Special School Dispensing Optician – Mobile – SEN Services
Key Details
* Location: London and the home counties with urgent need for South West London
* Salary: £31,500 per annum with SeeAbility 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 the South West London region, a full driving license and regular access to a car.
About You
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.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be expected to work 4–5 school days (20–25 hours) in the school setting during term time and the remainder of time from home. 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.
* Providing spectacle dispensing, repairs, replacements and follow-ups to your caseload.
* Supporting the special schools service manager with planning of clinics, liaising with schools to book clinic rooms and gain consent from parents, booking appointment diaries for yourself and the optometrists, responding to parent and school enquiries and providing teaching staff inset training on eye care and vision.
About Us
Registered as The Royal School for the Blind, SeeAbility is one of the oldest disability charities in the UK. This year we celebrate 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. We also 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.
Our Benefits
SeeAbility Total Rewards Package
* Fully paid essential training including a 15 point Module with City St George’s 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.
* Work‑life balance: No weekends plus working from home during school holidays and outside school hours.
* 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: Support and tools to help you make the right decisions about your future.
* Refer a friend and receive £600.
* Paid DBS and renewals.
* Advance pay scheme and high interest saving scheme through Wage Stream App for all our colleagues.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Life assurance of 2× annual salary.
* Free 24/7 employee assistance programme for advice and support.
* Free eye test.
* Discounted gym membership.
* Dedicated in‑house wellbeing coach for your team.
Safeguarding and Promoting Welfare
SeeAbility is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support. We expect all staff to uphold this commitment and have a strong understanding of their roles and responsibilities in safeguarding.
Safer Recruitment
As part of our safer recruitment procedures, we require the following checks for all successful applicants:
* A criminal background check through the Disclosure and Barring Service where appropriate.
* Documentary evidence to confirm identity, current address and the right to work in the UK.
* Health declaration to ensure medical suitability for the role.
* References to ensure satisfactory evidence of conduct in current or previous employment concerning health or social care, or children or vulnerable adults.
These checks will be carried out and completed prior to offering a date to start employment at SeeAbility’s expense.
Diversity
SeeAbility is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from individuals of all identities, including those from underrepresented groups and those who have a disability or neurodivergent condition. We are pleased to confirm that we are a Disability Confident employer.
We believe a diverse workforce drives innovation, creativity and success. Everyone’s unique experiences and views are appreciated and their opinions valued. We are happy to offer any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role itself to ensure a fair and equitable experience for all candidates.
In exceptional circumstances, the exempt from the Equality Act 2010 (Schedule 9, Part 1) which provides for the application of a genuine occupational requirement.
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