Join our team as a Special School Dispensing Optician - Mobile - SEN Services.
Location: Hybrid - London school sites / home
Salary: £30,000 per annum with SeeAbility benefits, all professional fees and travel expenses paid, and a company pension.
Hours: Full Time (37.5 hours, Monday to Friday) or Part Time (negotiable)
Contract: Permanent
Essential requirements: Ability to attend multiple schools in your London region, a full driving license, and regular access to a car.
Welcome Bonus: Up to £600
About the role: This is an exciting opportunity for a full-time or part-time dispensing optician to work in a non-commercial, clinically challenging setting, providing complex and life-changing support with spectacles to young people in our NHS special school eyecare service. You will manage your own caseload of London schools, working collaboratively with our eye care team, school staff, and under the guidance of the service manager and clinical lead. You will work 4-5 school days during term time, ensuring smooth clinic operations, managing your diary, and providing spectacle dispensing, repairs, replacements, and follow-ups. During school holidays, you will support the service manager with clinic planning, liaising with schools, booking appointments, and providing training on eye care.
About us: SeeAbility, formerly The Royal School for the Blind, is one of the UK's oldest disability charities, celebrating over 225 years of pioneering support. We support people with learning disabilities, autism, complex needs, and sight loss, providing person-centred care, specialist eye care, and employment support.
Our benefits include:
* Fully paid training, including a 15-point module with City St Georges University of London
* Annual excellence awards and long service recognition
* Development discussions and leadership development opportunities
* No weekends, with work from home during school holidays and outside hours
* 33 days holiday (pro-rata), increasing with service
* Time off for life events, sick pay, family-friendly pay, fertility leave, carers leave
* Monthly bonus scheme, discounts via Blue Light Card, cashback offers, and access to Tickets for Good
* Employer pension scheme, refer-a-friend bonus, paid DBS and renewals, and pay schemes via Wage Stream
* Wellbeing support including cycle to work, life assurance, employee assistance, free eye tests, gym discounts, and a wellbeing coach
Safer recruitment: We conduct DBS checks, right to work, health declarations, and references to ensure safety and compliance.
Diversity: We welcome applications from all backgrounds, including those with disabilities or neurodivergence, and provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
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