Optical Assistant

Specsavers; Christchurch; Hybrid; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

High street discounts

Private healthcare

Headspace App

Birthday day off

Enhanced parental leave

Pension enrolment

Great progression opportunities

Job summary

Specsavers in Christchurch is seeking an Optical Assistant to welcome customers and support their eyewear journey. You’ll be part of a friendly store team, with training and progression opportunities and a flexible part-time schedule.

The role involves fast-paced customer service with optics experience preferred, and offers generous benefits including private healthcare, high street discounts, Headspace access, a birthday day off, enhanced parental leave, pension enrolment and strong progression

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a fast-paced customer service environment.
• Experience in Optics (ideally in a retail setting).

Skills

Customer service

Optics experience

Job description

Are you a caring individual looking to continue your career as an Optical Assistant? If so you’ve come to the right place.

We’re looking for passionate, hard-workers with some previous optical experience ready to confidently welcome and help customers as they walk through our doors. And once you’ve found your feet as an Optical Assistant, you won’t just have to stop there. We have plenty of professional training and development in other business areas, as well as the support of experienced Opticians and Technicians supporting you on your journey. So whatever you want your career to look like, you can bring it to life at Specsavers.

Our store

Based in beautiful, historic Christchurch, our store is right in the heart of the town and has great transport links.

Our team

We have a wonderful team of dedicated people in our store ready and waiting for you to meet.

What’s on Offer?

As well as all the support you need and great training and development opportunities, we have a whole load of benefits on offer for you to enjoy. These include:

• £13.24 per hour
• Bonus structure after probation
• Part time 3 days a week including one weekend day (22.5 hours a week)
• Specsavers Perks: High street discounts
• Private healthcare with Aviva including annual spectacle and dental cover
• Funded access to the Headspace App to support your wellbeing
• Additional day off for your birthday
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension enrolment
• Great progression opportunities

Find out more

We’d love to hear from you if this is ticking all your boxes and you have the following experience:

• Previous experience in a fast-paced customer service environment
• Experience in Optics (ideally in a retail setting)