Optical Assistant Apprenticeship - Carlisle Specsavers

Specsavers; Carlisle; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 19,000; Full time

Job summary

Specsavers in the United Kingdom offers a Level 3 Optical Assistant Apprenticeship. You will work full-time (40 hours/week) for 1 year and 6 months, starting on 2026-12-01, with a wage of £17,101.92 per year. Training is in-store with Specsavers Optical Superstores Limited as the provider.

On completion, you’ll be a fully qualified Level 3 Optical Assistant with a broad range of career options ahead, and weekend work may be required during the programme.

Qualifications

• GCSE Maths (grade 9-4 or A*-C) is essential.
• Strong communication and customer-care skills are required.
• Ability to work well in a team and show initiative.

Responsibilities

• Provide top-notch advice and warmly welcome customers.
• Book eye tests for customers.
• Pre-screen patients and measure frames.
• Help keep the store running smoothly and address small issues.

Skills

Communication

Organisation

Customer care

Team working

Initiative

Education

GCSE Maths (grade 9-4 (A*- C))

Job description

• By giving customers top-notch advice (as well as a warm welcome to the store)


• Booking eye tests


• Pre-screening patients and measuring frames


• You'll also make sure everything runs as smoothly as possible by looking out for any little problems that crop-up

Training

• Level 3 Optical Assistant Apprenticeship Standard


• End-Point Assessment (EPA)


• Full-time 5 out of 7 days- including weekend working


• Daily on-the-job training in store- no college to attend


• Training provider- Specsavers Optical Superstores Limited

What happens at the end

• Once you have completed the apprenticeship, you'll be a fully qualified Level 3 Optical Assistant with a massive range of career options ahead of you

Skills

• Communication skills


• Organisation skills


• Customer care skills


• Team working


• Initiative

Qualifications

• GCSE Maths (grade 9-4 (A*- C)) - essential

Key details

• Wage: £17,101.92 a year


• Working week: Days and times to be confirmed to include weekend.


• Hours: 40 hours per week


• Duration: 1 Year 6 Months


• Start date: 2026-12-01


• Closing date: 2026-11-17


• Apprenticeship standard: Optical assistant 2022 (level 3)


• Training provider: SPECSAVERS OPTICAL SUPERSTORES LIMITED

About the employer

Specsavers have been a family business for over 35 years, working together with our store partners to provide the best value optometry, audiology and other healthcare service for our customers. You’ll find us in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Australia and New Zealand, employing over 38,000 people who work across our 2,293 stores, as well as in our support offices and throughout the supply chain.