Dispensing Optician

Role Description

Join our Team as Special School Dispensing Optician-Mobile- SEN Services

• Location: London and the home counties with urgent need for South West London
• Salary: £31,500 per annum with See Ability benefits + all professional fees and travel expenses paid + company pension
• Hours: Full Time (37.5 hours
  - Monday to Friday) or Part Time (negotiable)
• Contract: Permanent
• Essential: Ability to attend multiple schools in your London region is required, as well as a full driving license and regular access to a car

This is an exciting opportunity for a full-time/ part-time dispensing optician to work in a non-commercial, clinically challenging setting providing complex, creative and often life-changing support with spectacles to young people as part of our NHS special school eyecare service. You will have your own caseload of London schools and will work collaboratively with our established eye care team, as well as the school staff teams, and under the guidance of the special schools service manager and dispensing optician clinical lead.

Ability to attend multiple schools in your South West London region is required, as well as a full driving license and regular access to a car.

The successful candidate would be expected to work 4-5 school days (20-25 hours) in the school setting during term time. You will be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of clinics across your defined school caseload. This will include managing your own diary, under the supervision of the service manager and dispensing optician clinical lead, to ensure efficient, timely, high-quality care for all children under our care.

You will be responsible for providing spectacle dispensing, repairs, replacements and follow ups to your caseload.

Your responsibilities for the remainder of your Full Time role and school holidays, will be to support the special schools service manager in ensuring the smooth running of the service. The service manager will have overall responsibility for the planning of clinics, and you will support by liaising with schools to book clinic rooms and gain consent from parents, book appointment diaries for yourself and the optometrists, respond to parent and school enquiries and offer and provide teaching staff inset training on eye care and vision.

Please see the attached job description for detailed information involving the role.

Registered as The Royal School for the Blind, See Ability is one of the oldest disability charities in the UK. This year we are celebrating our 225th anniversary, having pioneered specialist support across multiple generations since 1799!

We specialise in supporting people who have learning disabilities, autism, complex needs, who may also have sight loss. Our support ranges from providing person-centred support across our many supported‑living and residential care provisions. Furthermore, we provide specialist eye‑care services to children and adults alike and assist people with a disability to find paid employment for the very first time.

See Ability provides the resources and expertise that make this possible, we support people to live ambitious lives and achieve things they never thought possible.

• Fully paid essential training inc. 15 point Module with City St Georges University of London
• Annual excellence awards
• Long service awards every 5 years and recognition
• Development discussions:
  Opportunity to discuss your progress and your future
• Leadership development academy for the next steps in your career
• 33 days holiday (Pro‑rata, incl. bank holidays), increasing to 41 days with long service (1 extra day for each year of service)
• Life events:
  Time off when you need it most
• 2 weeks Organisational Sick Pay after 6 months service, increasing to 12 weeks over your first 3 years
• Enhanced Family‑Friendly Pay
• Paid Fertility Leave
• Carers Leave available
• £500 monthly bonus scheme for two lucky colleagues
• Eligible for Blue Light Card discounts
• Discounts and cashback at hundreds of shops, restaurants and activities
• Access to Tickets for Good
• Employer contributory pension scheme:
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