Role Description
Join our Team as Special School Dispensing Optician—Mobile – SEN Services. Location: London and the home counties with urgent need in South West London. Salary: £31,500 per annum with SeeAbility benefits plus professional fees and travel expenses paid, company pension. Hours: Full Time (37.5 hrs – Monday to Friday) or Part Time (negotiable). Contract: Permanent. Essential: Ability to attend multiple schools in your London region, 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 eye‑care service. You will have your own caseload of London schools and will work collaboratively with our established eye‑care team, school staff, and under the guidance of the special schools service manager and dispensing optician clinical lead.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
* Work 4–5 school days (20–25 hours) in the school setting during term time and the rest of the time from home.
* Ensure the smooth running of clinics across your defined school caseload, including managing your own diary under the supervision of the service manager and dispensing optician clinical lead.
* Provide spectacle dispensing, repairs, replacements, and follow‑ups for your caseload.
* Support the special schools service manager in ensuring the smooth running of the service, including liaising with schools, booking clinic rooms, gaining parental consent, booking appointment diaries for yourself and the optometrists, responding to parent and school enquiries, and offering training to teaching staff on eye care and vision.
* Maintain accurate records and report any issues to the service manager and clinical lead.
Qualifications / Essential Conditions
* Full driving licence and regular access to a car.
* Willingness to travel to multiple schools across the South West London region.
* Experience in dispensing optician practice (preferred, not mandatory).
* Knowledge of NHS policies and procedures (preferred).
Benefits
* SeeAbility Total Rewards Package.
* Fully paid essential training, 15‑point Module with City, St. George's University of London.
* Annual excellence awards, long‑service awards every 5 years.
* Development discussions and leadership development academy.
* Work‑life balance: no weekends, working from home during school holidays and outside school hours.
* 33 days holiday (pro‑rata) including bank holidays, increasing to 41 days with long service.
* Organisational sick pay: 2 weeks after 6 months, increasing to 12 weeks over first 3 years.
* Enhanced family‑friendly pay, paid fertility leave, carers leave.
* £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.
* Paid DBS and renewals.
* Advance pay scheme and high‑interest saving scheme via Wage Stream App.
* Cycle to Work scheme.
* Life assurance of 2× annual salary.
* Free 24/7 employee assistance programme, free eye test, discounted gym membership.
* Dedicated in‑house wellbeing coach.
Safeguarding and Promoting Welfare
SeeAbility is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support. All staff are expected to uphold this commitment and have a strong understanding of their roles and responsibilities in safeguarding.
Recruitment Checks
* Criminal background check through the Disclosure and Barring Service where appropriate.
* Documentary evidence of identity, current address, and right to work in the UK.
* Health declaration to ensure medical suitability for the role.
* References to evidence satisfactory conduct in current or previous employment relating to health or social care, or children or vulnerable adults.
Diversity
SeeAbility is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from individuals of all identities, including those from under‑represented groups and those with a disability or neuro‑divergent condition. We are a Disability Confident employer and offer reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role.
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