Refractionist - Health
Job Description
Title: Refractionist - Health
Company Name: Friendship
Vacancy: 3
Age: Na
Job Location: Bogura, Gaibandha, Kurigram
Salary: Negotiable
Experience:
Published: 2025-11-18
Application Deadline: 2025-11-24
Education:
- Diploma
- Diploma in Refraction & Dispensing, Optometry
Requirements:
Skills Required:
Additional Requirements:
Skill and Competencies:
Experience Requirements:
- Minimum 2 years of experience in school-based or community eye screening projects. Preference for prior NGO or rural outreach experience.
Additional Requirements:
- Familiarity with Bangladesh National Eye Care Program guidelines
- Understanding of pediatric eye care practices
- Proficiency in vision screening tools
- Willingness to travel to remote riverine or char areas
Responsibilities & Context:
Performance Expectations:
- Deliver consistent high-quality refraction services across field camps
- Adapt screening approach to rural school settings and engage teachers as facilitators
- Minimize errors in prescription by cross-verifying with the standard protocol
- Handle fragile optical equipment with care
- Document all client data accurately for program review
- Coordinate with local opticians and lens providers to ensure timely delivery
Responsible for:
- Conducting vision screening of primary school students
- Using vision charts (Snellen/E-Chart) and handheld autorefractors as appropriate
- Prescribing spectacles for refractive error correction based on test results
- Referring complex cases (e.g., amblyopia, squint, cataract) to the base hospital
Supervision and Coordination:
- Supervise Community Health Volunteers/Field Coordinators during school camps
- Report screening data weekly to the Eye Health Coordinator
- Coordinate logistics and screening calendar with academic authorities
Activities:
- Daily screenings during mobile eye camps as per the school calendar
- Maintain child-friendly, respectful communication
- Record findings, prescriptions, referrals, and lens orders on project MIS
- Participate in feedback sessions and technical refreshers
- Daily screenings during mobile eye camps as per the school calendar
- Maintain child-friendly, respectful communication
- Record findings, prescriptions, referrals, and lens orders on project MIS
- Participate in feedback sessions and technical refreshers.
Job Other Benifits:
Employment Status: Contractual
Job Work Place:
Company Information:
Gender: Male and Female can apply
Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job
Category: NGO/Development
