Contact Lens Optician

Position: Contact Lens Optician
Location: Bishops Stortford
Salary: From £35,000+ pro rata depending on experience PLUS £6,000 welcome bonus
Working Hours: 3 or 4 days per week (flexible on which days)
Experience Level: Role is suited to newly qualified or experienced contact lens professionals

As a Contact Lens Optician, there’s nothing quite like the feeling of being part of the Specsavers team where you’ll be part of a family that works together to give every customer the best possible service. Your role in this is crucial. With one in three UK contact lens wearers coming to us for lenses and advice, we ensure that millions of people get the right lenses, at a price they can afford.

In this key role, you’ll work to the highest professional standards, providing a contact lens fitting and aftercare service that’s in a whole different league. You’ll work to boost sales, profit and customer loyalty – exceeding customers’ needs as well as business objectives. In effect, you’ll be our resident expert, sharing your knowledge with customers and staff alike, all while working alongside our dedicated professionals, using the latest equipment.

What’s on Offer?

• An annual salary from £35,000+ (depending on experience)
• £6,000 welcome bonus (T’s&C’s apply)
• Large contact lens business at the store – you would have your own admin team
• Large store with 6 test rooms including hear care and a lab.
• Medical and Dental care
• GOC Fee’s paid
• Holiday allowance of 25 days + bank holidays per year
• Pension contribution
• Free parking on a rota system
• Train station within a 5 minute walk from the store with direct links to London Liverpool Street
• Director in the store has been a partner for 14 years and has developed colleagues clinically and professionally including pathway
• Outstanding clinical and professional development opportunities
• Support with CET
• Access to the latest clinical technology such as OCT

We are passionate about the clinical development of our team, and as our new Contact Lens Optician, we would support you with extra courses and specialisms that interest you. Whatever your ambitions, from MECs qualifications and accreditations.  Even if you’re keen to do the Optometry conversion course – 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 Contact Lens 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 Contact Lens 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, I’d love to tell you more about it. Contact Adina Mcilvar on (01566) 770229 or reach out via email to adina.mcilvars@specsavers.com