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Role Description
Dispensing Optician – Special School Dispensing Optician – Mobile – SEN Services.
Location
London school sites / Home.
Salary and Benefits
£31,500 per annum with SeeAbility benefits + all professional fees and travel expenses paid + company pension.
Hours and Contract
Full Time (37.5 hours – Monday to Friday) or Part Time (negotiable).
Permanent contract.
Essential Requirements
* Ability to attend multiple schools in your London region is required.
* Full driving licence 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.
What Will You Be Doing?
* Work 4-5 school days (20-25 hours) in the school setting during term time.
* Ensure smooth running of clinics across your defined school caseload, managing your own diary under the supervision of the service manager and dispensing optician clinical lead.
* Provide spectacle dispensing, repairs, replacements and follow ups to your caseload.
* Support the special schools service manager in ensuring the smooth running of the service, liaising with schools to book clinic rooms, gain consent from parents, book appointment diaries for yourself and the optometrists, respond to parent and school enquiries and offer and provide teaching staff inset training on eye care and vision.
Additional Information
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.
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 your identity, current address, and the right to work in the UK.
* Health Declaration to ensure that you are medically suitable for the role you have been offered.
* References will be obtained to ensure satisfactory evidence of conduct in current or previous employment concerning health or social care, or children or vulnerable adults.
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 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 offer any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role itself to ensure a fair and equitable experience for all candidates.
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