Lead Optometrist

at  Specsavers

EXPERIENCE LEVEL: YOU MUST BE A GOC REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST

Specsavers in Milton Keynes are looking for an ambitious and talented 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 Milton Keynes, a highly successful store with a great reputation for staff progression and the very highest standards of customer care.
Specsavers Milton Keynes is an amazing two-story store with 8 testing rooms and all the latest equipment. Progression is always key in our mind with opportunities for further clinical progression and professional. Milton Keynes also offers multiple benefits including attendance bonuses, compressed hours, and your birthday off, not to mention the free espressos!
The location:
Milton Keynes is very easy to get to through its multiple public transport routes and local parking for those who drive. Milton Keynes is only 30 minutes from Luton and A 30-minute train ride out of the centre of London not to mention the 16 minutes from Northampton.

What’s on Offer?

• Holiday allowance of 33 days a year
• Amazing transport connections to London (30-minutes by train)
• GOC & College fees paid for
• We’re signed up to the Great Place to Work scheme, meaning we offering enhanced sick leave, parental leave, and eyecare/hearcare vouchers (such as £220 for glasses, free eye tests and OCT, and more!)
• Pension contribution
• Parking fees paid
• Free Nespresso!
• Store refit in November 2023!
• Opportunity to work across two stores
• Outstanding clinical and professional development opportunities
• All the latest equipment including OCT, Phoropters & Autorefractors
• Great team environment

What we’re looking for
With a focus on flexibility, we are open to full-time and part-time applicants and will consider any working pattern to suit you. So, whether you need condensed hours, alternate weekends or early finishes, we’re open to making it work – but let’s talk about that later.
About Specsavers
Specsavers began more than 35 years ago with the vision of two optometrists, Doug and Mary Perkins, who set out to provide best-value eyecare to everybody. Their passion for optometry has led Specsavers to become the largest privately-owned optical group in the world, delivering high-quality, affordable optical and hearing care in 10 countries. And it continues to shape the lives and experience of thousands of colleagues who are developing their careers with us across the globe. We are proud of how far we’ve come as a business, now we want to see you grow with us too.
Our store is an accredited Platinum Employer – this means you can expect an exceptional employee experience every single day you work here. The Platinum Employer Scheme is part of the Specsavers drive to become a famous place to work. Stores with this accreditation have been verified on five key employer standards: Recruitment, Performance Management and Reward, Talent Management, Learning and Development and Employee Engagement.

Please refer the Job description for details