Caroline Thacker Email & Phone Number

Well qualified professional optometrist with retail/domiciliary experience and commercial awareness.Motivated self-starter who is fully converse with a wide range of different workplace experience, also enjoys a challenge, good humoured, articulate, with strong analytical, communication and organisational skills.Ø Fifteen years experience within optometry business working for both large and small scale retail, domiciliary, independent and Multi-disciplinary companies, working for Custom Vision Clinic, Optegra, Boots, Specsavers, Healthcall, Visionplus, Bradford University and Winters independent and domiciliary opticians.Ø Flexible being able to work with new people, in new environments, as part of a team or independently.Ø Able to work towards targets always striving to reach goals and succeed through solving problems in a common sense methodical approach.Ø Charismatic, approachable, friendly, able to make people feel at ease.Ø Build up a rapport with patients and work colleagues, forming lasting relationships.Ø Can work to targets and set my own goals to ensure I achieve and maintain the standards required.Ø Able to deal with different groups of patients in a professional caring way including experience with dementia, alzheimers, huntingtons, elderly, young disabled, blind and partially sighted, young adult with behavioural issues, young multiplesclerosis, head injury and stroke patients.Ø Able to answer and deal with questions from patients in a way that is understandable to them using terms which don’t confuse.Ø Owner/director of own business providing optometric services to a wide range of companies.Ø Having respect for colleagues, open minded and always aware that can learn from others.Ø Always striving to obtain knowledge and training to continually expand on skills and experience to maximise customer satisfaction and add value to my work place environment