Part-Time Optometrist Opportunity – Shirley, New Zealand

7 October 2024

Are you passionate about eye care and customer service? Specsavers Shirley 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.

About the store and role:

  • Part-time opportunity – 2 to 3 days including weekends
  • Work in a four-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
  • Annual CPD allowance

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

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