Trainee Optical Assistant

Specsavers; Belfast; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-known optical retailer in Belfast is seeking a Trainee Optical Assistant. This role involves welcoming customers, booking eye tests, and providing style advice. You don’t need extensive experience, just a passion for helping others and excellent communication skills. Enjoy benefits like competitive salary and professional development opportunities in a supportive environment. If you're a great team player ready to kickstart your career, apply today.

Benefits

Salary National Living Wage plus 20p

Full time 40 hours per week

Discounted benefits scheme

Outstanding clinical and professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Passionate and hard-worker ready to help customers.
• Ability to confidently welcome and assist customers.
• Great team player with communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Welcome customers into the store.
• Book eye tests for customers.
• Pre-screen patients for eye tests.
• Provide style advice for frames.
• Measure frames for customers.
• Handle phone calls efficiently.

Skills

Customer service

Teamwork

Communication

IT skills

Adaptability

Job description

Location

Belfast Victoria Square

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.

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:

• Salary National Living Wage (depending on age) plus 20p
• Full time 40 hours per week to include weekend and evening working
• Specsavers Perks – our discounted benefits scheme
• Outstanding clinical and professional development opportunities

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? Head to our website to learn more about the role and apply today.

We look forward to hearing from you.