Full- Time Experienced Optometrist Opportunity – Specsavers Gympie, QLD

Full- Time  Optometrist Opportunity – Specsavers Gympie, QLD

Specsavers Gympie is currently seeking a dedicated full-time optometrist to join their team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced professional to work in a well-established practice that prides itself on delivering exceptional eye care to the community. The role offers a supportive work environment, opportunities for professional growth. If you’re passionate about providing quality care and want to make a positive impact on the Gympie community, Specsavers Gympie would love to hear from you!

About the store and role:

• Full-time role available, offering stability and consistency in your career path
• Work in a four-test room store equipped with market-leading equipment, including OCT free of charge for every patient
• Enjoy a supportive and collaborative work environment
• Benefit from regular, in person CPD events, providing opportunities for ongoing learning and skill enhancement to collaborate closely
• Engage with a primarily older demographic, with a significant prevalence of diabetic patients, allowing you to focus on pathology, chronic disease management, and therapeutics

What is on offer for a Graduate Optometrist?  

Your Graduate Recruitment Consultant can discuss the package available for this store and potential additional incentive options such as allowances, extra annual leave, etc.  

As a newly qualified Optometrist on the Graduate Program, you will experience –  

• Two-day Graduate Induction Event held in Melbourne 
• Ongoing in-person professional development events  
• In-region social engagement & CPD events  
• One-to-one mentorship in store with your Mentor  
• Wide graduate support network  
• Annual CPD allowance and AHPRA registration 

This store is a star performer under our ‘Specsavers: The Place to Work’ initiative, offering the following key benefits to all store team members:

• Birthday leave
• Volunteer Leave
• Access to Specsavers Perks staff discount program
• Two free pairs of glasses each year
• 30% off glasses voucher for family and friends each year

Why choose Specsavers?

• Specsavers are rated the market leader for eye tests, and the retailer of choice for contact lenses in Australia and New Zealand
• We are on a continual mission to transform eye health by: eliminating preventable vision loss and blindness, including Glaucoma and Diabetes, through improved prevention and early detection
• Specsavers optometrists are picking up 90% of avoidable blindness in the community
• Proud to have well and truly reached 700,000 KeepSight registrations
• Our stores have a 93% Glaucoma detection rate
• 1 in 5 kids are on Myopia management
• Specsavers is proud to announce we’re the 6th best place to work in Australia in 2024, and have been an accredited ‘Great Place to Work’ organisation for the past four years
• Since 2011, Specsavers has donated $7.8 million dollars to The Fred Hollows Foundation to help fund vital projects that improve the delivery of eye health services, strengthen health systems, and build a workforce for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to help end avoidable blindness

For a confidential chat, contact Leah Coulter on +61 (4) 2978 3450 or leah.coulter@specsavers.com

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