Mobile Dispensing Optician for SEN Schools

SeeAbility; Tonbridge; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid essential training inc. 15‑

Annual excellence awards

Long service awards

Leadership development academy

Employer contributory pension scheme

Refer a colleague incentive

Paid DBS and renewals

Job summary

SeeAbility is hiring a dispensing optician to work in a non-commercial, clinically challenging NHS special school eyecare service. You will manage your own caseload across Isle of Wight schools, dispensing spectacles and handling repairs for children and young people, with support from the eye care team.

You will balance school-based clinic days with time from home, coordinating with schools, parents and staff, ensuring high-quality care and timely appointments within the term schedule.

Qualifications

• Full-time/part-time dispensing optician role within NHS SEN eyecare service.
• Experience in clinical setting with children and young people is preferred.
• Ability to travel to Isle of Wight schools and manage a caseload with travel between sites.

Responsibilities

• Provide spectacle dispensing, repairs, replacements and follow ups for your caseload.
• Manage diaries and clinics across multiple schools with supervision from the service manager.
• Coordinate with schools to book clinic rooms and obtain parental consent.
• Deliver teaching staff inset training on eye care and vision.

Skills

Dispensing Optician

Driver's license

School clinic coordination

Job description

SeeAbility is hiring a dispensing optician to work in a non-commercial, clinically challenging NHS special school eyecare service. You will manage your own caseload across Isle of Wight schools, dispensing spectacles and handling repairs for children and young people, with support from the eye care team.

You will balance school-based clinic days with time from home, coordinating with schools, parents and staff, ensuring high-quality care and timely appointments within the term schedule.