Mobile Optometrist

VISION EXPRESS; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading optical retailer as a Mobile Optometrist, where you'll utilize advanced technology to provide exceptional eyecare solutions across multiple locations. This role offers a competitive salary, flexible working hours, and a range of benefits including a company car, bonuses, and ongoing professional development.

Benefits

Company car and £1,000 mobile allowance

Sales and performance bonuses

Competitive pension scheme

Private medical cover

Life assurance (4x salary)

Annual free eyewear

Ongoing CPD and personal development

33 days annual leave

Flexible health benefits

Lifestyle benefits like Gymflex and Travel Insurance

Qualifications

• Experience in testing patients' eyes and providing recommendations.
• Excellent communication and rapport-building abilities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced retail environment.

Responsibilities

• Travel to multiple stores to provide optometry expertise.
• Work with advanced technology for eye care solutions.
• Support the goal of enhancing customer lifestyles through eyecare.

Skills

Communication skills

Teamwork skills

Ability to work under pressure

Confidence

Passion for optometry

Job description

This is a Mobile Optometrist vacancy covering the west of Wales, including Cardigan, Pembroke Dock, and Haverford areas.

Role overview

As a Mobile Optometrist at Vision Express, you'll travel to multiple stores in your area to provide your specialist expertise. You'll work with advanced technology such as automated refraction, non-contact tonometry, automated keratometry, fundus camera, visual field analyser, OCT, and automated phoropters.

Your passion for optometry will support our goal to 'See More, Be More' for our customers, enhancing their lifestyles through suitable eyecare and eyewear solutions. We are open to flexible working hours to suit your preferences, whether that means fitting around the school run or a compressed week.

Who are we?

We are Vision Express, with over 550 stores across the UK and Ireland, offering diverse working environments from city centre flagship stores to coastal locations. As part of EssilorLuxottica, the global leader in lenses, frames, and sunglasses, we are home to brands like Ray-Ban, Oakley, Costa, Vogue Eyewear, Persol, and Oliver Peoples.

Who is the perfect candidate?

• Experience in testing patients' eyes and providing specialist recommendations on eyecare or eyewear solutions
• Excellent communication skills and rapport-building abilities to explain professional terminology clearly to patients
• Teamwork skills for collaboration across store teams
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced retail environment
• Confidence, passion, drive, and enthusiasm

Additional information

Basic salary up to £73,000, depending on experience and location, with benefits including:

• Company car and £1,000 mobile allowance
• Sales and performance bonuses
• Targeted incentives
• Competitive pension scheme
• Private medical cover for you and your family
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Annual free eyewear from day one
• Opportunities to participate in the OneSight Foundation
• Discounts for friends and family
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program
• Ongoing CPD and personal development
• Overtime paid at 85% locum rate
• Access to leading technology and excellent working environments
• Coverage of professional fees (GOC, ABDO)
• 33 days annual leave, increasing with service, plus buy/sell options
• Flexible health benefits, including Health Cash Plan, Critical Illness, Dental, and Life Cover
• Participation in internal ECP community for knowledge sharing
• Lifestyle benefits like Gymflex, Dining Cards, Travel Insurance, Experience Days, and Cycle to Work Scheme