The posting
Mobile Optometrist | Your Home Location
Make a bigger impact across multiple communities.
At Leightons, we believe optometry should be more than sight tests and sales targets.
We're looking for a Mobile Optometrist to join our team, covering a collection of Leightons practices within a comfortable radius of your home address. You'll enjoy the variety of working across different locations while having the time, technology and clinical freedom to deliver the kind of patient care you trained for.
As a proudly independent, family-owned business with nearly 100 years of heritage, we focus on building lasting patient relationships, investing in our people and creating an environment where clinical excellence comes first.
The Opportunity
Location: Flexible. We'll work with you to create a territory around your home address.
Salary: £60,000 to £74,160 FTE (depending on experience and qualifications)
Working Pattern: Flexible part-time or full-time opportunities available, including some Saturday working.
Why Mobile Optometrists Choose Leightons
✅ Competitive salary up to £74,160 FTE
✅ Performance-related bonus scheme
✅ Fully funded professional development, including:
- Independent Prescribing (IP)
- Glaucoma qualifications
- Further clinical accreditations
✅ Company Car or Car Allowance
✅ Professional Indemnity Insurance
✅ Health Cash Plan
✅ Life Cover
✅ Staff discounts on products and services
✅ A supportive clinical network passionate about best-practice eye care
✅ Variety, flexibility and the opportunity to work across multiple practices
Most importantly, you'll join a business where quality of care matters more than volume.
A Day in the Life
No two days are the same.
You'll work across a range of Leightons practices, building relationships with patients and colleagues while delivering exceptional clinical care. This role offers genuine variety, exposure to different teams and the opportunity to share best practice across our network.
You'll play an important role in supporting practices, embracing new technology and helping deliver an outstanding patient experience wherever you work.
What You'll Be Doing
- Delivering comprehensive sight tests and eye examinations
- Providing a range of clinical services, including emergency eye care, paediatric care and myopia management
- Delivering tailored recommendations based on individual patient needs
- Working across multiple Leightons locations within your allocated territory
- Supporting colleagues through coaching, onboarding and sharing best practice
- Maintaining the highest standards of professional practice and clinical governance
- Building strong relationships with branch teams and local healthcare stakeholders
What We're Looking For
We're interested in speaking with Optometrists who are:
- Fully qualified and GOC registered
- Passionate about delivering exceptional patient care
- Adaptable and confident working across different locations
- Strong communicators who build trust naturally
- Keen to develop their clinical expertise and embrace new technologies
- Team players who thrive in collaborative environments
Whether you're an experienced mobile Optometrist or simply looking for more variety in your working week, we'd love to hear from you.
Why Choose a Mobile Role?
This is an opportunity to enjoy all the benefits of independent optometry whilst experiencing the variety of working with different teams and communities. You'll broaden your clinical experience, build a strong network across the business and enjoy the flexibility of a role designed around your location.
Ready to practise optometry the way it should be?
Join a business where you'll be trusted to put patients first, supported to grow your clinical expertise and valued as an individual.
Apply today and discover why so many Optometrists choose Leightons.
We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and creating a workplace culture in which diversity and inclusion is valued and everyone is treated with dignity and respect. As part of our zero-tolerance approach to discrimination in any form, you and any job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (Protected Characteristics).
Applicants that have been rejected in the past 12 months should not reapply for the same job role.
