Optometrist

Vision Express; Whitstable; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

Vision Express is seeking an Optometrist to leverage advanced technology and provide exceptional eyecare solutions. This role offers a competitive salary up to £79,000, flexible working options, and a variety of perks including a car allowance, bonuses, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

£4,000 car allowance

Sales and performance bonuses

Competitive pension scheme

Private medical cover for you and your family

Free annual eyewear from day one

33 days annual leave, increasing with service

Flexible health benefits

Ongoing CPD and personal development

Qualifications

• Experience in testing patients' eyes and providing recommendations.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a retail environment.

Responsibilities

• Maximise customers' lifestyles through eyecare and eyewear solutions.
• Work with advanced technology for eye testing.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Pressure handling

Confidence

Passion for optometry

Job description

Role overview

As an Optometrist at Vision Express, you’ll work with world-class technology including automated refraction, non-contact tonometry, automated keratometry, fundus camera, visual field analyser, OCT, and automated phoropters.

Your passion for optometry will support our ambition to ‘See More, Be More’ by maximising our customers' lifestyles through appropriate eyecare and eyewear solutions. In our stores, you will have the opportunity to work with advanced technology such as Automated refraction, non-contact tonometry, automated keratometry, Fundus Camera, Visual Field Analyser, OCT, and Automated Phoropters.

Although the hours of this role are advertised, we are open to discussing flexible working options to suit your needs, whether that’s hours to fit 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 a variety of working environments from city centre flagship stores to coastal locations. We are part of the EssilorLuxottica family, a global leader in lenses, frames, and sunglasses, 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 and eyewear solutions.
• Excellent communication skills to translate professional terminology into understandable language for patients.
• Ability to work collaboratively with store colleagues.
• Capability to handle pressure and challenging situations in a fast-paced retail environment.
• Confidence, passion, drive, and enthusiasm.

Additional information

Basic salary up to £79,000 (dependent on experience and location), plus:

• £4,000 car allowance
• Sales and performance bonuses
• Targeted incentives
• Competitive pension scheme
• Private medical cover for you and your family
• Free annual eyewear from day one
• Opportunities to participate in the OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation
• Discounts for friends and family
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program
• Ongoing CPD and personal development
• Overtime paid at 85% of locum rate
• Access to advanced technology and great working environments
• Coverage of professional fees such as GOC and ABDO
• 33 days annual leave, increasing with service, plus holiday buy/sell options
• Flexible health benefits, including health cash plans, additional life cover, critical illness, and dental plans
• Participation in company-wide ECP community for peer knowledge sharing
• Flexible lifestyle benefits like Gymflex, Dining Cards, Travel Insurance discounts, Experience Days, and Cycle to Work schemes
• And much more!