Optician assistant with a clinical focus.

Knowledge After completing the programme with a pass, students should be able to: 1. Describe eyewear fashion: frames, design, style and trends. 2. Describe hygiene requirements, routines and patient safety. 3. Explain and describe optical tools, instruments and machines and industry-specific products, as well as how different eye examinations are carried out and what they include. 4. Describe communication and customer relations: the customer meeting, customer psychology and customer behaviour. 5. Describe current laws and regulations in the industry: the Consumer Sales Act, the optical industry's regulations etc. 6. Describe marketing, sales techniques and the importance of additional sales 7. Describe the development of the industry, the optician's shop as retail, the professional role, its content and areas bordering on their own field of work. 8. Explain the basic anatomy and function of the eye as well as eye diseases, refractive errors and eye problems. 9. Explain purchasing, complaints and profitability thinking Skills After completing the programme with a pass, students should be able to: 1. Plan, carry out and identify resources to carry out specialised tasks as an optician assistant and optical sales assistant. 2. Solve complex problems in the field in the role of optician assistant and optical sales assistant. 3. Handle tools, instruments and machines in order to carry out workshop work such as fitting, repairs and adjustments of optical products. 4. Carry out preparatory measurements for the optician, and assist and cooperate with opticians and other colleagues at a workplace. 5. Communicate commitments and solutions in the field both orally and in writing in Swedish and English, and meet customers in a professional and service-minded way and communicate knowledge of the possibilities and limitations of the products. 6. Carry out tasks in accordance with current industry laws, rules, guidelines, routines and hygiene requirements. 7. Handle prescriptions for optical aids. 8. Describe the different materials spectacle frames are made of and the different properties of the materials. 9. Carry out a needs analysis with the customer and preliminary tests before eye examinations, adjust, measure and mark up spectacles and lenses, do contact lens fitting, and troubleshoot when a product does not work as intended. 10. Market the shop's products in an honest way in both Swedish and English Competences After completing the programme with a pass, students should be able to: 1. Independently handle content in the field of work and study that leads to further learning and professional development. 2. Supervise work activities in the field and complete assigned projects. 3. Independently and in cooperation with the customer carry out vision screening for group 1. 4. Independently and professionally sell and provide service in the optical industry, in both Swedish and English, and guide the customer in a trustworthy way from choice of frame to final product based on the customer's needs and circumstances. 5. Independently judge when a final product is of good quality and approved under the applicable standard. 6. Independently handle contact lenses according to hygiene requirements, carry out contact lens training and give safe advice on contact lens handling based on material, area of use and the customer's individual circumstances. 7. Give the consumer good and safe advice based on the lenses' material, area of use, care and the customer's individual circumstances, in both Swedish and English. 8. In consultation with a licensed optician, recommend suitable optical aids or products based on the consumer's needs. 9. Determine when a person does not meet the vision requirements for a group 1 driving licence.