Optical Clinic Manager

FYidoctors is seeking a **Practice Coach** on a **f**ull-time interim term** basis at our **Nanaimo - Waddington practice.**

This team member will work a schedule of 40 hours per week. Our clinic is open Mondays through Saturdays. The ability to work select Saturdays is required. This is a term position through to approx. February 2026.

**How You’ll Benefit**
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Comprehensive rewards package
- Rapid and continued growth, ensuring a constantly challenging and rewarding environment
- A workplace culture where collaboration is fostered
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- FYihealth group aims to create a comprehensive rewards package to attract and retain top talent. The expected compensation for this position is $75,000-$84,000 per year, considering factors like experience, skills, and qualifications. Base pay is just one component of our overall Total Rewards offering. We look forward to speaking with you more about our continued dedication to our team's overall well-being and growth.

**Responsibilities and Accountabilities**:

- Responsible for managing all operational aspects within a specified practice to achieve excellent customer service, quality, cost, and delivery performance in line with company strategy, goals, and values
- Providing support and direction to enhance performance, skills, and knowledge of practice staff within the practices
- Coaching/mentoring - gives timely, specific feedback and helpful coaching and evaluates performance fairly and in accordance with company guidelines; adapts leadership approach to each staff member to inspire excellence. Recognizes and accurately identifies staffs’ unique skills and abilities, performance strengths, and development needs; provides challenging assignments and opportunities for development; provides training and job coaching
- Responsible for managing all operational aspects within a specified practice to achieve excellent customer service, quality, cost, and delivery performance in line with company strategy, goals, and values
- Providing support and direction to enhance performance, skills, and knowledge of practice staff within the practices
- Coaching/mentoring - gives timely, specific feedback and helpful coaching and evaluates performance fairly and in accordance with company guidelines; adapts leadership approach to each staff member to inspire excellence. Recognizes and accurately identifies staffs’ unique skills and abilities, performance strengths, and development needs; provides challenging assignments and opportunities for development; provides training and job coaching
- Leadership Development - works with Regional Coaches to provide leadership and management skills to enable the practice to meet its agreed aims and objectives within a profitable, efficient, safe, and effective working environment
- Fostering Teamwork - builds effective teams committed to organizational goals; created environmental conducive to teamwork; fosters the development of a common vision; provides clear direction and priorities
- Motivating/influencing Others - utilizes the diverse skills and abilities of the workforce by respecting and empowering others to achieve; creating enthusiasm; asserting own ideas and persuading others; gaining support and commitment from others
- Fostering open communication/listens to others - speaks clearly and expresses self well in front of patients, staff, in groups, and one-on-one conversations: creates an environment where open and direct expression of ideas and dialogue occurs
- Written Communication - conveys information clearly and effectively through formal and informal written documents
- Presentation - prepares and delivers clear, smooth presentations: presents self well in front of groups
- Practice Development - creating the best practice possible. So every minute of everyday Practice Coaches will be looking for ways to improve procedures and operations, making recommendations and working with employees to take action. They will ensure that key professional initiatives are delivered in a way that will optimize sales and customer care
- Marketing - administers ongoing FYi marketing efforts to inform current and potential patients regarding practice services and products available. Monitors effectiveness of such efforts through appropriate measures and review. This also includes adoption and embrace of the FYi brand; which entails working with Home Office to understand the brand and determining “best practices” to execute on the brand at the practice level
- Patient Care - supports and delivers the commitment to provide the best quality of eye care for our patients/customers
- Patient Relations
- demonstrates a desire to create value for all patients and to exceed their expectations; anticipate patient needs and takes action to exceed them; continually searches for ways to increase patient satisfaction

**Essential Skills**:

- College degree or equivalent exper