Dispensing Optician

**Position: Dispensing Optician**

**Location: Chatham, Kent**

**Salary: Up to £29,000 per annum depending on experience**

**Working Hours: Full time - alternate weekends**

**Experience Level: This role is open to both newly qualified and experienced Dispensing Opticians who are registered with the GOC**

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

Come and join our accomplished team as a Dispensing Optician at Specsavers Chatham, where we are at the height of customer care. We are now looking to recruit a qualified Dispensing Optician to 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.

We’re dedicated to our customers, but what really makes this role stand out is that we offer a workplace with a difference - where people grow both personally and professionally.

**What’s on offer?**
- Up to £29,000 per annum depending on experience
- Performance related team bonus available after probation period
- Full time opportunity - 5 days per week including alternate weekend work
- 33 days annual leave, inclusive of public holidays
- Professional fees paid
- Support with personal and professional development
- Specsavers Perks Plus
- 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

**Then there’s you**

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. We value and put our staff first and their development is key to us.

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