Optometrist

J344611_1733015560 London England £50K - £60K / Year

Optometrist, Wandsworth, independent, basic up to £60,000 plus bonus, full time.

A brand new opportunity has opened up at a leading independent practice, offering generous remuneration and fantastic prospects to develop in many specialist areas.

Having over 40 years' experience and a loyal customer base, our client prides themselves on delivering the highest standard of eye care possible and is searching for someone to uphold these same values, so providing a bespoke service with excellent customer service is of the uppermost importance.

To aid you with this exceptional patient care, our client offers extended test times of 40 minutes as well as modern equipment e.g. OCT, Visions 3800 Phoropter and digital records.

There are also many opportunities to develop your clinical skills with our client pushing their optometrists to get involved in specialist areas such as myopia control and to become glaucoma and MECS certified.

Key Duties

• Delivering sight tests to a high level of precision within 40 minute appointment times. Pre screens will normally be provided on your behalf by support team but may be times some flexibility is required to pre screen yourself as well
• Have an enthusiasm and willingness to learn and develop clinical skills operating in a relaxed patient focussed practice setting with full qualified Dispensing Optician support provided
• Be willing to operate as a sole Optometrist in the practice and willingness to offer some contact lens work is also required as thsi makes up roughly 20% of the role overall
• General working hours are 9:30-6:30Monday to Saturday with one hour lunch breaks. NB, The number of Saturdays required may potentially be negotiable to alternate Saturdays

Package and Benefits

• 33 days holiday inclusive of bank provided
• Sundays closed and option to request alternate Saturday working
• Staff discounts available and free parking in short walk
• £3,000 relocation bonus available!
• GOC and AOP fees covered
• Statutory Pension
• Generous salary from £50,000 upwards to c.£60,000 depending on experience

Key Skills, Qualifications and Client Requirements

• GOC registered
• Right to work in UK
• Exceptionally high levels of support provided and with relaxed test times and modern facilities this is a superb vacancy open to applications for all levels of experience including soon to qualify Optometrists

What Happens Next?

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