Domiciliary Optometrist – Full or Part Time

Location: West London – Ealing, Acton and surrounding areas
Basic Salary: £70,000 FTE
Realistic OTE: £74,200 FTE
Hours: Full-time or part-time, Monday to Friday
Daily Hours: Approximately 9:00am–6:00pm
Patients: Approximately 10–11 per working day
Car Required: No

Excellent earnings without a high-volume clinic

Insightful Recruitment is working with a well-established and growing domiciliary eyecare provider to recruit an Optometrist for its West London territory.

Both full-time and part-time applications are welcomed. Part-time days can be discussed according to your availability, with salary calculated pro rata against the £70,000 full-time package.

Alongside the basic salary, the position offers an achievable performance-related monthly bonus:

• £70,000 FTE basic salary

• A £350 monthly bonus provides an additional £4,200 per year

• Realistic full-time OTE of £74,200

• Top performers can achieve approximately £700 per month in bonus

• This provides an additional £8,400 per year

• Top full-time earning potential of £78,400

Bonus earnings are performance-related. Part-time bonus earnings will depend on performance and the number of days worked.

The opportunity

This role offers the benefits and earning potential of domiciliary optometry without excessive daily travel.

Patient routes are carefully planned within compact local areas. Most appointments are only five to ten minutes—or approximately one mile—apart.

You will typically see around 10–11 patients on each working day, rather than the 20 or more appointments often expected within a busy practice.

The appointment split is approximately:

• 70% individual home visits

• 30% care-home appointments

• First appointment normally around 9:00am

• Final appointment normally around 5:30pm

• Monday-to-Friday working

You will work in partnership with an experienced Domiciliary Optical Assistant, who will drive between appointments and support the wider patient journey.

You do not need to own or drive a car. Where required, you can travel to an agreed local station and be collected by your Optical Assistant.

Training and support

Previous domiciliary experience is not essential.

You will receive approximately two to three weeks of structured, practical training from an experienced domiciliary Optometrist before working independently.

Continued support includes:

• An established community of domiciliary Optometrists

• Internal CPD

• Ongoing clinical support and development

• Guidance with unusual or complex clinical cases

• Training in adapting eye examinations for patients with additional needs

• Regular communication with experienced clinical colleagues

Although you will work independently once trained, you will remain part of a supportive clinical team.

About you

You must be a GOC-registered Optometrist with strong clinical and communication skills.

Ideally, you will have at least one year’s post-qualification experience. However, newly qualified Optometrists and those with approximately six months’ experience may also be considered if they demonstrate the required confidence, clinical competence and communication skills.

You should be:

• A confident and compassionate communicator

• Comfortable supporting elderly and vulnerable patients

• Clinically competent and able to adapt your testing approach

• Patient, calm and reassuring

• Comfortable working away from a fixed testing room

• Able to build rapport with patients and their families

• Reliable, professional and well organised

• Commercially aware while maintaining a patient-led approach

• Open to training, coaching and continued development

Package and benefits

• £70,000 FTE basic salary

• Realistic full-time OTE of £74,200

• Top full-time earning potential of £78,400

• Full-time or part-time opportunities

• Monday-to-Friday working

• Approximately 11 patients per working day

• Compact local patient routes

• No requirement to own or drive a car

• 28 days’ annual leave, including bank holidays, calculated pro rata for part-time hours

• GOC fees paid

• Pension scheme

• Medical cover available

• Two to three weeks of structured domiciliary training

• Internal CPD and ongoing clinical support

• Long-term career opportunity within a growing service

This position would suit an Optometrist who wants to move away from high-volume testing and routine weekend work while maintaining excellent earning potential and delivering genuinely personal patient care.

To apply or arrange a confidential conversation, contact Rachel at Insightful Recruitment:

Email: info@insightful-recruitment.com
Telephone: 07537 158 178