As part of your day-to-day duties, you could:

• use a range of precision instruments
• use vision measuring and testing tools
• diagnose and give advice
• prescribe, fit and supply glasses or contact lenses
• discuss the suitability and shape of glasses frames
• refer clients to specialists or ophthalmologists (eye surgeons)

You could work at a store, in an NHS or private hospital, at a GP practice or in a laboratory.

You could specialise in an area like paediatrics (working with children), contact lenses, sports vision or low vision.

You could study for an MSc in optometry or train further in contact lens practice, therapeutics (prescribing drugs for certain eye problems) or specific conditions like diabetes and glaucoma.