Dispensing Optician

Location: Wokingham
Salary: from £35 k+ (depending on experience) + bonus scheme 
Working Hours: Full or part time opportunity
Experience Level: Must have previous experience working in an optician and must have a GOC number.

Your future is clear at Specsavers Wokingham where there’s always something exciting ahead.

Come and join our accomplished team as a Dispensing Optician at Specsavers Wokingham, where we are at the height of customer care. Join us and help work to ensure every single one of our customers receives the very best patient experience. We’re community-focused and we need someone ready to use their passion, skills, and experience to build on our ever-growing and loyal customer base.

Our Dispensing Opticians are the face of our clinic on the shop floor and usually an integral part of our store management team, so we’re keen to get you up to speed with management responsibilities. With ILM courses, pre-reg supervision and Specsavers Partnership Pathway available, we can guide you on your way to becoming a great leader. This – along with your clinical expertise – will stand you in good stead if you choose to become a store director yourself one day.

Specsavers in Wokingham has 6 testing rooms with all the best equipment. Not to mention to support on offer. Our directors are passionate about the clinical development of their team, and as our new Dispensing Optician, we want to support you with extra courses and specialisms that interest you. Whatever your ambitions!!

What’s on offer?

• Holiday allowance of 33 days per year + your birthday off!
• All professional fee's covered by the store
• Paid sick leave
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, parental leave
• Eyecare vouchers!
• Free roadside parking nearby
• Pension contribution
• Outstanding clinical and professional development opportunities
• Support with CPD points
• WeCare- WeCare looks after your wellbeing with a 24/7 UK-based online GP, mental health counselling, a get fit programme, legal and financial guidance, plus much more. Using your phone, tablet or desktop, you and your family have 24/7 access to thousands of experts, all from the comfort of your own home.
• Annual subscription to the “Headspace” app
• Access for all store employees to our discounted benefits scheme
• Access to the latest clinical technology such as OCT and phoropters in all rooms
• No late nights and alternate weekends off
• Daily morning “huddle meetings” and training with the whole team
• Specsavers Perks – discounts and cashback from a vast range of high street shops, supermarkets, restaurants holidays and MUCH MUCH more

Alongside being a qualified and GOC registered Dispensing Optician, we are searching for someone who shares our store’s ethos. Someone who wants to grow, develop and offer exceptional customer care along the way. We want a practitioner who prides themselves on their clinical judgment, that isn’t afraid of a hands-on approach and who is keen to get involved and build rapport with the rest of the team. In summary, we’re looking for a skilled Dispensing Optician to join us, be part of the team and assist in driving our practice forward.

Find out more

For more information or to apply, please contact Alex Caluori at Specsavers Recruitment Service on 01566770228 or alex.caluorispecsavers.com

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