester

Type of Employment: CasualHourly PT long-assignment (20%) x 1

CUPE Healthcare Position

Posting Closing Date: 20-Jan-26

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We're on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

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The Ophthalmic Assistant is responsible for assisting the Ophthalmologist in the clinical setting by completing the initial patient assessment and performing several technical tests. The duties will include history taking (presenting complaint/history of complaint, past ocular history, family history, systemic illness past and present, medications, allergies and drug reactions, other pertinent information for partially sighted patients), basic skills and lensometry (measuring/recording acuity, color vision testing, lensometry, A-scans, Ex ophthalmometry, Ambler grid, evaluations of pupils, estimation of anterior chamber length), patient services, basic tonometry (applanation and non-contact, complications/contraindications, altered IOP factors), instrument maintenance, general medical knowledge.

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Grade 12 or equivalent required
• Successful completion of Ophthalmic Assistant Training Program or equivalent 3rd-year completion of a Masters of Vision Science program from Dalhouse University
• Certification with the Join Commission on Allied Health Personell in Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Assistant Level, or willing to complete within 12 months of hire
• Previous related job experience is preferred.
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

• Long Assignment, Part-time position; 15 hours bi-weekly
• This position is approximately 24 months in length
• Travel is required for this position.

$ $31.15 Hourly

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.

Once You've Applied

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This is a Healthcare bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.