Optometrist opportunities – Specsavers Melbourne, VIC

5 January 2023

Optometrist opportunities – Specsavers Melbourne, VIC

Due to exciting growth along with number of upcoming expansions, Specsavers have opened several new Optometrist opportunities across Melbourne.

About the roles:

  • Roster agreed in advance so you can plan your personal life
  • Place you in one store where you won’t be moved around
  • Flexible working options such as part-time, fixed term or locum work
  • Excellent opportunities for career development and progression – including pathway to Partnership
  • Give you access to the latest technology and equipment (including OCT in every store)
  • Competitive salary packages on offer – including PII, AHPRA, CPD allowance and bonuses and incentives

What is on offer for a Graduate Optometrist?

Your Graduate Recruitment Consultant can discuss the packages available 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 (0) 429 783 450 or leah.coulter@specsavers.com or click here to see what a Day in the life of a Specsavers Optom looks like.

If you are a final year student or recent graduate, please contact your Graduate Recruitment Consultant or email apac.graduateteam@specsavers.com