Join our Team as Special School Dispensing Optician - Mobile - SEN Services

About You

This is an exciting opportunity for a full-time/part-time dispensing optician to work in a non-commercial, clinically challenging setting, providing complex, creative, and often life-changing support with spectacles to young people as part of our NHS special school eyecare service. You will manage your own caseload of London schools and collaborate with our eye care team, school staff, and under the guidance of the service manager and clinical lead. Ability to attend multiple schools in your London region, a full driving license, and access to a car are required.

What will you be doing?

The successful candidate will work 4-5 school days (20-25 hours) during term time, managing clinics across your caseload, including diary management, ensuring high-quality care, and providing spectacle dispensing, repairs, and follow-ups. During holidays, support the service manager in clinic planning, liaising with schools, booking rooms, gaining parental consent, and offering training on eye care.

*Please see the attached job description for detailed information*

About us

SeeAbility, formerly The Royal School for the Blind, is one of the UK’s oldest disability charities, celebrating 225 years of support since 1799. We support people with learning disabilities, autism, complex needs, and sight loss, providing person-centred support, specialist eye care, and employment assistance to enable individuals to lead ambitious lives.

Our resources and expertise help people achieve things they never thought possible.

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Total Rewards Package

• Fully paid essential training, including a 15-point module with City St Georges University of London
• Annual excellence awards and long service recognition
• Development discussions and leadership development opportunities
• Work-life balance with no weekends, working from home during school holidays and outside hours
• 33 days holiday (pro-rata), increasing with service
• Life events leave, sick pay, family-friendly pay, and paid fertility leave
• Additional benefits: £500 monthly bonus, Blue Light Card discounts, cashback offers, pension scheme, referral bonuses, DBS paid, advance pay scheme, high-interest savings, cycle to work, life assurance, employee assistance, free eye tests, gym discounts, wellbeing coaching

SeeAbility is committed to safe, fair, and inclusive recruitment, requiring DBS checks, right to work, health declarations, and references prior to employment, in accordance with CQC standards. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, including those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions, with reasonable adjustments available during recruitment.