Join our Team as Special School Dispensing Optician
Location London school sites/ home
Salary £30,000 per annum with SeeAbility benefits + all fees and travel expenses paid + company pension
Hours Full Time (37.5 hours- Monday to Friday)
Contract Permanent
Start Date September 2025
Essential Ability to attend multiple schools in your London region is required, as well as a full driving license and regular access to a car
About You
This is an exciting opportunity for a full-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, school staff, 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?
The successful candidate would work 4-5 school days (20-25 hours) during term time, managing clinics across your caseload, maintaining an efficient diary, and providing high-quality care. Responsibilities also include providing spectacle dispensing, repairs, replacements, and follow-ups. During school holidays, you will support the service manager in planning clinics, liaising with schools, booking rooms, gaining parental consent, and providing eye care training to staff.
*Please see the attached job description for detailed information involving the role.
About us
SeeAbility, formerly The Royal School for the Blind, is one of the UK's oldest disability charities, celebrating 225 years of supporting people with learning disabilities, autism, complex needs, and sight loss since 1799. We support individuals across supported-living, residential care, and provide specialist eye-care services, helping people live ambitious lives and achieve their potential.
SeeAbility Total Rewards Package includes fully paid training, funded professional qualifications, annual awards, development discussions, leadership development, generous holiday entitlement, flexible working, bonus schemes, discounts, pension, and wellbeing support. We are committed to safe, fair, and inclusive recruitment practices, safeguarding all those we support, and creating a diverse workplace.
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