Optometrist
We’re the UK’s leading domiciliary eye care provider, and we change people’s lives every day. Are you ready to join us?
A unique company
As the UK's leading provider of optical care in care homes, we are searching for passionate optometrists to join us and make a real difference.
Driven by our belief that clinically excellent eye care should be accessible and affordable for all, we use the latest mobile technology and processes to change people's lives for the better.
We deliver our life-changing service right across the UK, supporting the NHS to provide vital eye care to people who may struggle to get to the high street unaided.
Following our recent partnership with Optimism Health Group, we are transforming our business to provide an even better service to our customers and even better rewards to our highly valued workforce.
A vital and rewarding role
We're on the lookout for an optometrist in or around Cardiff who wants to help us achieve our mission of changing people's lives through clinically excellent eye care.
This is an important hire for us as we have a waiting list of patients in the area who are eager to get access to our trusted at-home service.
We're a flexible employer, and you can choose the number of days you work to fit around family and other commitments - plus we never work weekends!
You will:
- Help around 15 patients each day, visiting them in their care homes along with a dedicated Dispensing Colleague.
- Be trusted to make autonomous decisions and valued for your expertise. Although you'll never be on your own as you can get support or a second opinion in minutes from our senior optometrist team at head office.
- Use the very latest equipment, including a digital fundus camera, mobile slit lamp, I-care tonometer and our industry-leading digital records system, which means no paperwork.
- Be supported with your CPD. We'll invest in you and give you the time to complete exams if required.
If you are looking for a new challenge and would value the opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives by providing clinically excellent optometry in their homes, then we'd love for you to be part of our journey.
The package
- Market-leading salary, starting from £60,000 per annum
- Up to £10,000 welcome bonus (Terms & Conditions apply)
- Strong bonus structure
- Support with College of Optometrists Higher Qualifications in their Professional Certificates programme
- Payment of your GOC fees
- Free CPD access
- Generous pension scheme, matched up to 4%
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Flexible contracts for full-time or part-time work
- The latest portable optometry kit – even a digital fundus camera
- 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)
- Employee discounts
- Weekends off
- A chance to change people's lives
- Career pathways
- Optometrist
- Locations
- Cardiff
Our Values Define Our Culture
"There's a culture here that I haven't experienced elsewhere, where nobody is out of bounds and everyone will happily pick up the phone to you when you need. There's a great camaraderie here." - Aman Purewal
Making a Real Difference
"Interacting with some of the most vulnerable people in society and knowing that you can help them is a really nice feeling to have. The job satisfaction is second to none." - Sarab Laute
Get a Real Work/ Life Balance
"You don't have to work weekends, and once you're home, you're done for the day and you know you've made a difference. You get to change someone's life, and it's the best feeling in the world." - Emma James
About VISIONCALL LIMITED
At Visioncall we believe that regardless of a person’s age or needs they have the right to better sight.
We are dedicated to enabling and empowering individuals to see the world around them more clearly.
Our patients are some of the most vulnerable people in our society, and our specialist holistic approach to eye care means that they can benefit from being more engaged with the world around them, feel less isolated and be safer within it.
Optometrist
We’re the UK’s leading domiciliary eye care provider, and we change people’s lives every day. Are you ready to join us?
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