Mobile Optometrist

Vision Express; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading optical retailer is seeking a Mobile Optometrist to provide specialist expertise across multiple locations. The successful candidate will conduct eye tests and recommend eyecare solutions while ensuring exceptional patient communication. This role offers a salary up to £80,000, company car, and flexibility in working hours, along with various employee benefits.

Benefits

Company car and mobile allowance

Sales and performance-based bonus

Private medical cover

33 days annual leave

Flexible health-related benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in testing patients' eyes and providing specialist recommendations.
• Ability to translate professional terminology into understandable language.
• Confidence, passion, drive, and enthusiasm.

Responsibilities

• Test patients' eyes and recommend appropriate eyewear solutions.
• Build rapport with patients and explain technical terms.
• Collaborate with store team members.
• Handle pressure in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Experience in testing patients' eyesight

Great communication

Teamwork

Ability to work under pressure

Confidence and enthusiasm

Job description

Overview

As a Mobile Optometrist at Vision Express, you’ll travel to multiple Vision Express stores in your area to provide your specialist expertise. You’ll get to work with world class technology including automated refraction, non-contact tonometry, automated keratometry, fundus camera, visual field analyser, OCT and automated phoropters to name a few. Your passion for optometry will support our ambition to ‘See More, Be More’ for our customers, maximising their lifestyle through appropriate eyecare and eyewear solutions.

Although the hours of this role are advertised, if this sounds like the role for you, we'd love to hear about your ideal working week. Whether this is hours to fit around the school run or you prefer a compressed week – we are open to discussing flexible options with you further.

Who are we? We are Vision Express - with over 550 stores across the UK and Ireland. We are part of the EssilorLuxottica family, a world leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of lenses, frames and sunglasses. Our priority eyewear brands include Ray-Ban, Oakley, Costa, Vogue Eyewear, Persol and Oliver Peoples, complemented by over 20 licensed brands.

Responsibilities

• Experience in testing patients eyes and eyesight whilst providing specialist recommendations on appropriate eyecare or eyewear solutions
• Great communication and rapport building to translate professional terminology into language understandable to patients
• Team work with colleagues across the whole store team
• The ability to work under pressure and handle challenging situations in a fast-paced retail environment

Qualifications

• Experience in testing patients eyes and eyesight whilst providing specialist recommendations on appropriate eyecare or eyewear solutions
• Great communication and rapport building to translate professional terminology into language understandable to patients
• Team work with colleagues across the whole store team
• The ability to work under pressure and handle challenging situations in a fast-paced retail environment
• Confidence, passion, drive and enthusiasm

Anything else you should know?

• Basic salary up to £80,000 (subject to experience and location)
• Company car and £1,000 mobile allowance
• Sales and performance-based bonus
• Targeted incentives
• Competitive pension scheme
• Private medical cover for you and your family
• Life assurance - 4x your basic annual salary
• Free eyewear annually with eligibility from day one of joining us
• Opportunities to get involved in the OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation
• Discounts for friends and family
• Employee Assistance Program offering confidential support and advice
• Ongoing CPD and personal development opportunities
• Additional overtime opportunities paid at 80% of the locum rate
• Access to world leading technology and great working environments
• Coverage of professional fees such as GOC and ABDO
• 33 days annual leave - increasing with length of service, plus the option to buy or sell holiday
• Flexible health-related benefits, such as Health Cash plan, Additional Life cover, Critical Illness cover and Dental Plan
• Opportunities to join a company-wide ECP community with peer-to-peer knowledge sharing
• Flexible lifestyle benefits such as Gymflex, Dining Cards, Discounted Travel Insurance, Experience Days, and discounted bicycles through our Cycle to Work Scheme
• And so much more!

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Health Care Provider
• Retail

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