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Optometrist (Clinical) – GS‑0662‑12 – Full Time, Fort Sill, OK.

Fort Sill is a United States post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles southwest of Oklahoma City and 50 miles north of Wichita Falls, Texas.

Working for the Department of Defense offers competitive compensation, paid time off, medical benefits, student loan repayment, and a retirement package with Thrift Savings Plan and employer matching contributions.

• Provide a variety of optometric services including examination, diagnosis, management, and treatment of eye and visual problems and ocular diseases with advanced instrumentation and therapeutic/diagnostic pharmaceutical drugs.
• Perform comprehensive and limited visual and ocular examinations on all patient types, including trainees, pediatric, adult, geriatric, learning disability, low‑vision, contact‑lens, and occupational patients, ensuring appropriate diagnosis, management, and treatment within scope of practice.
• Diagnose and treat visual anomalies and pathologic conditions of the ocular adnexa and eye, performing a wide range of tests such as refractometry, retinoscopy, visual fields, color perception, binocular vision, depth perception, intraocular tension, ductions, versions, accommodation, phorias, dynamic retinoscopy, biomicroscopy, gonioscopy, ophthalmoscopy, pachymetry, ultrasound, pupillary reflexes, exophthalmometry, and other advanced diagnostics.
• Perform medical profiling for basic trainees and other service members, determining fitness for induction, retention, special military training, and/or duty.
• Evaluate and perform eye‑related tests for all types of physical examinations, including DODMERB physicals, MEPS, retirement, flight, and airborne physicals.
• Independently manage and treat conditions within the optometric scope of practice, including prescribing therapeutic drugs.
• Provide special and advanced optometric evaluation, management, and treatment, including contact lenses, visual fields, low‑vision services, vision training, ocular photography, laser and microwave/radio‑frequency work, flight physical evaluation, and shooting vision.
• Perform related administrative duties: monitor maintenance of ophthalmic equipment and instruments; act as Chief of the Optometry Service or Clinic in the absence of other military optometrists; participate in the Optometry Quality Improvement Program; manage data and information related to the Optometry Service mission, writing memorandums, letters, and reports.

• Appointment subject to a suitability or fitness determination after a completed background investigation.
• Position is a Testing Designated Position; pre‑employment screening and random drug testing required.
• Pre‑placement medical examination required.
• Consent to seasonal influenza vaccination or recognized exemption required.
• Immunization screening required; Hepatitis B immunization required for all direct patient contact positions.
• Must obtain and maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; Advanced Life Support (ALS) does not supersede BLS.
• Must meet credentialing requirements and obtain appropriate clinical privileges.
• Personnel Security Investigation required.
• Work may include irregular hours, evenings, weekends, holidays, and varying schedules.

Must be a U.S. Citizen.

• Doctor of Optometry degree from an ACOE‑accredited program.
• Passing score on the National Board of Examiners in Optometry (NEBO) examinations.
• Current, full, and unrestricted license to practice optometry in a U.S. state, D.C., Puerto Rico, or U.S. territory.
• One year of professional optometrist experience, including examination, diagnosis, and treatment of visual disorders.
• One year residency completion in a credentialed institution; substitution of education for experience not permitted for this role.

Competitive compensation, paid time off, medical benefits, student loan repayment, and a retirement package with a Thrift Savings Plan and matching employer contributions.