Trainee Optical Assistant

Specsavers; New Milton; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Trainee Optical Assistant in New Milton, where your passion for customer service can thrive. No previous experience needed, with full training provided and opportunities for progression. You will ensure outstanding care to customers while working with a supportive team and enjoy benefits like a day off for your birthday and in-store discounts.

Benefits

In-store discount

Bonus and incentives

Day off for your birthday

Excellent progression opportunities

Great transport links and local free parking

Qualifications

• Passion for providing excellent customer service and making customers’ lives easier.
• Great teamwork and good initiative.
• Confidence in using IT systems.
• Excellent communication and listening skills.

Responsibilities

• Create an outstanding store environment for customers and team.
• Ensure every patient receives the best care.

Skills

Customer service

Teamwork

Initiative

IT systems confidence

Communication

Listening skills

Openness to feedback

Job description

So, you’re a proactive people person, passionate about retail and offering the best customer service? Sounds like you’d be a great fit here. So, if you’ve ever considered a career in optics, this Trainee Optical Assistant role could be perfect for you.

As a Trainee Optical Assistant, you don’t need to have previous experience, you just need to be prepared to create an outstanding store environment for both our customers and our team, making sure every patient receives the best care in our stores.

Our store

Specsavers New Milton

Our team

Training provided by a friendly and welcoming team with fantastic progression opportunities - Cert 3, Cert 4 (BTech equivalents)

What’s on Offer?

• Full time hours - 40 a week
• Weekend working is an essential part of this role
• Starting salary up to£25,800 an hour depending on age
• In store discount
• Bonus and incentives
• Day off for your birthday
• Excellent progression opportunites
• Great transport links and local free parking

What we’re looking for?

If this is still sounding like a bit of you, we do need you to have a few skills to get started as a Trainee Optical Assistant.

These include:

• Passion for providing excellent customer service and making customers’ lives easier

• Great teamwork

• A good initiative

• Confidence in using IT systems

• Excellent communication and listening skills

• Prepared to step out of your comfort zone and try something new

• Able to receive feedback and be open to development, knowing we’ll be there to support and guide you throughout your process (with your openness and our guidance, your opportunities will be endless).

Find out more

If you’ve got all these skills, we’d love for you to apply, but there’s also some desirable experience that could set you apart from the competition if you have it.

This includes:

• Previous experience in a fast-paced customer service environment

• A desire to learn, develop and grow a career

Checked all the boxes? Now’s the perfect time to apply!

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