Chantelle Van Staden is originally from South Africa and currently works as an optometrist at Specsavers Swords in Dublin. We caught up with her to hear about what it was like to go through the CORU recognition process to practice in Ireland, and her journey to Specsavers Partnership. There’s no such thing as too much […]
Optical Assistant Olivia Booth joined Specsavers from a department store retail role. She’s loving using her fantastic people skills to have a more direct and positive impact on her local community.
CLO Director, Brad Parkes, has been running Specsavers stores across three decades. Heading up the stores of Solihull and Shirley, he shares his experience of Partnership and the value of having CLOs within the business.
Have you ever wondered what a Pre-reg Optometry student gets up to on a typical day at Specsavers? We caught up with Charlotte Acton to find out. My daily routine… I set up my test room first thing in the morning and then look through my patient list for the day. After the daily team […]
Covering the South Wales Coast, Cardiff based Domiciliary Optometrist Jason Scaife, is thoroughly enjoying his role with Specsavers Home Visits. After a few years working in store, his career advanced into Domiciliary. He moved from locum to a permanent role with Specsavers only last year. Starting with Specsavers I joined Specsavers last February on Valentine’s […]
Kejal Shah is an Ophthalmic Domiciliary Director, her region covers Surrey and Kent. She spoke to us about the main reason she chose Specsavers Home Visits, the people she meets and the skills she has learnt through Domiciliary. Hi Kejal, thanks for talking to us, first of all, what’s your journey with Specsavers been like […]
Qualifying in 2020, Eamon Tariq, took the Specsavers Pathway to Partnership course and aged 28, is now a Joint Venture Partner. Starting out with Specsavers as a part-time Optical Advisor, while studying Optometry at University, he completed his pre-reg at the same store – joining the Pathway course as soon as he’d qualified. We caught […]
One of our optometrists was in for quite the surprise, treating a patient who came to practice with a fly the size of a pinkie fingernail tucked beneath his lower eyelid.
The safety of our colleagues and customers is always the most important thing to us, so we’ve made some changes in-store to keep everyone safe.
Optometrist Director Satvinder Soomal shares his thoughts on practising optometry during a pandemic.
