Optometrist – Taupō

Specsavers Taupō is looking for an optometrist to join our vibrant team at the start of 2025! If you’re considering a career move, we’d love to hear from you!

Why Specsavers Taupō?

Taupō offers the perfect blend of professional opportunity and a relaxed lifestyle. With a growing community and thriving tourism sector, there’s strong demand for healthcare services.

Enjoy affordable living, a peaceful environment, and endless outdoor activities like hiking, fishing, and cycling. The town’s excellent quality of life, low-stress pace, and proximity to larger cities make it an ideal place to live and work.

About the role: 

• Competitive salary package based on experience
• Work in a three-test room store with a bubbly team culture!
• Gain exposure to a wide range of pathology
• Work alongside other experienced optometrists in a supportive 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

For a confidential chat, contact Fatemah Alfadli on 027 351 4590 or on Fatemah.alfadli@specsavers.com

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