About the Role
To be employed in this role you must be over the age of 18 and pass an enhanced safeguarding check.
Our stores operate 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, with a wide variety of shift patterns. We offer flexible working to fit around your lifestyle, but late and weekend work is a requirement of the role and we may need to be flexible with your work pattern.
Responsibilities
Our in-store opticians are hugely popular with customers and will expect warmth, friendliness, confidence, relaxed discussion of ocular health, quick resolution of problems and guidance to the right products.
You will be responsible for preparing patients for their eye examination, explaining each stage of the eye test, completing pre‑screening examinations, booking appointments, dispensing spectacles and contact lenses, dealing with repairs and adjustments, and ensuring stock has been received by the supplier.
We will provide training to become a star colleague, including dispensing glasses, handling repairs, adjustments, glasses verification, teaching contact lens insertion and removals, and options for the Asda Optical Step In programme or Level 3 Optical Assistant Apprenticeship.
Progress opportunities include becoming a GOC registered dispensing optician via the Level 6 Apprenticeship.
About You
You are naturally friendly, highly organised, good with computers, detail-oriented, communicative, love problem solving, confident with numbers, and passionate about helping people and giving customers a great healthcare experience.
Benefits
* Colleague discount: 15% off your shopping at Asda from day 1 for you and a nominated user
* Discounted rates and special offers on Asda services such as Mobile, Pharmacy, Opticians, Personal Loan, Pet Insurance, Travel Insurance, Travel Money, Tyres, Breakdown Cover
* Stream: access to flexible pay, income tracker, financial coaching, exclusive savings account and much more
* Company pension
* Wellbeing: 24/7 virtual GP, 24/7 EAP service, free counselling, legal, mortgage, cancer and bereavement support
* Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – inclusion and celebration of differences
* Excellent parental leave policies: maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, fertility treatment support
* Colleague recognition programme
* Special offers and discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking to theme parks and cinemas
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