At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide life-changing eye care support to young people in schools across the Isle of Wight.
- Company: Join SeeAbility, a compassionate organisation dedicated to improving lives through eye care.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, generous holiday, and extensive training opportunities.
- Other info: Work-life balance with no weekends and remote work during school holidays.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in students' lives while enjoying a flexible work environment.
- Qualifications: Must be a qualified dispensing optician with a full driving licence.
The predicted salary is between 31500 - 31500 £ per year.
Join our Team as Special School Dispensing Optician – Mobile- SEN Services
Location: Schools across Isle of Wight
Salary: £31,500 per annum with SeeAbility benefits, professional fees and travel expenses paid, and company pension.
Hours: Full Time (37.5 hours – Monday to Friday) or Part Time (negotiable).
Contract: Permanent.
Essential
- Ability to attend multiple schools across the Isle of Wight.
- Full driving licence.
- Regular access to a car.
About You
This is an exciting opportunity for a 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 Isle of Wight schools and will work collaboratively with our established eye care team, the school staff, and under the guidance of the special schools service manager and dispensing optician clinical lead.
What will you be doing?
You will work 4‑5 school days (20‑25 hours) during term time and the rest from home. You are responsible for running clinics across your designated caseload, managing your diary under the supervision of the service manager and dispensing optician clinical lead. This includes providing spectacle dispensing, repairs, replacements, and follow‑ups. During full‑time work and school holidays, you will support the special schools service manager with service planning, booking clinic rooms, obtaining parental consent, arranging appointments for yourself and optometrists, responding to inquiries, and providing teaching staff inset training on eye care and vision.
Benefits
- Fully paid essential training (including a 15‑point Module with City St Georges University of London).
- Annual excellence awards.
- Long‑service awards every five years.
- Development discussions to discuss progress and future.
- Leadership development academy.
- No weekends and work from home during school holidays.
- 33 days holiday (pro‑rata), increasing to 41 days with long service.
- Life events leave.
- Organisational sick pay of two weeks after six months, increasing to 12 weeks over first three 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 many shops, restaurants, and activities.
- Access to tickets for Good.
- Employer contributory pension scheme.
- Refer a friend and receive £600.
- Paid DBS and renewals.
- Advance pay scheme and high‑interest saving scheme via Wage Stream App.
- Cycle to Work scheme.
- Life assurance of 2x annual salary.
- Free 24/7 employee assistance programme for advice and support.
- 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 uphold this commitment and have a strong understanding of their roles and responsibilities in safeguarding.
Safer Recruitment
A criminal background check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (where appropriate). Documentary evidence to confirm identity, current address, and right to work in the UK. Health declaration to ensure medical suitability. References confirming satisfactory conduct in current or previous employment relating to health or social care, or children or vulnerable adults. These checks will be carried out at the applicant's cost, completed prior to a formal job offer.
Diversity
SeeAbility welcomes applications from individuals of all identities, including those from underrepresented groups and individuals with a disability or neurodivergent condition. We are a Disability Confident employer. In exceptional circumstances, the exempt from the Equality Act 2010 (Schedule 9, Part 1) may apply as a genuine occupational requirement.
Dispensing Optician in Tonbridge employer: SeeAbility
Join SeeAbility as a Special School Dispensing Optician and experience a fulfilling career dedicated to making a difference in the lives of young people across the Isle of Wight. With a strong commitment to employee wellbeing, we offer generous benefits including fully paid training, flexible working arrangements, and a supportive work culture that prioritises professional growth and development. Enjoy a rewarding role with no weekends, ample holiday, and access to various discounts and wellness programmes, all while contributing to a meaningful cause in a non-commercial setting.
