Optometrist Opportunity- Wellington
29 November 2024
Specsavers Lower Hutt is looking for a dedicated Optometrist to join our vibrant team. In this role, you’ll assist customers in finding the perfect eyewear solutions while providing exceptional eye care services.
Why choose Lower Hutt as a destination to work and live in? Lower Hutt offers affordable housing, stunning natural beauty, and a family-friendly community. Enjoy easy access to Wellington City, excellent public transport, and a vibrant cultural scene. With great schools, outdoor activities, and a relaxed lifestyle, it’s the perfect place to call home!
About the store and role:
- Full time opportunity – working 5 days including Sundays
- Work in a 5-test room store equipped with market-leading equipment, including OCT free of charge for every patient
- Gain experience working with a diverse patient base
- Enjoy a supportive and collaborative work environment
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
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
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 Fatemah Alfadli on Fatemah.alfadli@specsavers.com or on 027 351 4590
click here to see what a Day in the life of a Specsavers Optometrist looks like.
If you are a final year student or recent graduate, please contact your Graduate Recruitment Consultant or email anz.graduateoptometry@specsavers.com
