Home Visits Optical Assistant

Specsavers; Chipping Barnet; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent bonus scheme

Car allowance

Great Place to Work accreditation

Job summary

Specsavers Home Visits aims to bring high-quality optical care directly to patients in their own homes and care settings. The Domiciliary Optical Assistant role focuses on dispensing accuracy, compassionate customer service, and ensuring a positive patient experience across Hertfordshire, Luton, and St Albans areas.

The position requires a full UK driving licence, a clear enhanced DBS, and a commitment to professional standards.

Qualifications

• A full UK driving licence is required.
• Enhanced DBS and barring list check will be required prior to commencement.
• Experience in optical dispensing and customer care.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality professional optical services in patients' homes and care homes.
• Maintain high dispensing and customer care standards to ensure a great patient experience.
• Support Specsavers Home Visits with flexible practice and community engagement.

Skills

Optical experience

UK driving licence

Job description

Role: Home Visits Optical Assistant, ideally you will be located in an AL postcode but if you live in HP, WD, SG or LU, we would also like to hear from you.
Area: Hertfordshire across to Luton and St Albans areas
Working Hours: Full Time - 8.30am to 5.30pm
Salary & Benefits: £28,000 per annum plus car allowance (£3,300 per annum)
Enhanced Pension contribution
Holidays are: 20 days plus bank holidays plus one extra for each year of service up to a maximum of 25 days per annum
Specsavers Perks
Excellent achieveable bonus scheme
Buy Back Holiday Scheme
"Great Place to Work" Accredited Employer
Experience level: Optical experience required a is a UK driving license

We are seeking a highly motivated, friendly and reliable Optical Assistant to join the Specsavers Home Visits.

As a Domiciliary Optical Assistant, you’ll ensure the delivery of a high, quality professional services to patients in their own homes and in some care home settings. You must have high standards of dispensing and customer care, in short, you will make sure every customer gets has a great experience with us.

If you are looking for a change from the high street and want more diversity and freedom in your working day, then this role could be perfect for you. It will allow you the opportunity to put your skills to the test and make a real difference to the quality of a person’s life and help and support a local community.

Other Requirements

A full UK driving licence is required and additionally this is role is deemed to be regulated activity under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. An enhanced DBS and barring list check will be required prior to commencement of the role and repeated every 3 years.

About Specsavers Home Visits

Our passion is to deliver outstanding customer care, combined with sound dispensing advice and product recommendations that best suit individual customer needs. In additional to the highest quality equipment, we aim to provide both our store staff and our customers with an excellent overall environment. At Specsavers, we treat people as we would wish to be treated, and as such, you will be supported by well trained and motivated home visits staff, in addition to an expert professional team.

Our expectation is that you will share our vision to provide our patients with the very best professional service as well as exceptional customer care on every Home Visit.