Trainee Optical Assistant

Specsavers; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Specsavers Perks

Free Parking on site

Job summary

Specsavers in Fort Kinnaird Retail Park is looking for a Trainee Optical Assistant. You’ll welcome customers, help with eye tests booking, and support our professionals as you learn on the job.

We offer strong training, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package with on-site parking. This is a full-time role requiring weekend and evening work, with ongoing professional guidance from experienced Opticians and Technicians.

Responsibilities

• Welcoming customers into store
• Booking in eye tests
• Pre-screening patients
• Providing style advice
• Measuring frames
• Taking phone calls

Job description

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

We aren’t looking for people with years of experience and heaps of qualifications, just passionate, hard-workers ready to confidently welcome and help customers as they walk through our doors. And once you’ve found your feet as a Trainee Optical Assistant, you don’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.

Location

Fort Kinnaird Retail Park

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:

• £12.91ph
• Full time - to include weekend and evening working
• Specsavers Perks – our discounted benefits scheme
• Outstanding clinical and professional development opportunities
• Free Parkong on site

What we’re looking for?

Some of the responsibilities of this role include:

• Welcoming customers into store
• Booking in eye tests
• Pre-screening patients
• Providing style advice
• Measuring frames
• Taking phone calls

Find out more

If you’re ready and raring to join our team and drive our practice forward, we can’t wait to hear from you. You just need to be passionate, a great team worker and communicator, confident in using IT systems, and have an ability to adapt.

Got what we’re looking for?