Job overview

An exciting job opportunity has arisen to join our eyecare team. This is a highly specialised role involving visits to educational settings for children with special educational needs. The successful candidate will have prior experience of dispensing optical appliances to children, be able to problem solve with creative thinking and be willing to travel.

Main duties of the job

• Assess children with special educational needs for the measuring and ordering of appropriate optical appliances
• Ordering of optical appliances, with consideration for any special facial or physical characteristics, and frame or lens suitability 
• Verification of optical appliance orders to ensure that they are to the required specification
• Fitting, alteration and repair of glasses for these children in their educational setting

Working for our organisation

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff.  We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system.  Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated ‘good’ organisation with ‘outstanding’ features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

We employ nearly 5,000 people from over 80 nationalities, striving to be a diverse, inclusive employer and recognised leader in equality. We support flexible working, welcoming flexible applications. Proud of our many accreditations, we are embedding an anti-racist approach in all we do.