Student Optician

**Full Job Description**

**Student Opticians - A new exciting opportunity**

**Markham, ON - CF Markville**

**Your Student Optician opportunity**

You chose a career in dispensing for a reason - to make a difference by ensuring that every customer leaves your store with an eyecare regime that really meets their needs.

We’re with you. We wouldn’t be where we are without our dedicated dispensing teams to interpret prescriptions, advise customers on the most suitable options, and fit their new glasses beautifully. We’re here to elevate your role as a Student Optician and to become a Registered Optician by providing you with the tools and support you need so you can do what you love most - providing quality eyecare and eye wear to customers.
- **Product Excellence**:We use the latest clinical technology, rigorous testing, and extensive quality assurance processes to develop our lenses so that you can support your customers and patients with a full range of top-quality products that you’re proud to offer
- **Clinical Excellence**: We rely on your clinical expertise to ensure we deliver clinical excellence - that’s why we’re putting contact lens practitioners at the heart of contact lens dispensing. You’ll have also access to leading equipment, such as OCT for all patients, to ensure that all patients get the best accessible, quality eyecare
- **Support**: Student Opticians are supported and empowered by Specsavers, to practice within their full scope of their qualification, while being encouraged to further their career growth
- **Professional Development**: As experts versed in optics, opticians will provide mentorship to student opticians and the retail team, to assist with the development of our people and to continuously deliver high standards of services.

**What are the benefits of joining Specsavers as a Student Optician?**
- Being part of a company that values Student Opticians as a key piece of our business - Our vision is to elevate the role of Opticians by putting opticianry at the heart of our business, along with optometry
- A commitment to a continued investment in your professional development as a Student Optician
- An opportunity to set a benchmark for patient care and grow your clinic by earning patient trust, long-term care, and referrals
- *Extended health benefits, *3 weeks vacation, 6 sick days (PT and *FT), one paid volunteer day per year, and birthdays off
- Get your first 2 pairs of glasses free and enjoy discounted rates for additional Specsavers products

In addition to access to the latest clinical technology, training, and the opportunity to be with us from the start of our exciting Specsavers journey in Canada.

**What we’re looking for**

We’re all about providing you the training to become a Specsavers Optician to help you develop career skills and reach your aspirations.

Our very competitive wage, extended health benefits, and operating hours will be discussed at the interview.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

**Salary**: From $18.00-$22.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Paid time off
- Store discount
- Vision care

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend and/or Holidays

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Markham, ON: reliably to commute or plan to relocate.

Work Location: One location

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $18.00-$22.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Paid time off

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Markham, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location

Expected start date: 2023-02-06