Optical Assistant

**Optical Assistant**

**Location/Region: Pocklington working within one of our busy high street stores within this region, we have stores on most highstreets**

**Salary: £20,000-£22,000Pa Plus Benefits**

**About Us**:
Introducing **HMP Recruitment**: Your healthcare talent partner.

**Our Client**:
The company Founded in 1938 by a qualified optician and pharmacist our client started operating from the heart of the Midlands, with a focus on customer care and excellent eyecare service’s alongside hearing aid care, they have grown rapidly and now have over 169 branches across England with continuing growth among the highstreets.

With this in mind, our client is offering an excellent competitive package with a fantastic benefits package

**The position**:
Our client is seeking an experienced Optical Assistant to join one of their many busy high street stores.

You will be responsible for assisting customers and providing excellent customer service within our retail branch. Helping customers with frame adjustments, repairs, fittings and selection and dealing with customer queries.
- Meeting and greeting customers offering excellent customer service
- Performing pre-screening eye health checks
- Ensuring a smooth and friendly handover to the optometrist
- Dispensing glasses
- Fitting and repairing spectacles
- Contact lens teaches
- Administration duties

**Desired experience**:

- Previous experience of working within a high street opticians
- Customer service Experience
- Computer literate

**Benefits**:

- Career progression opportunities - diversify into Hearing care, move into regional management or qualify as a Dispensing optician or Hearing Aid Dispenser
- Quarterly management bonus
- 4 weeks annual leave + Bank Holidays
- Company Pension
- **If this role is not suitable for you but you would be interested in other roles within Optometry and Hearing Care

**Salary**: £20,000.00-£22,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Every weekend
- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Do you have previous experience as an optical assistant?

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: DA2