Career Opportunities at Agape Center
Office Assistant
Purpose: To guide the patient through their office visit from pretesting to frame or contact lens selecting to checkout.
For this position you will need to be highly responsible, mature, conscientious, and duty-oriented. You also must be very attentive to detail and show good follow-through. Planning well is another desirable trait as is being notably thorough and careful in your work. Emotionally you should be very “steady” and even-keeled, predictable, and generally upbeat and optimistic. Computer experience is a definite plus.
This position requires being practical, pragmatic, and a “bottom-line” type that focuses on solutions to problems rather than abstraction, theory, or philosophy. You should be comfortable with routine and don’t require a lot of change and variability in your work life. Experience in this field is not mandatory but it is preferred.
Finally, you should take a generally positive, accepting view of other people, giving others the benefit of the doubt.
This position, at the minimum, will require working hours from 1:30pm until 6:30pm, Monday through Friday (except Wednesday). This could also be a full time position (9:30am-6:30pm Monday through Friday) depending on your experience, qualifications and needs.
Primary Duties
Greet patients warmly
Guide patient smoothly through the office
Patient pretesting and history taking
Keep Doctor busy
Communicate with other staff members in order to route patients effectively
Measure patients current prescription glasses/contact lenses and record in chart
Secondary Duties
Dispense and adjust/repair glasses
Deliver contact lenses
Answer phones and schedule patients
File charts
Carry out therapy regimenKey Traits Summary
Conscientious, responsible, duty-oriented, rule-compliant, versus rule-resistant, expedient, resistant to authority.
Detail-oriented, organized, planner, versus disorganized, messy.
Even-keeled, predictable, resilient, versus moody, emotionally unstable.
Pragmatic, concrete, results-oriented, versus abstract, theoretical, philosophical.
Conservative, prefers routine, versus radical, experimenting.
Accepting, trusting, sees the positive in others, versus skeptical, cynical, suspicious.
If these traits describe you,
Please fax your resume' to 805-373-9843
Employee Benefits at the Agape Center - we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage candidates who will contribute to the cultural diversity of our office to apply.
Retirement Plan - provided at no cost to you - money contributed by the Agape Center can be invested in any way you desire; further information is available through Kenneth D. Gross, EA, CFP at Strategic Financial (805 494 1825 or ken.gross@get.net)
Bonus - on occasion, qualifying employees may be awarded a discretionary bonus. Bonuses are based upon such factors as office performance and individual merit, and are awarded at the sole discretion of the Agape Center.
Vacation - full time employees accrue vacation depending on length of employment. For the first two years, one week of vacation is accrued. Years three through five accrue two weeks of vacation and six years and beyond accrues 3 weeks of vacation.
Paid Holidays - full time employees are paid for New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Personal Holiday - as a full-time employee, you receive annually one personal paid holiday. Your personal paid holiday may be used as you wish to observe a religious holiday, your birthday, or to take care of a personal commitment.
Sick Leave - full-time employees accrue sick leave on a monthly basis at a rate of one-half day for each month of service, up to a total of six days per year.
Vision Plan - provided at no cost to you - includes unlimited examinations, glasses/contact lenses (up to $150 wholesale cost per year) and therapy as needed. Your immediate family (spouse, children living at home and parents) will be extended one free exam per year and a 20% courtesy on all materials and supplies.
Education - our goal is to provide the highest quality of comprehensive care. To that end, we encourage you to attend educational programs to strive to expand your knowledge base. We will often schedule in-house training meetings, and send staff to various outside training programs. Prior approval from James B. Mayer, O.D. is required for all courses. Where attendance is approved, or if you are being required to attend a course, we will pay for your registration fees and any reasonable expenses (they must be documented with receipts). If the course is not local, you may be reimbursed for gas ($0.30 per mile) and lodging on a per case basis. If the education is scheduled during your normal work time, normal pay will apply. If the outside education is not during normal work time, you will not be paid, except for registration, travel, etc.
Social Security/Medicare - all employees are covered under the provisions of the federal social security (F.I.C.A.) and Medicare laws. The amount of deduction from your wages for social security taxes is matched by our office (7.65% of your wage) in accordance with current law.
Federal and State Unemployment Insurance - all employees are covered under this program. The office pays 5.8% of your wage to pay for it.
Worker's Compensation - all employees are covered for work related injuries from the first moment on the job. This benefit is provided at no cost to the employee. The office pays this premium, which is 6.4% of your wage. Injuries must be reported within 24 hours of the injury. PLEASE SEEK TREATMENT AT THE THOUSAND OAKS URGENT CARE (620 E Janss Road - 805 495-6866) BEFORE USING LOS ROBLES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER.
