Pediatric Optometrist needed in Oakland, CA

Job description

Specialty: Pediatric Optometrist
Start Date: 8/1/26
Contract Length: 26 Weeks (6 months)
Shift Details: 5x8 Monday – Friday
Schedule: 8a-5p
Work Details:
• Support staff: techs, ophthalmologists, optometrists
• Amount of coverage needed per month: full-time, 5 shifts/week
• Patients per day: 12-14 patients per day, 30 min appts, 1st patient at 8a and last is 4:30 p, 30 min appts
• Patient population/age: mostly all pediatrics; they see some adults with developmental delays and double vision.
• Department description: sees bread and high-acuity peds optometry patients; facility has all imaging devices needed, techs are there to run diagnostic imaging. Optometrists are responsible for workups and patient care. Department sees patients of all cognitive abilities, with a lot of patients on the spectrum. A lot of patients are co-managed by other peds specialties at the facility, like those with seizures and facial abnormalities.
• EMR: Epic
• Special procedures: prefer locums to do contact lens fitting and/or complex contact lens fitting for peds
• Skills required: Must have experience working with complex pediatric populations; experience with pediatric optometry and strabismus/binocular vision exams
Practice Setting:
• Outpatient
• Hospital
Requirements:
• Education requirements: Doctor of Optometry degree (OD), residency in pediatric optometry highly preferred. Provider MUST have at least 3 years' experience working with pediatric populations in a medical center setting. Extensive experience working with ped population
• License required: CA license required
• Certifications required: BLS
• Minimum experience required: Open to different levels of exp if they have a peds residency. If no peds residency, + 3 years of peds pop exp in a medical center.

Credentialing Timeframe: 60-90 days

• August start
• 6 month contract
• CA license