Requirements
Candidates must have a minimum of 2 years of experience as a GOC registered optometrist. The role requires collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team and a commitment to delivering exceptional patient care.
Job Description
Optometrist Role
Location - South Woodford
As the UK's leading private provider of laser eye, premium intraocular lens and cataract surgery, our expert Surgeons undertake more procedures collectively than any other national provider. For over 35 years, millions of patients have trusted Optical Express with their eye care. We are focused on delivering exceptional patient care, outstanding clinical outcomes and continued investment in our people and technology.
A fantastic opportunity has become available for an optometrist to join our consultation clinic in South Woodford.
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team alongside experienced eye care professionals, including ophthalmologists, and play a crucial role in the delivery of a diverse range of clinical eye care services to our patients. We ask that you have a minimum of 2 years experience as a GOC registered optometrist.
At Optical Express, no two days are the same. Your role will be varied and can include:
- Pre and post-operative consultations for our refractive and cataract surgery patients
- Providing clinical support to our ophthalmologists
- Providing Essential and Advanced Eye examinations for our patients
Your package:
We are committed to providing optometrists with rewards and benefits that really make a difference. The fantastic range of benefits you will receive include:
- A market leading salary
- Salary enhancement through our Performance Pay scheme
- 33 days annual leave per year, increasing with length of service
- Pension Scheme
- Private Healthcare
- Paid Professional Fees
- Indemnity Coverage
- Independent Prescribing Sponsorship and Placement Assistance
- Access to Optical Express CET courses
- Complimentary or discounted Laser Eye Surgery, Intraocular Lens surgery or Lipiflow treatment
- Generous Optical Express Friends and Family Discount scheme
Full and part time opportunities are available. Relocation allowances will be considered.
Optical Express is committed to providing clinicians and patients alike with access to state of the art diagnostic and treatment technologies from a range of market leaders such as Carl Zeiss and Johnson & Johnson Vision.
Full refractive and cataract surgery training will be provided and is delivered by experienced clinicians. To ensure you have maximum support day-to-day in the clinic, you will work alongside an exceptional professional team, as well as having access to invaluable guidance from the Clinical Services team, which includes some of the most experienced optometrists and ophthalmologists in the specialist areas of refractive surgery and cataract care.
Skills
About Optical Express
We’re a leader in eye care, particularly in lens and laser eye surgery. In fact, we’re Europe’s No.1 laser eye surgery provider, with locations in 7 countries including Germany and Croatia. We’re the UK’s leading complete eye care provider too. Our 128 stores and clinics offer exceptional service and outstanding visual solutions, from designer glasses to high-quality contact lenses and from lens, cataract and laser eye surgery to LipiFlow dry eye treatment. We also understand that the people at the heart of our business make us what we are. Our culture is incredibly important. The values we work towards are Patient & Customer Focus One Team Delivering Results Trusted Excellence Across all areas of Optical Express we’re committed to helping our employees learn and develop to deliver service excellence. In the last few years we’ve made additional investment into transformational change. It’s had a hugely positive impact, on our patients’ experience and on our colleagues in their day-to-day roles. For optometrists, it’s an exciting time to be at Optical Express. No matter what stage of the career ladder you’re on, there’s no better place in which to develop clinically. We believe that our CET-approved professional development courses and clinical support systems are second to none. Our partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University offers our optometrists the opportunity to qualify as Independent Prescribers, fully funded by us. We also invest in continued training for team members across Optical Express, with a number of colleagues currently working towards qualifications in Marketing, Learning & Development and Personnel Practice. We believe that Optical Express has a responsibility to give back, and we want to make a difference on a worldwide scale, too. We continue to partner with international charity Sightsavers, working to eliminate avoidable blindness in developing countries, and support charities at home including The STV Appeal and Cash for Kids.
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