Role Description
Join our team as a Special School Dispensing Optician - Mobile - SEN Services at SeeAbility.
Location: Hybrid - London school sites / home
Salary: £31,500 per annum with SeeAbility benefits plus 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 London region
* Full driving license and regular access to a car
About You
This is an opportunity for a full-time or 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 eye care team, school staff, and under the guidance of the special schools service manager and dispensing optician clinical lead.
Ability to attend multiple schools in your London region is required, as well as a full driving license and regular access to a car.
What will you be doing?
* Work 4-5 school days (20-25 hours) in the school setting during term time.
* Manage your own diary to ensure clinics run smoothly across your school caseload.
* Provide spectacle dispensing, repairs, replacements and follow-ups for your caseload.
* Assist with planning of clinics, liaising with schools to book rooms and obtain parent consent, and booking appointment diaries for yourself and the optometrists.
* Respond to parent and school enquiries and offer training on eye care to teaching staff.
About Us
SeeAbility is a disability charity focused on supporting people with learning disabilities, autism, and complex needs, including sight loss. We offer person-centred support across supported living and residential care, and provide specialist eye-care services for children and adults, helping people gain paid employment where possible. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Safer Recruitment
We conduct DBS checks, Right to Work, Health Declarations, and references as part of onboarding, in accordance with Care Quality Commission requirements. These checks are completed prior to offering a start date at SeeAbility.
Diversity
SeeAbility welcomes applications from all identities, including those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process. Some roles may be exempt under Equality Act 2010 (Schedule 9, Part 1) due to genuine occupational requirements.
Note: This job posting includes several boilerplate lines and is part of SeeAbility’s broader job postings network.
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