Optical Assistant
6 months ago
Optical Assistant (Domiciliary). **Trainee or experienced.**
In this position you will be out and about in the community, driving within Oxfordshire. You'll be providing **vital **domiciliary eyecare to some of the most vulnerable members of our community.
Making patients really happy whilst learning new skills and having a different adventure every day. Imagine leaving work each day with a real sense of achievement. You can have all of this plus only **work Monday to Friday **with a job in Specsavers Domiciliary.
Your main Optical Assistant responsibility will be to provide support to the Optometrist when visiting patients in their own homes.
This will include:
- Carrying out handovers with the Optometrist
- Being able to provide a personalised dispensing service to each patient you meet.
- Guiding patients through our offers & products to ensure the right choice.
- Selecting frames, dispensing single vision, bifocals and varifocals.
- Setting up testing equipment
- Fitting and adjusting glasses
Customer care is high on our agenda, so you must love dealing with our more vulnerable members of the community. The optical training will be provided
What’s in it for you?
- **up to £23,500 salary**:
- Varied role where no two days are the same
- **Company car, free insurance, maintenance (tyres/service etc.), mileage allowance. (or car allowance with mileage allowance)**:
- Opportunity to enhance your existing skills in optics
- **Working Monday to Friday. No bank holidays**:
- Paid DBS (Disclosure Barring Service check/certificate)
- **Percentage discounts on supermarket/groceries purchases, entertainment, home, utility discounts, discounts on gym and fitness memberships.**:
- Mobile phone
- Headspace app subscription
- Lone worker app subscription
- Access to Diversity & Inclusion networks
- Health & Mental Wellbeing support subscription WeCare (includes access for immediate family)
- Up to £135 cover for general dental treatment, up to £150 towards chiropody/podiatry, and many more cash benefits.
- Free access to the personal service: Best Doctors (a service that provides online consultant support and access to Canada Life's Second Medical Opinion)
- Personal Specsavers Development Plan
- Free glasses for individual
- Free uniform
- Opportunity to work with a friendly team
- Continuous personalised training via a training portal (can be accessed anywhere 24/7)
We would welcome applicants who can drive and hold a full clean uk driving license, partner this with some excellent customer care skills and a genuine passion for helping the community. (The optical training will be provided.)
Looking forward to hearing from you
**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: Up to £23,500.00 per year
**Benefits**:
- Company car
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Store discount
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 05/09/2022
Reference ID: Oxford Optical Assistant
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