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    • Level 2 Supporting Optical Practice
    • Level 3 Senior Optical Assistant
    • Level 5 Certificate in Supporting Optical Care course
    • Level 7 Certificate in Supporting Optical Care course
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Level 2 qualification for OAs
Applications are open for immediate start so enrol your optical support staff today
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Access any time

Our courses are delivered using our online learning platform which means you can access all your course work anytime and anyplace, even on the bus!

Across all platforms

Using our online learning platform you can access your course work across a range of different platforms, desktop PC, laptop, tablet and mobile phone.

Expert tutors

All of our tutors are professionals within Optics, and have vast experience of different optical fields as well as education.

Fresh new course work

Our course material is fresh and new and teaches the most current practices being used in Optics.

Our courses

Level 2 Optical Assistant

Start your career in optics with this qualification. It has been designed for support staff working within optics who do not have a registerable qualification, so whether you work in retail optics, manufacturing, sales or technical support this is a great course for you. There are eight units so you can choose any 4 units that are most applicable to your own role for the Certificate, or why not study all 8 for the Diploma.

Level 3 Senior Optical Assistant

Start your career in optics with this qualification. It has been designed for support staff working within optics who do not have a registerable qualification, so whether you work in retail optics, manufacturing, sales or technical support this is a great course for you. There are eight units so you can choose any 4 units that are most applicable to your own role for the Certificate, or why not study all 8 for the Diploma.

Level 5 Certificate in Supporting Optical Care course

This course is supported by NHS Education for Scotland. It is designed to ensure you obtain a sound knowledge of optics developing the necessary skills to understand the basics of the subject. The course is ideally suited to a diverse range of people from those who are new to optics or those who may have been working in practice for several years. This Level 5 course teaches you the fundamental essential skills in a flexible and supportive way.

Level 7 Certificate in Supporting Optical Care course

This course is supported by NHS Education for Scotland. It is designed to ensure you obtain a sound knowledge of optics developing the necessary skills to understand the basics of the subject. The course is ideally suited to those who may have been working in practice for several years. This course teaches you the fundamental essential skills in a flexible and supportive way.
This Level 7 course is a short qualification to help you develop essential skills.

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Testimonials

Dispensing Optician, London

“Having an open start date was great. I hired a new OA on Monday and she started her first unit on Friday”

B Burns, Level 2 Student

“As a working mum it helped me to have the flexibility to study when I had time”

M Glover, Workshop attendee

“The handbook was full of colour photos and diagrams that really helped to explain things”

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INSIGHT OPTICAL TRAINING LIMITED 
Devonwood, Spekes Road
Hempstead, Gillingham,
Kent, ME7 3RT
email: info@insight-optical.co.uk

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