Dispensing Optician

Specsavers; Banbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £35,000

33 days holiday plus your Birthday off

Pension contribution

Employee support service

Complimentary subscription to Headspace app

Job summary

Specsavers in Banbury is seeking a qualified Dispensing Optician to join their team. The role involves ensuring quality handover to customers, managing aftersales service, and contributing to sales targets.

The ideal candidate will have a GOC registration and a strong focus on customer care and teamwork. The company offers professional development opportunities and a supportive team environment.

Employee perks include salary up to £35,000, 33 days holiday, and pension contributions.

Qualifications

• Qualified and GOC registered Dispensing Optician.
• Ability to contribute to sales targets.

Responsibilities

• Ensure quality handover to customers.
• Manage aftersales service and problem solving.
• Contribute to individual and team sales targets.

Skills

Customer service focus

Clinical judgment

Hands-on approach

Education

GOC registered Dispensing Optician

Job description

What’s on offer?

• Salary up to £35,000 depending on experience
• 33 days holiday plus your Birthday off
• Located just a 5 minute walk from the train station
• Pension contribution
• Exceptional clinical and professional development opportunities
• GOC & College fees paid
• WeCare – Employee support service to help you and your immediate family when needed, 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

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.