Optometrist

Position: Optometrist

Location:  Wokingham

Salary: Up-to £65k + bonus scheme (potential to earn total package of £75k on target earnings!)

Working hours: Full time or part time

Experience level: You must be a GOC registered Optometrist

 Specsavers in Wokingham are looking for an ambitious and talented Optometrist. We’re a community-focused store dedicated to ensuring that every one of our customers receives an excellent patient experience. We’re seeking an Optometrist ready to use their passion and knowledge to help us build on our ever-growing and loyal customer base. Join us at Specsavers in where we deliver the very best in customer care.

What’s on Offer?

• Holiday allowance of 33 days per year + your birthday off!
• All professional fee's covered by the store
• Paid sick leave
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, parental leave
• Eyecare vouchers!
• Free roadside parking nearby
• Pension contribution
• Outstanding clinical and professional development opportunities
• Support with CPD points
• WeCare- WeCare looks after your wellbeing with a 24/7 UK-based online GP, mental health counselling, a get fit programme, legal and financial guidance, plus much more. Using your phone, tablet or desktop, you and your family have 24/7 access to thousands of experts, all from the comfort of your own home.
• Annual subscription to the “Headspace” app
• Access for all store employees to our discounted benefits scheme
• Access to the latest clinical technology such as OCT and phoropters in all rooms
• No late nights and alternate weekends off
• Daily morning “huddle meetings” and training with the whole team
• Specsavers Perk – discounts and cashback from a vast range of high street shops, supermarkets, restaurants holidays and MUCH MUCH more

We are passionate about the clinical development of our team, and as our new Optometrist, we would support you with extra courses and specialisms that interest you. Whatever your ambitions, from WOPEC qualifications and independent prescribing to paediatric accreditations or enhanced optical services, we’ll do everything we can to help you be the best clinician you can be.

What we’re looking for

Alongside being a qualified and GOC registered Optometrist, 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 resident Optometrist to join us, be part of the team and assist in driving our practice forward.

Your progression

Our Optometrists are an integral part of our store management team, so we’re keen to get you up to speed outside the test room too. With ILM courses, Pre-Reg supervision and the Specsavers Partnership scheme (Pathway) all available to explore. Along with your clinical expertise – this will stand you in good stead if you choose to become our store director yourself one day. 

Location

Wokingham is a busy market town in Berkshire; 37 miles west of London, 7 miles southeast of Reading, 8 miles north of Camberley and 4 miles west of Bracknell.  The train station is a 10-minute walk from the store; London being an easy 35 minute journey. 

Find out more

For more information or to apply, please contact Alex Caluori at Specsavers Recruitment Service on 01566770228 or alex.caluori@specsavers.com.