What it means to be part of the Specsavers family

Specsavers or nothing 

I started my Specsavers journey in 2015 as an apprentice in store. When I was a customer, a director of a Specsavers store told me about the apprenticeships they had and asked if I was interested. At first I thought I wanted to go to college but my Mum walked me into doing the apprenticeship, and I've never regretted it. I've loved every minute. I went from apprentice to optical assistant to working in the lab, then took a brief stint away from Specsavers at a bank, but didn’t like it at all. I saw Specsavers were advertising for home visit roles and thought that was something different, so I came back and loved it. For the past four years I’ve been a home visits optical assistant.

The reward of home visits

With home , every day is different. One day I’m in the office, the next day in York, the next a village in the middle of nowhere. That sort of freedom is brilliant and something you don’t necessarily get being in store every day. However, I would always recommend people to work in store first; get to know the products, get to know the offers, get to know what works for patients and what doesn’t, then when you start home visits you’ll be able to work independently. Independent working and being able to make decisions is so crucial. 

Doing home visits is also incredibly rewarding. For example, I went to see a patient who’d recently had a stroke. He hadn’t had his eyes tested for 15 years and only found out about our home visits because his wife went to one of our events. His glasses were falling off, taped up and completely scratched. When I delivered his new glasses, he broke down. He was so happy. For me, you can’t get much better than than that.

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