Contract Type: Permanent, Full time or Part time
Location: Gosport, United Kingdom
Job Family: Store Support | Job Category: Optical Assistant
Optical Assistant
Specsavers Gosport
Up to £26.5k depending on experience and hours worked
Full and part time hours available (full days and weekend days must be worked)
Great benefits including:
* An additional day holiday per year for long service up to a maximum of 33 days
* Onsite parking
* Friends & family discount
* Employee discount
* Discount at a wide selection of retailers (Specsavers Perks)
* Pension contributions
* Career progression supported such as: Level 3 BTEC in ophthalmic dispensing (previously known as Cert 3) and Cert 4
* Busy store with a multi-skilled team
* Friendly atmosphere
* Latest OCT and a recently refurbished store
Transport links:
* Bus routes and a ferry link from Portsmouth to Gosport
* Train station in Portsmouth next to the ferry link
Join our team as an Optical Assistant, and you’ll discover why at Specsavers, we pride ourselves on providing the foundation for exciting, long-term careers – a home where your previous optical expertise will be truly valued and where you’ll be given the opportunity to thrive.
Optical Assistant roles at Specsavers are now even more rewarding. Join us and complete a nationally recognised qualification equivalent to a Level 3 BTEC to accelerate your optical career. The course improves knowledge and understanding of dispensing procedures and provides a stepping stone to the roles of DO, CLO and beyond!
We’re looking for someone who has previous optical experience as an Optical Advisor or Dispensing Assistant – however, we’ll continue to help develop and expand your knowledge.
Some of the key tasks required include:
* Listening to patients, and giving good clear advice, explaining suitable products & offers whilst understanding NHS procedures & applying our own high standards
* Dispensing of lenses (single vision / bi-focal & varifocal)
* Carrying out pre-screening examinations & working alongside the wider team in day-to-day running of clinics
* Taking measurements and supporting patients with collections, ensuring fit, comfort & accuracy of frames are checked thoroughly
* Maintaining delivery of excellent customer service at all times, playing a valuable part of a customer journey & successful retail team.
You’ve already demonstrated that you’re a natural when it comes to customer care, you’re articulate, good with people with an organised approach and always happy to help, so you’ll fit right in as a valuable member of our friendly store team, joining a business that’s going places.
If you are interested, please click Apply as this vacancy will close once we have filled all available places.
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