Specsavers at Home
Making a difference - in the community
Ever wondered how working in domiciliary is different from working in store as an optometrist? Optometrist partner Zetun Arif and customer service partner Charlotte McGimpsey talk us through some of the key differences.
The wide range of conditions and increased pathology that you see with elderly customers makes working as a domiciliary optometrist at Specsavers a clinically engaging and diverse career choice.
The day-to-day variety of domiciliary offers a whole new way of working for optometrists. No two days are ever the same.
Helping people is at the core of what it means to work in domiciliary. It's a role where you can combine your passion for optics with the opportunity to make a difference to the lives of people who are unable to leave home.
The perfect work/life balance
There is real flexibility in domiciliary. You can work part-time, with hours tailored to suit. And you can work some days in store to give you even more variety if you want to. It’s a great work/life balance, giving you more time to do the things you love and be with the people you love.
Closer to the customer and community
When a patient lets you into their home, they let you into their life. Gaining a patient’s confidence and trust plays an even greater part of your role as a Specsavers domiciliary optometrist than it does for your store-based colleagues. Because you spend so much of your time out and about, it stands to reason that you’ll become a more integral part of the community.
Dame Mary Perkins on life as a domiciliary optometrist
As a passionate advocate of domiciliary work, Specsavers’ Co-Founder Dame Mary Perkins talks about the life-changing work of domiciliary optometrists and the true meaning of providing eyecare for everyone – including those who are housebound or in care homes.
Working in domiciliary is great – you are never in the same place and you get to meet a range of wonderful people who are really struggling with daily tasks and unable to get out and something so simple as a new pair of glasses changes their lives.
Dylan Desai
Domiciliary optometrist partner
Working for Specsavers domiciliary enables me to fully utilise my clinical professional skills in a varied environment. In domiciliary, no two day are the same and we get to meet great patients.
Hugh Loughran
Domiciliary ophthalmic partner
I have been known to sing and dance down a corridor in a care home with an older person to gain their trust to allow me to test them.
Dawn Roberts
Clinical director – domiciliary