Job Description
Institution: National University Hospital
1. Job PurposeAn Orthoptist is responsible to provide personalized, specialized and cost-effective care to the patients in accordance to established hospital policies and procedures, standards of orthoptic care and practices.
2. Duties and Responsibilities 2.1 Primary Responsibilities and Duties (80%)- To perform orthoptic assessment of patients with ocular motility disorders.
- To perform the prism cover test for the measurement of strabismus.
- To conduct binocular visual function assessment (including tests of stereopsis, field of binocular single vision, Hess chart, synoptophore).
- To conduct visual assessment for a non-verbal child.
- To provide patient education of health, safety and infection control.
- To prescribe and manage low vision.