Optometrist – Hastings

Optometrist Opportunity – Specsavers Hastings, New Zealand

Looking for your next step as an Optometrist in 2025? Specsavers Hastings is the perfect opportunity! Located in the stunning Hawke’s Bay region, it offers a fantastic work environment with mentorship and professional growth opportunities.

Surrounded by world-class wineries, beautiful beaches, and outdoor adventures, Hastings is a paradise for nature and culture lovers. With its rich Māori heritage, sunny climate, and welcoming, family-friendly atmosphere, the town provides the ideal setting for both work and lifestyle. Whether you’re an experienced optometrist or just starting as a graduate, join us in Hastings for a fulfilling career in a vibrant community!

About the role: 

• This vacancy is open for a part-time or full-time optometrist – Flexibility with the roster is offered
• Early 2025 start
• Competitive salary package, with a relocation allowance and bonuses!
• Work in a seven-test room store equipped with market-leading equipment, including OCT free of charge for every patient. This store also has a Topography
• Specsavers Hastings specializes in Glaucoma management and hard contact lenses
• Gain experience working with a diverse patient base
• Enjoy a supportive and collaborative work environment

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

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