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Last year Specsavers put the call out to young and emerging designers through the inaugural Young Innovator Design Competition, a program designed to give Australian and New Zealand design students the opportunity to create a new cutting-edge eyewear collection.
A team of Specsavers senior support office leaders headed to Alice Springs this week to learn more about the opportunities to work more closely with local health providers in and around Alice Springs to help close the gap in eye health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
My Phuong Lam is Specsavers Audiology’s 26th partner operating out of our Burwood, Leichardt and Ashfield stores in Sydney’s west. A recent winner of Specsavers’ Audiology Business of the Year award, My Phuong discusses a day in the life of a Specsavers partner – from team huddles first thing in the morning to patient outcomes reviews before home time.
James Darwin is Specsavers Audiology’s 34th partner, operating out of South Australian store Noarlunga. James spoke to us about transitioning from teaching to audiology, why he wanted to join Specsavers and how he’s finding it so far.
Michael Feetham is Specsavers Audiology’s 19th partner and our first South Australian partner, operating out of the Thebarton and West Lakes stores in Adelaide’s west. Following his first 12 months in business, he explains how his customers have found the Specsavers Audiology model, the challenges he’s faced and advice for prospective partners.
Specsavers will again be sponsoring the Association of Dispensing Opticians of New Zealand’s (ADONZ) annual conference in November, and is offering a number of Certificate IV in Optical Dispensing (Cert IV) students financial assistance to attend.
A number of Certificate IV in Optical Dispensing (Cert IV) students concluded a day of dispensing professional development with a celebration of their educational achievement.
The customer and how to meet their changing visual needs was front and centre at the third Specsavers Dispensing Conference (SDC3).
At Specsavers we are well versed in supporting overseas-trained optometrists to successfully complete OCANZ exams – enabling them to immigrate and practise here in Australia and New Zealand as fully-qualified local optometrists. Over the past nine years, our OCANZ Support team has helped over 130 overseas-trained optometrists through this program.
Envisioning a different lifestyle for her young family, Scottish optometrist Lesley Allan decided to move to Australia. Here, she describes the process of qualifying to practise optometry in Australia through the Optometry Council of Australia and New Zealand (OCANZ), and how, with Specsavers’ assistance, she was able to realise her dream.
