Optical Assistant

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 21 April 2026
LOCATION
Hessle
TYPE
Part-time
LEVEL
Associate
CATEGORY
Healthcare
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion

SKILLS

Customer Service Optical Experience Dispensing Teamwork IT Systems Communication

FULL DESCRIPTION

Experienced Optical Assistant

So, you’re a proactive people person ready to be the friendly face our stores need? Sounds like you’d be a great fit here. So, if you’ve had previous optical experience as an Optical Advisor or Dispensing Assistant, and are level 3 qualified or equivalent, this Optical Assistant role could be perfect for you.

As an Optical Assistant, you’ll use your passion for the [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] brand, products and services alongside your incredible customer service skills, to create an outstanding store environment for both our customers and our team.

The role

Based in Hessle, our store is looking for someone with previous optical experience that can dispense up to Multi focal.

What’s on Offer?

  • Full time - 42 hours - Will include a weekend day
  • From £13.50 per hour depending on (recent) experience (pro-rata for PT)
  • [Employer hidden] Perks – our discounted benefits scheme
  • 28 days holiday including Bank holiday
  • Free Parking

What we’re looking for?

If this is still sounding like a bit of you, we do need you to have a few skills to get started as an Optical Assistant. These include:

  • Previous optical experience as an Optical Advisor or Dispensing Assistant
  • Passion for providing excellent customer service and making customers’ lives easier
  • Great teamwork
  • A good initiative
  • Confidence in using IT systems
  • Excellent communication and listening skills
  • Prepared to step out of your comfort zone and try something new
  • Able to receive feedback and be open to development, knowing we’ll be there to support and guide you throughout your process (with your openness and our guidance, your opportunities will be endless).

Find out more

If you’ve got all these skills, we’d love for you to apply, but there’s also some desirable experience that could set you apart from the competition if you have it.

This includes:

  • Previous experience in a fast-paced customer service optics environment
  • Experience in optics or Audiology business
  • Basic knowledge/experience of optical and/or Audiology terminology.

Checked all the boxes? Now’s the perfect time to apply!

Elisha Aunger

Recruiter

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