Job Title: Qualified Dispensing Optician
Location: North Manchester
Hours: Full-time or four days per week | Fixed working days | Saturdays required
Salary: Competitive and negotiable depending on experience
Essential: GOC-registered Dispensing Optician with at least 12 months’ recent experience in a UK optical practice
Qualified Dispensing Optician
Are you a commercially confident Qualified Dispensing Optician looking for a friendly, supportive practice with fixed working days and no late nights?
We are recruiting for a large, established optical practice in North Manchester. You will join a welcoming and supportive team where colleagues work together to provide an excellent patient experience.
The practice is looking for a QDO who can combine strong technical and product knowledge with a warm, needs-led approach. You will take the time to understand each patient’s lifestyle and visual requirements before recommending the most appropriate frame, lens and coating options.
The Role
- Delivering accurate, patient-focused dispensing
- Understanding patients’ lifestyles, prescriptions and visual requirements
- Recommending suitable frames, lenses, coatings and additional options
- Explaining product features and benefits clearly
- Supporting complex and higher-value prescriptions
- Taking accurate measurements and helping to reduce avoidable remakes
- Providing technical guidance to patients and colleagues
- Contributing towards individual and practice performance targets
- Supporting the wider patient journey and shop-floor team
- Maintaining high professional and clinical standards
- Building trusted, long-term relationships with patients
About You
To be considered, you must be a fully qualified Dispensing Optician, currently registered with the GOC, with at least 12 months’ recent experience working in a UK optical practice.
Applications without the required UK optical experience will not be progressed.
You will also need:
- A patient-focused and needs-led approach
- Commercial awareness and experience working towards targets
- The ability to make suitable recommendations without over-selling
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- A positive, flexible and team-focused attitude
- Availability to work Saturdays
The Package
- Competitive salary, negotiable depending on experience
- Full-time or four-day working pattern considered
- Individual bonus opportunity
- Fixed working days
- No late nights
- Free parking
- 50% friends and family discount
- Employee discount scheme
- Support with further qualifications and professional development
- Friendly and supportive working environment
This is a fantastic opportunity for a QDO who wants to become an important part of a successful practice while continuing to develop professionally.
To apply, submit your CV or contact Rachel at Insightful Recruitment for a confidential conversation.