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Dispensing Optician
Dispensing Optician – Job Description
What You’ll Be Doing
As a qualified Dispensing Optician, you will provide a high level of customer care and deliver expert advice to enhance our customers' experience and ensure they return.
You will work within one of our stores, reporting directly to the Store Manager.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide clinical support in-store for regulated dispensing
- Inspire and mentor the Optical team by sharing Expert knowledge to deliver top-tier service
- Listen carefully to customers’ needs and offer specialist advice tailored to their requirements
- Assist customers in selecting the correct eyewear, ensuring the best quality product suited to their needs
- Support the team in maintaining an efficient operational workflow, adhering to legal business practices
- Offer expert guidance to patients with specialist requirements
What You’ll Need
Must-haves:
- Registration with the General Optical Council (GOC)
- Commitment to continuous professional development (CPD) upon GOC requirements
Nice-to-haves:
- Ability to embrace new technologies
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Career Opportunities – Where Your Brilliance Can Take You
At Boots Opticians, we empower career growth across multiple paths:
- Clinical and non-clinical leadership roles
- Potential to become an owner of a Boots Opticians store through the Franchise Academy
We’ll provide the tools and support to help you chart your own progress.
Rewards & Benefits
Designed to reward dedication and enable work-life balance:
- Boots Retirement Savings Plan
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Generous employee discounts
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave, including a supportive gift card for expectant/and/or adopting parents
- Flexible benefits scheme, including:
- Buying additional holiday
- Discounted gym memberships
- Life assurance
- Activity passes
- 24/7 access to free counselling support via TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme
- Discover more about our broader benefits and rewards via MyBoosts—our platform to help you thrive.
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About Us
At Boots Opticians, we believe that seeing the world clearly opens doors. Our purpose is to empower everyone—both our customers and colleagues—to realise boundless potential. As a proud equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.
Join us, and be brilliant with Boots.
What’s Next?
- Application outcome: Our team will contact you promptly to discuss progress. We are open to discussions about part-time and job-sharing arrangements, even when roles are advertised as full-time.
- Reasonable adjustments are available during the application and interview process if required.
This role requires completion of a pre-employment check post-offer. Depending on your location, you may be required to submit:
- DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service)
- PVG (Protection of Vulnerable Groups), or
- Access NI Check
We are a Ban the Box employer, meaning we evaluate applicants based on merit—criminal convictions will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
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