Clinical Development Lead – Domiciliary Optometrist (GOC-Registered) | South England | Flexible, Equity Potential
Location: South England preferred (flexible)
Job Type: Part-time / Flexible / Self-Employed
Salary: Day-rate consultancy fee
Zest Optical are working in partnership with a new and fast-growing domiciliary eyecare provider to recruit an experienced, GOC-registered Optometrist for a Clinical Development Lead role. This is a strategic, advisory position rather than a traditional clinical post – ideal for an optometrist who wants to help shape a business.
About the role:
The business has been founded by two experienced optical / care-sector professionals, not clinicians, who already have a growing network of care homes engaged and a support team in place. What they need is an optometrist to provide clinical leadership as the business grows: shaping how the service is run, mentoring the optometrists delivering it, and guiding compliance and governance along the way.
What you'll be doing:
- Providing clinical leadership and governance across the domiciliary optometry service
- Helping shape policies, procedures, consent and safeguarding practices for domiciliary and care home settings
- Advising on compliance and best practice as the care home network grows
- Mentoring and supporting optometrists joining the business
- Contributing to strategic decisions on growth and long-term direction
- Helping build a genuinely patient-first, ethical culture as the business scales
- Optional clinical sessions, if desired – not required
This is a role that's expected to evolve. It's likely to start as a lighter-touch consultancy commitment, with real scope for the responsibility, involvement and reward to grow as the business expands.
What we're looking for:
- GOC-registered Optometrist
- Experience in domiciliary, care home or community eyecare highly desirable
- Exposure to the operational or business side of optometry
- More interested in mentoring, governance and strategy than solely clinical delivery
- Comfortable working on a self-employed/consultancy basis with a flexible time commitment
- A genuine, values-led approach to patient care
What's on offer:
- A genuinely influential, strategic role in a growing domiciliary eyecare business, from an early stage
- Flexible time commitment that can grow as the business does
- A long-term relationship with the founders, closer to a non-executive advisor than an employee
- Real influence over the direction, ethics and reputation of a new provider in the domiciliary optometry space
Apply now for a confidential conversation about the business, the role, and where it's heading.
Pay: £350.00-£500.00 per day
Benefits:
- Employee stock ownership plan
- Work from home
Licence/Certification:
- GOC Registration (required)
Work Location: In person
