Optical Assistant
Location: Thornbury, Bristol
Working hours: Full time (40 hours) or part time (3-4 days including a weekend day)
Experience level: You must have previous optics experience
Let us develop your career and take you further- previous experience for this role is essential.
About us:
Join our team in Thornbury, as an Optical Assistant, and youll 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 youll be given the opportunity to thrive. With a business thats constantly expanding, both in the UK and abroad, the opportunities to expand your knowledge base and develop a career have never looked better.
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!
Whats on offer?
* Support in becoming a Dispensing Optician
* Free parking
* Your birthday off
* Sick Pay
* Enhanced Family leave
* Full or part time hours
* Continued investment in you and training in your development
* Friends and family discount
* Wecare and Headspace wellness app memberships
As an Optical Assistant, youll make sure every customer gets a great experience when they come into our store. It means listening to what they want, explaining our offers and products, and dispensing single vision, bifocal and varifocallenses. Youll work to NHS guidelines (as well as our own high standards), give good, clear advice and make a positive impression, thanks to your polite and professional approach.
To secure this role you will need previous experience as either an optical assistant or dispensing assistant and have a real passion for providing fantastic customer care.
Well continue to develop and expand your knowledge of vision problems, eyecare and our products. Youve already demonstrated that youre a natural when it comes to customer care, youre articulate, good with people with an organised approach and always happy to help, so youll fit right in as a valuable member of our friendly store team, joining a business thats going places.
Find out more
If you like the sound of this opportunity, get in touch, wed love to tell you more about it.
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