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Permanent | Part-time

Benefits

Discounted gym membership
Employee assistance programme
Employee discount

Qualifications

Customer service
GOC

Full job description

268700BR

Contact Lens Optician

Taunton, High Street

Permanent

Part-time

Job Description

What you’ll be doing
As a qualified Contact Lens Optician, you will be providing a high level of customer care and expert advice to make a real difference to our customers and keep them coming back. You will work in store across our clinics and the wider store to support the day to day operations, reporting to the Store Manager/Hub Manager.

Key responsibilities

Using your passion for delivering patient care you'll work with colleagues to deliver a positive customer journey.
Building longstanding relationships – not only with colleagues and customers but with healthcare professionals in the local community and explore the opportunities for delivering enhanced services
Using your up to date knowledge of Contact Lens technology and spectacle dispensing to train and develop the wider optical team.
Validating complex prescriptions and vulnerable groups and providing expert knowledge for patients with more specialist requirements.
Opportunity to supervise a Student Contact Lens Optician/Student Dispensing Optician

What you’ll need to have (our must-haves)

Full GOC registration
Qualified Contact Lens Optician
Passion for patient care

It would be great if you also have
Ability to embrace new technologies

Where your brilliance can take you
At Boots Opticians, your clinical career can go in many directions – from clinician and non-clinical leadership roles to even owning your own Boots Opticians store through our Franchise Academy. Whatever path you choose, we’ll help you get there.

Rewards designed for you

Boots Retirement Savings Plan
Discretionary annual bonus
Generous employee discounts
Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

There’s lots more in our benefits and discounts, MyBoosts – there to give you that little lift in your everyday. Find out more at http://boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply; eligible roles only. Please note that any salary estimates provided on third-party sites are not endorsed by Boots Opticians and may not be accurate.

A bit about us
At Boots Opticians, we help everyone see what’s possible, from our customers to our colleagues. We’re a proud equal opportunity employer, and the diversity of our colleagues is so important to us, as we create a positive and inclusive workplace for everyone who steps through the door. With a supportive team and trusted brand behind you, join us, and be brilliant with Boots.

What’s next?
If you apply, our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange next steps. Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you be at your best.

This role requires the successful candidate to complete a pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location, you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable Groups) or an Access NI Check.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

We hope to hear from you soon.
Be brilliant with Boots.

Need To Know

Join Our Team at Boots!

Contract: Permanent
Hours: 22.5 hours per week.
various
Location: Taunton
Recruitment Partner: [email protected] or 07815 010 102

We are looking for a passionate Contact Lens Optician, to join us in Somerset, in our Taunton practice!

This position is part-time, working 3 days per week – including weekends and Bank Holidays.

You would be joining an experienced team of 12, comprising 1 Dispensing Optician, 1 Contact Lens Optician and 2 Resident Optometrists – this practice has a fresh, modern feel having been recently refitted in 2024 and is a busy, ambitious practice aiming to be a Centre of Excellence. The practice has 3 testing rooms, Optomap and sits within a Boots UK store alongside HearingCare.

The location is easily accessible, sitting on the M5 motorway junction, with easy access through excellent train links with Bristol and London.

Business Area

Opticians

Function

Opticians

Keywords

Optician, Opticians, Optometry, Clinician, Contact Lens, Dispensing Optician, Optician Support, Optical Support, Lenses,

Hours per week

22.5

Latitude,longitude 1

51.01377682,-3.10371007

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Hours per week

16 to 24 hours per week

Company

Optics

Division

300 - South

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Region

OPT107 - South West and Channel Islands

Area

OPT107 - South West and Channel Islands

Store

3423 - Taunton - High St

Req Posted Date

19-Jan-2026

County

Somerset

Country

Address 1

64-65 High Street

Address 2

Taunton

Post Code

TA1 3PT

Source

Boots

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