Optometrist

Optometrist Opportunity – Specsavers Emerald, QLD

Specsavers Emerald are currently on the lookout for an Optometrist to join their team. Our Emerald store prides itself on it’s wonderful team, who work closely together to provide excellent customer service. The hub of the Central QLD Highlands – Emerald has all the amenities of a big city, with a laid back, community feel.

Why Emerald?

• The opportunity to mentor graduates and final year optometry students
• Social and welcoming team to help you settle into the community
• Work with a mixed demographic including pathology
• Experienced retail support team
• Extremely loyal patient database
• 2-test room store with state of the art equipment – including OCT
• Rapidly growing small city located in the Central Highlands region of Queensland

What is on offer for a Graduate Optometrist?

Your Graduate Recruitment Consultant can discuss the package available for this store and potential additional incentive options such as allowances, extra annual leave, etc.

As a newly qualified Optometrist on the Graduate Program, you will experience

• $30k sign on bonus available!
• Two-day Graduate Induction Event held in Melbourne
• Ongoing in-person professional development events
• In-region social engagement & CPD events
• One-to-one mentorship in store with your Mentor
• Wide graduate support network
• Annual CPD allowance and AHPRA registration

This store is a star performer under our ‘Specsavers: The Place to Work’ initiative, offering the following key benefits to all store team members:

• Birthday leave
• Volunteer Leave
• Access to Specsavers Perks staff discount program
• Two free pairs of glasses each year
• 30% off glasses voucher for family and friends each year

Why choose Specsavers?

• Specsavers are rated the market leader for eye tests, and the retailer of choice for contact lenses in Australia and New Zealand
• We are on a continual mission to transform eye health by: eliminating preventable vision loss and blindness, including Glaucoma and Diabetes, through improved prevention and early detection
• Specsavers optometrists are picking up 90% of avoidable blindness in the community
• Proud to have well and truly reached 700,000 KeepSight registrations
• Our stores have a 93% Glaucoma detection rate
• 1 in 5 kids are on Myopia management
• Specsavers is proud to announce we’re the 8th best place to work in Australia in 2023, and have been an accredited ‘Great Place to Work’ organisation for the past three years
• Since 2011, Specsavers has donated $7.8 million dollars to The Fred Hollows Foundation to help fund vital projects that improve the delivery of eye health services, strengthen health systems, and build a workforce for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to help end avoidable blindness

For a confidenlial chat, contact Leah Coulter on +61 (0) 429 783 450 or leah.coulter@specsavers.com or click here to see the Technology available for an Optom at Specsavers

If you are a final year student or recent graduate, please contact your Graduate Recruitment Consultant or email apac.graduateteam@specsavers.com

If you aren’t looking but know someone who is, you could earn up to $15k through our Refer a Friend bonus