BTS Optician

This BTS enables students to practise the profession of optician-mutician. The optician-mutician is a qualified, independent health professional whose activity is regulated by Articles L.4362-1 et seq. of the Public Health Code and the relevant case law.

The spectacle optician is involved in the following areas: health, technology, communication and marketing, management.

He is able to:

• perform vision analysis, establish the equipment formula
• proceed with the necessary orders
• prepare and check the equipment, (glasses or lenses)
• proceed with tests, adapting the equipment carrying out routine repairs or having them carried out

He/she also has

• communication skills (customer reception, dialogue with other specialists),
• outfitting the sales outlet and management skills (preparing price lists, running the business, managing human resources..)

BC01 - Geometrical and physical optics

• Correctly put together and analyse a problem in relation to professional activities
• Provide information and express yourself in writing on a scientific subject

BC02 - Technical study of optical systems

• Apply the laws of theoretical optics to the technical systems used and marketed in the context of professional activity
• . Technical study of optical systems
  • Apply the laws of theoretical optics to the technical systems used and marketed as part of the professional activity
  • Know the components and materials used in ocular optical equipment
  • Know the general operating principles (optical and mechanical) of the technical systems used and marketed as part of the professional activity
  • Mobilise this knowledge in order to analyse, validate criticise all or part of an optical and mechanical technological solution chosen in the design of a technical system

  BC03 - Vision analysis

  • Anomalies in the functioning of the eye
  • Anomalies in the functioning of the visual system
  • Tests usually used in optometry
  • Possible compensations for a client's visual problems
  • Synthesis of a set of eye examination data enabling a prescription to be made
  • Summary notions on eye pathologies

  BC04 - Eye examination and taking measurements and fitting

  • Use the methods and means necessary to carry out an eye examination and mobilise your knowledge to establish the optometric assessment prior to defining the equipment formula
  • Use the methods and means necessary to record the customer's morphological characteristics and mobilise your knowledge to propose and fit a frame that meets the customer's desires, his morphology and the technical constraints of production

  BC05 - Control of equipment and technical production

  • Use the methods and means necessary for the control and evaluation of equipment and mobilise knowledge to analyse, evaluate and propose solutions adapted to the production presented
  • Use the methods and means necessary to carry out a technical operation significant to the professional activity of a spectacle optician

  BC06 - Activity in a professional environment

  • Determine, order and highlight the essential points of the activities conducted during the professional exercise
  • Master the techniques of oral communication in front of an audience
  • Use the appropriate technical vocabulary
  • Use the French language clearly and rigorously

  General teaching modules: Business economics and management; Mathematics; French; Modern foreign language

  
  

• Diploma from the Ministry of National Education and Youth Level 5 (BTS)

Find out more about this qualification (RNCP38360, exact wording of the diploma, name of the certifier, registration date of the qualification) by clicking here.

Maximum total duration of 1,350 hours
The duration of the course is indicative and will be determined according to your profile.

• All audiences

Bac technologique (STT) ou général ou professionnel ou niveau IV et 3 ans d'expérience professionnelle

20 people

Teaching method

• Fully classroom-based training

Teaching methods

• Personalised course
• Group lessons

Equipment

• Equipped technical platforms
• Room equipped with networked computer workstations
• Unmarked room with video projector

Monitoring and individualisation

Positioning upstream of entry to training.

Interviews, remediation with the educational referent and/or company referent during training.

Taking into account the satisfaction of beneficiaries during and at the end of training.

Possibility of post-training support.

For beneficiaries with disabilities: possible adaptation of training and certification methods, support by the GRETA-CFA TH referent.

Education Nationale certified teachers, Bac +3 trainers with significant experience in adult education, professional lecturers.

Tests at the end of training (one-off assessment)

In-course assessment (CCF)

Total price including VAT: €16200.00
Hourly rate including VAT: €16200.00
Hourly rate including VAT: €16200.00 Hourly rate including VAT: €16200.00
. This price is indicative and non-contractual. Depending on your status, this training course may be fully financed. Contact us.

Depending on the funding body, training is available between 15 and 45 days before the start of the course. Please contact us for further information.

Insertion into employment in a position as:

Optician in charge working alone or with employees

Optician, in charge of an optical department

Optician involved in research (manufacturing) or in sales departments in the optical industries

Optician working in an ergonomics department in industry.

Access for people with disabilities

Accessible to people with disabilities
. GRETA's offices and classrooms are located in a dedicated building. A lift is available and open to all.

Catering

A snack bar and a school restaurant are open during the school term; outside the school term, there are a number of food outlets around the school.

Transport

Buses run to the school. St Augustin station is a 10-minute walk away.

Learning dynamics built on professional simulations and group mobilisation

Experience of trainers and expertise in the content and expectations of the diploma

An essential qualification for working in an optician's office!

Success rate: 53% out of 6 people sitting the exam.

Satisfaction rate: 93% out of 6 people who responded to our satisfaction survey

Overall job integration rate: 42%