Job Description
Experienced Optical Assistant – Hucknall, Nottinghamshire
Are you a passionate, people focussed optical assistant looking for an environment in which to grow your career, surrounded by an award winning team? If so, Specsavers Hucknall might just be the home for you…
Based in Nottinghamshire, Hucknall is easily accessed from Nottingham city centre via the tram or train. With the M1 and A38 a stone’s throw away, commuting by car from local towns is easy. Hucknall opened over 20 years ago and has firmly embedded itself as a mainstay in the town, known for its first-class service, highly professional and knowledgeable team and dedication to supporting the local community. The store has seen significant investment over the past few years, expanding into the adjoining unit to create more space for our customers and colleagues alike and redesigning our retail space, to now feature bright, modern illuminated frame displays.
Alongside Hucknall the directors run another highly successful sister store in Retford, Nottinghamshire, and if variety appeals, the option is available to work across both stores, however this isn’t a requirement.
Our team
We’re a successful business and its all because of our amazing team. A shared passion for great service and doing right by the customer guides our journey. We’re looking for an experienced Optical Assistant that shares the same ethos, someone who thinks going above and beyond to impress our customers is all in a day’s work, someone who is committed to perfecting the customer journey and upskilling themselves.
Our team have a long history of success, notably our Lab team were recently finalists for the Specsavers “Lab of the Year” award, the year prior Hucknall won the “Excellence in the Community” award and in 2024 the Hucknall team were finalists for the “Optical Assistant Team of the Year” award at the prestigious “Optician awards”.
Your career
We have a proven track record of looking after our people and developing their talents. With most of our Optical Assistants gaining their level 3 & 4 dispensing qualifications and some going on to study to become qualified Dispensing Opticians, Contact Lens Opticians and even Optometrists. For those who do not have a clinical passion, our management development offer, which includes in house training as well as courses and qualifications accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), has seen many colleagues progress into leadership roles both in store and the wider Specsavers group. In fact, our current assistant manager, lab manager, store manager and one of our partners, all started in the business as an optical/lab assistant! Your future is in good hands in Hucknall.
What’s on offer
· Salary – from £12.91 - £13.21 per hour
· 37.5 hours per week to include 1 weekend day or alternate weekends
· 28 days holiday plus your birthday off!
· A private medical and dental cash plan
· Specsavers Perks - our discounted benefits scheme
· A paid “volunteering’ day each year
· WeCare – a confidential employee support service, that includes free; counselling, virtual GP service, legal and financial help, plus more
· Outstanding clinical and professional development opportunities
· Additional annual leave for long service
What we’re looking for?
If Hucknall is starting to sound like a store you could call home, here are some of the skills we are looking for:
· Previous optical experience as an Optical Advisor or Dispensing Assistant- dispensing both single vision and multifocal lenses, including high index lenses
· A strong baseline level of knowledge of dispensing and optics
· A people person, who loves to chat to customers and work with a friendly team
· Great teamwork, we do our fair share and help each other out
· Confidence in technology, you don’t need to know how to use our operating system, but general IT skills are a must
· A desire to develop and learn, not everyone who joins us wants to complete professional training, this is no issue, but optics is a changing world and continuous development and improvement is essential
· Excellent communication skills, talking to customers is what we do!
Still interested? Does this sound like you? Please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you.