Optical Assistant Apprentice

Greet and welcome customers in a warm, professional manner. General reception duties, including maintaining patient confidentiality and complying with GDPR standards. Perform pre-screening, dispensing of spectacles, contact lens instruction, adjustments and minor repairs of spectacles.

Training Outcome:

The successful candidate will work towards achieving a Level 3 qualification in optical and gain experience in a busy optical practice.

Upon completion of the level 3 qualification, you will be an experienced and qualified optical assistant, and as such, you can continue building up skills that will always be in demand. Career breaks and part-time working are often possible.

You could go on to acquire higher level optical qualifications such as:

Ophthalmic Dispensing- Become a qualified Dispensing Optician. Contact lens Optician - fit contact lenses. Low vision specialist - help people where traditional spectacles will not suffice. Supply low vision aids, magnifiers, advice on improving contrast and on other non-optical aids such as bump-ons. Optometry courses - carry out full eye examinations and issue prescriptions. Clinical representative- visiting practices introducing new frame ranges and Ophthalmic lenses. In-practice trainer - You could use your knowledge to train others.

Other non-clinical roles:

Practice Management, you could complete a management course. Practice ownership, you could go into business yourself, partnership or franchise.

Employer Description:

Boots Opticians Ltd. operates a chain of ophthalmic and dispensing optician stores in the United Kingdom

Working Hours :
Monday to Saturday, 8.50am to 5.30pm.

Skills:
Communication skills,Attention to detail,Organisation skills,Customer care skills,Team working,Initiative