Optometrist

Job Description

Full-time Associate Optometrist (with partnership opportunity!) - Moose Jaw, Sask

Our growing office needs another full-time optometrist, with the potential of future partnership for interested candidates. This is an exceptional opportunity to practice full-scope optometry while maintaining a great work-life balance! The “notorious” city is a popular tourist destination, offering all the amenities of a larger city but with a hometown feel.

Our office has provided over 40 years of full-scope, independent eye care! We serve Moose Jaw's wide-ranging population of ~35,000 plus multiple smaller communities in the area, allowing you to practice to full scope. We provide comprehensive eye exams to all ages with an emphasis on prevention of ocular disease, and we work closely with our two local ophthalmologists as well as co-manage with Saskatchewan-based laser surgery centers.

We also provide:

-biannual remote eye care to 5+ different First Nations Communities

-home visits within Moose Jaw and to Central Butte Care Home

-Lantern colour vision testing for CN and CP Rail

-specialty exams as requested – none of our docs are currently seeing patients for Binocular Vision exams, Scleral/RGP CL fits, or Low Vision evals, but we are very open to someone interested in specializing in any of these areas!

Our office features:

-four full exam lanes & additional wheelchair lane

-two full pre-test rooms with autoR/K and NCT/pachymetry

-separate contact lens training room with pre-test (autoR/K and NCT)

-California Optomap, Nidek camera fundus photography, Heidelberg Spectralis OCT

-Octopus visual field machine and FDT visual screener

-hand-held Keeler slit lamp, Tonopen & iCare tonometers, Bleph-Ex treatment apparatus

-wonderful staff of optometric assistants, ophthalmic dispensers, and opticians!

-Optosys EMR system as part of OSI buying group

-over 1000 frames in our dispensary, great relationship with all major contact lens companies, dozens of other products listed on our website

Hours & Salary:

-competitive salary with guaranteed daily minimum and percentage of gross revenue

-yearly bonus based on total gross revenue

-guaranteed full schedule, with the opportunity to work as much or as little as you’d like!

-NO weekend or late evening hours (we’re open MTWF from 8:30-5:00 and Th from 10:00-6:30) 

-clinical support available from the three other doctors in the office

-opportunity for partnership for interested candidates!

Benefits & Attractions of Moose Jaw:

-low cost of living: 2-bedroom apartment rents for ~$1000/month, average house price ~$230k

-high quality of life: ~15-minute drive anywhere in the city, no one-way streets, friendly community!

-sports: MJ Event Center is home to the AAA Warriors, Ross Wells Park is home to the Western MBL Miller Express

-recreation: Yara & Kinsman recreational complexes, downtown Crescent Park and beautiful Wakomow Valley, Buffalo Pound Provincial Park is 30 mins away

-culture: Mae Wilson Theatre, Tunnels of Moose Jaw tours, Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village, Western Development Museum, Snowbirds Air Shows, MJ Event Centre has hosted Scotties Tournament of Hearts and top-performing artists like Billy Talent & Carrie Underwood

-education: over a dozen public & Catholic elementary & high schools, including Ecole Ducharme francophone school; nearby post-secondary: Saskatchewan Polytech in Moose Jaw, Briercrest Seminary is 30 mins away, University of Regina is 45 mins away, University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon is 2.5 hours away