Occupation Atlasorthoptist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/771244bf-b204-4e7f-8b25-ee523ae7b791
orthoptist
Orthoptists diagnose and treat anomalies of binocular vision. They examine, assess and treat vision impairments, squint, amblyopia and eye motility disorders. Orthoptists apply these methods in particular in the fields of paediatrics, neurology, neuro-ophthalmology, ophthalmology, orthoptics, optometry, pleoptics and strabology assessing functional diseases of the eye for improving functional disorders of the visual system. They also provide counselling, preventive measures and training activities and may refract and prescribe glasses, such as prism corrective glasses.
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Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
IRSInvestigative · Realistic · Social — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative5.74
- R Realistic4.88
- S Social4.77
- C Conventional3.82
- A Artistic1.88
- E Enterprising1.47
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Orthoptists (29-1299.02): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (63)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- advise patients on vision improvement conditions
- anaesthetics
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- carry out orthoptic treatments
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct specialised orthoptic tests
- contact lens fitting techniques
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- determine eye disease progression
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- diagnose problems of the visual system
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- first aid
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- neuro-ophthalmology
- neurology
- neurophysiology
- ophthalmological examination methods
- optics
- orthoptics
- paediatric psychology
- paediatrics
- pathology
- perform vision rehabilitation
- pharmacology
- professional documentation in health care
- promote inclusion
- promote ocular health
- provide health education
- provide therapy of the visual system
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychology
- receive patient referrals with eye conditions
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- respond to changing situations in health care
- supervise orthoptic treatments
- test visual acuity
- treatment of strabismus
- types of strabismus
- undertake healthcare examination
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
O*NET equivalents
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