Dispensing Optician

Ready to deliver the best patient care from the heart of our store? If your answer is yes, as a qualified Dispensing Optician, you could be a role model playing a key part in creating a warm, friendly atmosphere, and an outstanding store environment for our customers and industry-leading team.  

Specsavers Reading, located in the centre of town, are looking for a new Dispensing Optician.

What’s on offer?

• Salary up to £40,000 depending on experience
• £5,000 welcome bonus! Terms apply
• Excellent performance related bonus scheme
• 33 days holiday plus your Birthday off 
• Parking discount offered 
• Located just a 5 minute walk from the train station
• Sick Pay 
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Pension contribution
• Exceptional clinical and professional development opportunities
• GOC fees paid
• WeCare- Employee support service to help you and your immediate family when need it most including Best Doctors second medical opinion service and 24/7 virtual GP
• Complimentary subscription to the Headspace app – your personal guide to mindfulness, sleep, focus, movement and more
• Specsavers listed as No.23 in top 50 Best Workplaces™ in the UK

About The Role

Following substantial and on-going growth, Specsavers Reading have an exciting opportunity for a Dispensing Optician to join their team. You will be working closely with the wider team to ensure that each customer you dispense receives a consistent quality handover, as well as manage aftersales service, including problem solving in a customer service focused ‘can do’ manner. Contributing to your achievement of individual and team sales targets is also crucial in this role. 

Our team are open and friendly, we have regular social events including team breakfasts, pizza nights, bowling and CPD events. We love to think about the support you would like, so are very happy to support with training as soon as you start if you are looking to further your career; whether that be Contact Lens, clinical or management.

What We’d Love To See

Alongside being a qualified and GOC registered Dispensing Optician, we are searching for someone who shares our store’s ethos. Someone who wants to grow, develop and offer exceptional customer care along the way. We want a practitioner who prides themselves on their clinical judgment, that isn’t afraid of a hands-on approach and who is keen to get involved and build rapport with the rest of the team. In summary, we’re looking for a skilled Dispensing Optician to join us, be part of the team and assist in driving our practice forward.

Find out more

If you like the sound of this opportunity, get in touch, we’d love to tell you more about it. Contact Alex Caluori on 01566 770 223 or email alex.caluori@specsavers.com