Lead Optometrist

What you’ll do

Position: Lead Optometrist
Location: Chester, Cheshire
Salary: Salary up to £65k + potential £10k joining bonus (terms apply) + guaranteed bonus (depending on experience) 
Working hours: Full Time or Part Time
Experience level: You must be a GOC registered Optometrist

Specsavers in Chester are looking for a Lead Optometrist to join them. The focus at this store, is about pulling together and working as a team to ensure that our valued patients have an excellent experience. Become our new Optometrist at Specsavers in Chester – a highly successful store with a great reputation for staff progression and the very highest standards of customer care. 

What’s on Offer?
•    An annual salary of up to £65,000 (depending on experience)
•    A welcome bonus of up to £10,000 (terms apply) 
•    A strong performance-based bonus scheme – guaranteed for the first 3 months 
•    Pre-reg Supervision 
•    Full Time role – 40 hours a week 
•    Alternate weekends or a set weekend day 
•    Holiday allowance of 33 days per year
•    Pension contribution
•    Outstanding clinical and professional development opportunities
•    Support with CET 
•    Access to the latest clinical technology such as OCT
•    Free parking space 
•    Support with become a partner (JVP) if you wish 

Our Optometrists are an integral part of our store management team, so we’re keen to get you up to speed outside the test room too. With ILM courses, Pre-Reg supervision and the Specsavers Partnership scheme (Pathway) all available to explore. Along with your clinical expertise – this will stand you in good stead if you choose to become a store director yourself one day.

What we’re looking for
Alongside being a qualified and GOC registered Optometrist, we are searching for someone who shares our store’s ethos. Someone who wants to grow, develop and offer exceptional customer care along the way. We want a practitioner who prides themselves on their clinical judgment, that isn’t afraid of a hands-on approach and who is keen to get involved and build rapport with the rest of the team. In summary, we’re looking for a skilled Lead resident Optometrist to join us, be part of the team and assist in driving our practice forward.