Optometrist

Newcastle - Part Time, 3 days a week

£60,000

My client has an exciting new opportunity for an experienced qualified Optometrist to join their amazing and supportive team in Newcastle. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing and developing business and benefit from our amazing fully funded training programs.

Company Overview

As a leader in specialist eye care, we take pride in knowing our patients are the focus of everything we do and can live better lives because of the treatments we provide.

Our business is growing, as we continue to provide treatments on behalf of the NHS as well as elective eye surgery.

Benefits

– Generous salary which is reviewed annually.

– Generous matched pension contributions

– 33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays

– Private Healthcare, 24/7 GP appointments, physio and counselling for your wellbeing

– Free laser eye treatment for you and 20% discount for friends and family

– Learning and development which supports you to be the best you can be and progress on your career path

- Access to thousands of discounts from all the big (and plenty of small) names on the high street, including retail, supermarkets, travel and hospitality to help your money go further

The Role

As an integral part of a multi disciplinary team working alongside consultants, you will carry out pre and post-operative consultations, assessing the suitability of our patients for treatment. Some of your key responsibilities will include:

- Carry out examinations that are associated with refractive, cataract, glaucoma and retinal surgeries

- Run acute and follow up clinics post-surgery for all patients

- Provide health advice and support to patients attending the hospital

- Provide first line clinical advice to patients and follow the appropriate means of referral to a medical practitioner if necessary

What You’ll Need

- Current GOC registration as a fully qualified optometrist

- Extensive experience working as an optometrist in a refractive, high street or hospital environment

- Experience of using patient administration systems and electronic medical record systems

- Experience of working to conversion targets and other KPIs within Vision Correction

If interested please apply, or reach out to Emily Sim at e.sim@linqhc.co.uk for more details.

Recruitment Consultant - Healthcare 

Salary: £24,500 - £30,000

OTE Year 1: £40k - £50k 

"I love the money! But also the team I work with, I’ve made great friends and the social aspect is a big bonus too. Linq has a great team  and this makes the office environment a great place to work."

"My highlight at Linq so far has been the month I received my payslip and saw commission figures I’ve never been able to reach in my 4 years of recruitment before coming here. It’s made me realise what can actually be achieved if you work hard."

"My favourite thing about Linq are the people around me here; having a tough job is made so much easier when you have good people around you who are creating a good energy, making you laugh, supporting you on the down days and giving you a reason to look forward to going into the office each day" 

- A few quotes from our current superstars, can you be our next one?

Are you hungry to succeed, driven to achieve and have tons of energy? Are you empathetic yet competitive, enjoy making a real difference and want to work in an industry that genuinely changes lives? 

Well joining Linq Healthcare Recruitment Specialists could be the start of an extremely rewarding career where you will be pushed to be the best within the industry and change the perception of the "typical" recruiter. 

We're a friendly, ambitious and high quality Healthcare Recruitment Specialist that partners with a variety of Healthcare organisations helping them to identify and recruit top healthcare talent in the market. We're extremely dedicated to every person we work with and pride ourselves on working tirelessly to match the best candidates to the best companies in our industry. Whilst the job is extremely rewarding both financially and professionally, this is not a 9-5 standard job and we have high expectations of anyone who joins us -

• You will be highly energised with a resilient positive outlook (no neg-heads here!), the job is demanding and you will be knocked back, you will have days when you wonder "why the hell did I decide to go into recruitment", but you'll have an awesome team to support you through the ups an downs! 
• You will need to have a strong work ethic, this job isn't a 9-5 role, you'll be speaking to clients before work and candidates after work, even sometimes taking time out of your weekend to speak with the candidate you know is the perfect match for your client! 
• You will want to be the best of the best in our industry, let's be honest recruiters have earned a bit of a bed rep and we enjoy proving naysayer's wrong and changing the perception of recruitment in our industry. 
• You will be competitive and enjoy beating personal bests, pushing for no.1, going the extra mile to book one more interview and standing tall in the face of adversity 
• You won't be afraid to challenge the norm, bringing creative ideas to the table, looking at new ways of working and how you can really make your mark in our industry 

Put off yet..... if not, you'll be in for some great rewards - 

• Unrivalled earning potential, £40 - 50k year 1, £60k - £70k year 2, £80k + year 3... 
• Fast track management programme for exceptional performers and multiple managerial routes to take 
• 1-on-1 training with the Directors of the business and tailored to your goals and ambitions (whether you're new to recruitment or experienced) and adapted to how you like to learn
• Fantastic market with continued growth, warm accounts, lots of opportunity to diversify into new markets & our candidates and clients are pretty awesome people
• Regular incentives - Monthly lunch clubs, annual top biller holiday, early finish every Friday to go and celebrate success 
• A company that genuinely wants you to succeed and be the best recruiter you can be

If you think you could be the next superstar within our industry then send us through a copy of your CV and lets arrange a Zoom / MS Teams / Video Chat of your choice to discuss further!