Optical Assistant
Date: 31 Oct 2026
Location: Paisley, SCT, GB, PA1 1BG
Company: Specsavers
Specsavers. A household name and a high street staple. And you could be part of the team.
If you’re a proactive people person ready to be the friendly face our stores needs, it sounds like you’d be a great fit here. If you have current or previous optical experience as an Optical Advisor or Dispensing Assistant, this Optical Assistant role could be perfect for you.
As an Optical Assistant, you’ll use your passion for the Specsavers brand, products and services alongside your incredible customer service skills, to create an outstanding store environment for both our customers and our team.
Our Store
Paisley is a large, busy, and well-established store with seven test rooms (typically running around five clinics), an on-site lab, two Dispensing Opticians, and a highly experienced team. With around eight colleagues on the shop floor at any one time, it's a well-functioning environment that benefits from strong support and expertise across the store.
Complementing this, Barrhead is a smaller, close-knit two-test-room store, offering a more intimate team environment while still delivering great customer care and support.
What’s on offer?
Our welcoming stores are a wonderful place to work, with all the equipment you need to ensure you can do your job to the best of your abilities. As well as all the support you need and great training and development opportunities, we have a whole load of benefits on offer for you to enjoy. These include:
- Full time opportunity to work across both stores (including weekend work)
- Salary: up to £27,000
- Bonus scheme
- 28 days holiday (pro rata) plus your birthday off
- Company sick pay
- Specsavers Perks plus discount platform
- Pension contribution
- Discounts on eyecare and hearcare products and services for you and friends & family
- WeCare – UK confidential employee helpline
Find out more
If you’re ready and raring to join our team and drive our practice forward, we can’t wait to hear from you. You just need to have some previous Optical Experience, be passionate, a great team worker and communicator, confident in using IT systems, and have an ability to adapt.
Got what we’re looking for? Head to our website to learn more about the role and apply today.
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