Apprentice Optical Assistant
Job details
Salary
From £4.81 an hourJob type
Full-time
Apprenticeship
Benefits
Pulled from the full job description
Company pension
Employee discount
Full Job Description
Brief overview of the role
Excellent opportunity to follow a career path which can lead from Optical Assistant to Dispensing Optician to Optometrist. You will work at John High Opticians, an established Optometrists, helping individuals choose the correct frames and lenses for their glasses, as well as doing other screening tests such as visual fields and retinal photos.
- Working week
- 9-5 mon-fri
- Total hours per week: 37.5
- Making appointments,
- Meeting and greeting patients,
- Updating the company’s social media accounts
- Filing/Scanning
- Spectacle repairs
- Guiding patients to choose the right frames for them
- Discussing lens options with patients
- Discussing and teaching how to use contact lenses
- Ancillary testing eg visual field testing, retinal photography
- Ordering and checking jobs.
- 28 days holiday
- Free eyewear and generous discounts for you, your family and friends
- Enrolment to our Pension scheme
- Driving licence (preferable but not essential)
- Good Computer skills eg Social media savvy and happy using Google Docs, Word, Excel etc.
- Excellent people skills
- Enthusiasm
- Honesty
- Well organised
- Friendly
- Shows initiative and drive
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday