Earnings for company directors, partners and sole practitioners depend on business performance. With experience you can earn from around £28,000 to in excess of £65,000.Salaries for qualified optometrists starting in high street practice are typically around £30,000, depending on your employer and location.Many employers in community practice pay additional expenses such as pre-registration fees. There's no set minimum salary for the pre-registration year in community practice, but most employers pay at least the National Living Wage (if you're 23 or over) or the National Minimum Wage (if you're under 23).Salaries and benefits may also vary between independent and chain practices. Your salary will vary, depending on whether you're working in a community practice or for the National Health Service (NHS). advise NHS England or local clinical commissioning groups on the development of eye care services.manage and prescribe medicines for people with eye conditions.liaise with sales representatives from vision care product suppliers.administer, organise and plan the development of the practice.manage the retail aspects of spectacles, contact lenses and other vision care products.

manage and train staff, including other optometrists, dispensing opticians and optical assistants.meet sales targets with regard to selling spectacles or contact lenses.liaise with and write referral letters to doctors and other optometrists with higher qualifications.

offer help and advice to patients when choosing frames and lenses.discuss vision-related matters with patients, and offer advice and reassurance.detect signs and symptoms of general health conditions such as diabetes.manage and monitor some eye conditions, either autonomously or alongside other healthcare professionals.examine patients' eyes to detect vision defects and signs of injury, disease or abnormality.speak to patients to get detailed case histories from them.Many of the settings in which optometrists work enable part-time or flexible working.

Patients may have dementia, learning needs or physical disabilities.

domiciliary - going to patients' homes, care homes and day care centres to carry out eye examinations.

community multiple - large companies that have multiple branches in the UK and sometimes abroad.

Most optometrists work in community practice. You may see both NHS and private patients. Patients range from very young children to the elderly. Most of these activities involve the use of specialist equipment. You'll use your skills to improve patients' vision and can, with higher qualifications, share the care of patients with chronic conditions or manage patients with low-risk eye conditions. Optometrists examine patients' eyes, give advice on visual problems and prescribe and fit spectacles, contact lenses and low-vision aidsĪs an optometrist, you'll be trained to recognise vision defects and abnormalities, injuries to the eye, eye diseases such as glaucoma and cataracts, and serious health conditions such as diabetes, brain tumours or high blood pressure.

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