Special School Dispensing Optician – Mobile SEN Services
Location: Schools across the Thames Valley region.
Salary: £31,500 per annum plus SeeAbility benefits, professional fees, travel expenses and a company pension.
Hours: Full time (37.5 hrs Monday–Friday) or part‑time (negotiable).
Contract: Permanent.
Essential Requirements
* Ability to attend multiple schools in the Thames Valley region.
* Possession of a full driving licence.
* Regular access to a car.
About the Role
You will work in a non‑commercial, clinically challenging setting providing complex, creative, and life‑changing support with spectacles to young people as part of our NHS special school eye‑care service.
The role involves:
* Working 4–5 school days (20–25 hours) during term time and the remainder from home.
* Managing your own diary to ensure efficient, timely, high‑quality care for all children under our care.
* Providing spectacle dispensing, repairs, replacements and follow‑ups to your caseload.
* Supporting the special schools service manager by planning clinics, liaising with schools to book rooms, obtaining parental consent, booking appointment diaries for optometrists, responding to enquiries, and delivering staff inset training on eye care and vision.
Benefits
* Fully paid essential training, including a 15‑point module with City, St. George’s University of London.
* Competitive bonus schemes and annual excellence awards.
* Long‑service awards every 5 years.
* Generous holiday entitlement (33 days pro‑rata plus bank holidays, increasing to 41 days with long service).
* Enhanced family‑friendly pay and paid fertility leave.
* Organisational sick pay up to 12 weeks.
Safeguarding and Promoting Welfare
SeeAbility commits to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support and expects all staff to uphold this commitment and have a strong understanding of their safeguarding responsibilities.
Safer Recruitment
All successful applicants will undergo:
* Criminal background check through the Disclosure and Barring Service where appropriate.
* Documentary evidence to confirm identity, current address and right to work in the UK.
* Health declaration to confirm medical suitability for the role.
* Professional references to confirm satisfactory conduct and relevant experience.
Diversity and Equality
SeeAbility is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from individuals of all identities, including those from under‑represented groups and who have a disability or neurodivergent condition. We are a Disability Confident employer.
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