Optometrist, Tauranga
Specsavers · 5001+ employees
What the role involves
- Providing eye care
- Conducting eye tests
- Managing patient care
What they ask for
Optometrist with a valid license to practice in New Zealand; ability to work 5 days per week including a weekend day; strong clinical and communication skills.
- Professional licence or registration
About the job
Want to know the feeling of changing lives? Feels Like Specsavers Join our team of dedicated professionals and be at the forefront of innovation in eye care! We’re about helping patients see and hear better by providing expert care. We’re also passionate about fostering career development for our team members, every single day.
- Career Growth: Grow your leadership skills as a Senior Optometrist or explore other career opportunities and passions with Specsavers, from mentorship to advancing in an area of clinical interest or focusing on making a difference in our communities through outreach work.
- Partner Pathway Program: We're not one huge business; we're hundreds of small ones. And you could be part of it. Our Specsavers Partner Pathway Program has helped 501 team members become store owners since 2012.
- Advancement and Accessibility in Technology: Enjoy cutting-edge technology like OCT scans for every patient at no extra cost, along with HFA-3 Visual fields, integrated software management systems, auto-phoropters, autorefractors, and non-contact tonometry in every store.
- Accredited Great Place to Work: We’re proud to have been accredited as a Great Place to Work for the last five years running and ranked 12th on the World’s Best Places to Work in 2025!
Community Impact: We are passionate about giving back to the community and partnering with the Fred Hollows Foundation and we’ve donated over 10 million dollars, transforming lives by restoring sight and providing essential eye care.
If you feel like you want to make a difference in the world, we’re interested. What are you waiting for?
Join our Tauranga Crossing location on a permanent, full-time basis as their newest Optometrist!
- Salary Package: Competitive salary package based on experience.
- Roster: Working 5 days per week, including a weekend day.
- Store Information: Join Tauranga Crossing, a lively and fast-paced store with 3 test rooms and a collaborative team environment.
- Patient Demographic: Tauranga Crossing serves a diverse mix of families, professionals, retirees, and children, providing the opportunity to care for a broad range of patients within a growing community.
Feel supported with our benefits and perks:
- Feel Valued in Your Role: Professional Indemnity Insurance is covered by Specsavers, and you gain access to MyCPD portal for continuous career development with an exclusive invite to the Annual Specsavers Clinical Conference!
- The Way We Feel: Your health and wellbeing is important to us – access to health insurance discounts, EAP, financial wellbeing tools and fitness passport gym discounts
Birthday & volunteer leave
- Access to Specsavers Perks App – exclusive discounts and shopping program with multiple Australian retailers and grocers!
Two free pairs of glasses each year + an annual 30% off discount for family and friends!
Is the Grass Greener – why choose Specsavers? Specsavers Optometrists are leading the way in community eye care, identifying 90% of avoidable blindness and proudly achieving over 1m KeepSight registrations. We’re proud to say that we are maintaining a 93% glaucoma detection rate in-store and are helping 1 in 5 kids manage myopia. 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. At Specsavers we believe a diverse, inclusive and flexible culture enables our people to bring their whole selves to work and be proud of doing so.
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- It needs a professional licence or registration. Put yours near the top, with its number if the profession uses one.
- It names OCT, HFA-3, auto-phoropter, autorefractor, non-contact tonometry and MyCPD. Use the same words on your CV for the ones you've used, so a search finds them.
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