OPTICIAN / CLINICAL OPTOMETRY
The HND specialty Optician aims to train professionals to combat the low vision and avoidable blindness. These professionals are responsible for correcting visual defects with glasses and administering emergency eye care.
Generic Skills
- Be responsible and reflective;
- Have gestural skills and interpersonal skills;
- Recognize your emotions and use them with the necessary professional skills;
- Have proven trust and confidence;
- Have critical ability and questioning;
- Develop an ethical and a professional normal;
- make thoughtful decisions;
- Act with autonomy and responsibility in the well-defined fields of its function;
- Master the management (financial, stock, human resources), marketing and standards opposite the regulations in force for the best monitoring of activities in law firms;
- Being able to communicate easily both in writing and orally;
- Master the computer tool and ICT.
Specific skills
The control of refraction (visual examination)
- Adapt the prescription and establish the formula of the optical equipment;
- Propose and evaluate solutions (in terms of compensation protection Ŕ performance …);
- Perform visual examination and low vision tests;
- Find an anomaly and refer to another health professional;
- Communicate, ensure and develop relations with health professionals.
Sales Technician – Marketing
- Welcome, inquire about needs and provide information;
- Prepare the sale;
- Analyze the morphology, the posture, the face of the client;
- Analyze the visual needs of the client (prescription use customer’s wishes);
- carry out the preliminary tests, put in condition of use and take the measurements (spectacles, specific equipments);
- Design the equipment (glasses, specific equipment);
- Propose and choose the equipment (glasses, specific equipment);
- Write the execution sheet;
- Perform the preliminary tests, put in condition of use and take the measures (low vision, contact lenses);
- Propose, advise and sell optical instruments (visual aids, microscopes, binoculars,telescopes, terrestrial and astronomical spectacles);
- Propose, advise and sell accessories and optics maintenance products.
Equipment mounting technique
- Knowledge of workshop equipment;
- Composition and characteristics of the grinding wheels;
- Characteristics of the different types of grinding wheels (hand grinding wheels, creasing machines, grinding machines, automatic grinding wheels);
- The different programs for cutting glasses;
- Food ;
- Water circuit ;
- Waste disposal ;
- Precautions for use;
- Routine maintenance and consumables.
Centering and focusing glasses
- Centering mode (manual-pointing engraving Ŕ automatic;
- References according to glasses;
- References according to the measurements;
- Transcription of measures;
- Fixing the glass;
- Choice of the adapted support.
Drilling – notching
- Different types of drills;
- Position of the holes notching;
- Fixing systems.
Assembly of glasses
- Preliminary checks;
- Axing, horizontality of the glasses;
- Condition of the frame (meniscage);
- Choice of material adapted (to the type of frame and the type of glasses).
Rebuilding
- Following a protocol adapted to the frame and glasses;
- According to the recommendations requested (pre-adjustment);
- Prepare the equipment for delivery.
Repair, Maintenance
- Metal frames;
- Plastic frames;
- Ice frames (Nylon, breakthrough).
- Public function;
- Hospitals and private clinics;
- NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations);
- Self-employment;
- Occupational Medicine ;
- Research and training




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