Optometric Care Associates, a doctor-owned, multi-location, full-scope practice located in San Luis Obispo County, California is offering a new position opportunity for a full-time associate doctor. We provide community based primary eye care including vision exams for all ages and treat ocular conditions to the full extent of our license.  
 
Our offices are located in beautiful San Luis Obispo County with its wonderful Mediterranean weather, Pacific Ocean beaches, and inland lakes. SLO has been repeatedly voted “Happiest Place in the USA” and is home to Cal Poly University and Cuesta College. Tourist Destination, Paso Robles was elected as the “Best Winery Area” in the Times with world-class culinary and entertainment options. The Central Coast is equal distance to LA, San Francisco, and the Sierra Mountains. People flock here to beach walk and surf at Pismo, ocean kayak at Morro Bay, bike the roads and trails of Montana de Oro, travel Highway 1 to hike the canyons of Big Sur, and ATV the beach dunes of Oceano. With large Farm to Table programs and abundant produce and fruits the large weekly farmer markets are community events, this is a fresh food paradise. Other attractions are Hearst Castle tours and visiting the 17,000 Elephant Seals at the Piedras Blancas Rookery. Imagine lunch breaks on an isolated beach or viewing otters and pelicans at the back bay! 
 
General Responsibilities
· Patient Care: Provides exceptional patient care by evaluating and testing patients’ condition following the highest current medical standards.
· Practice Growth: Actively participate in practice growth strategies including soliciting patient reviews, encouraging patient referrals, and providing exceptional customer service with each encounter.
· Participate in the practice’s community outreach and service those in need. 
· Medical Standards: Ensures appropriate medical quality standards in all aspects of practice services provided to the patient.
· Referral Relations: Work with surgical consultants to develop and maintain positive and loyal relationships among our specialists’ network. Receive appropriate training and coordination assistance for seamless patient care in-between offices.
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Preferred Skills: Excellent patient relations and communication skills
· Outstanding employee relations skills showing empathy and kindness
· Sound clinical judgment
· Bilingual - Spanish preferred but not required
· Able to effectively sustain multiple simultaneous tasks.
· Attentive to detail and accurate medical recordkeeping 
· Desire for self-improvement, to pursue further education, fellowships, and research. 
 
About Optometric Care Associates
We are the textbook example of a well-managed, patient-centric, independent private practice. We were founded in 1978, survived, and thrived in a very competitive market area by community outreach and a high level of patient satisfaction and loyalty. In a time of consolidation, we are the practice other local ODs want to join. Our doctors are early adopters to new clinical and practice management techniques with instrumentation including Electronic Health Records, On-line appointments and web presence, On-Site optical fabrication, OCT, and OPTOS. We believe in continual learning and improvement in our practice of vision care. We take pride in excellent primary care and remember our roots in providing the best refractive care possible with every available optical option in glasses and contact lenses. 
 
We are proud of our strong network of ocular specialists and co-manage and consult almost daily with OMDs in the retina, cataract extraction, ocular plastics, Lasik, cornea, and pediatrics. Our founding OD also has a stand-alone Vision therapy Office that treats binocular dysfunctions, concussion, Neuro-Optometry, and Sports Vision. Our research has been presented at the AAO, COVD, NORA, and recently at the Stanford Concussion Summit and the Society of Brain Mapping Technology (SBMT).
 
Our practice has a large community service footprint. Our out-reach includes coordination of SLOLIONSEYES.org, a countywide school vision screening program that along with our First5 preschool screening program provides an MCT diagnostic exam for every child in our county at over 75 locations. We also provide service and advocacy for at-risk youth, the homeless, the incarcerated, and brain-injured with training programs for parents, school nurses, and social workers. We have supported/initiated many of these community programs since the 1980s and they an integral part of our practice identity. 
 
We cordially invite interested doctors to visit and see for themselves this opportunity!
Connect with Diana Alviso at (805) 238-1001 or email at ocapaso1@gmail.com