Dispensing Optician

**Position: Dispensing Optician**

**Location: Melksham**

**Salary: £33,000 pa DOE**
**Working hours: Full Time or Part Time**
**Experience level: You must be a GOC registered Dispensing Optician**

**Other Benefits Include**
- 5:30pm finishes, no later nights
- Pension contribution
- Birthday off every year
- Exceptional clinical and professional development opportunities
- Enhanced Sick pay
- Enhanced Maternity pay
- Quarterly paid teams social event

**About The Role**

Specsavers in Melksham are expanding and have an exciting opportunity for a Dispensing Optician to join their team. With a focus on flexibility, we are open to full-time and part-time applicants and would love to chat about your ideal working week.

You will be working closely with the Optometrists to ensure that each customer you dispense receives a consistent quality handover, as well as manage aftersales service, including problem solving in a customer service focused ‘can do’ manner. Contributing to your achievement of individual and team sales targets is also crucial in this role.

Our team are open and friendly, we have a minimum of 4 social events annually including team breakfasts, pizza nights, bowling and CPD events.

**About The Area**

**Melksham is a beautiful historic market town located in Wiltshire. The nearby kennet and avon canal offers great bike rides or walks. King George V Park, is a large lawn area with a children’s playground, a canoe club on the river and a recreation area. It’s also where some of the town’s bigger events take place. Melksham is also full of independent shops, pubs and cafés. There is a regular Tuesday market.**:
**Our store is an accredited Platinum Employer - this means you can expect an exceptional employee experience every single day you work here. The Platinum Employer Scheme is part of the Specsavers drive to become a famous place to work. Stores with this accreditation have been verified on five key employer standards: Recruitment, Performance Management and Reward, Talent Management, Learning and Development and Employee Engagement.**:
**Specsavers are an accredited Great Place to Work in the UK and have most recently been awarded the 23rd best place to work in the UK for 2024.**

**What We’d Love To See**

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.

**Any Questions?