Seven candidates achieve retailing NVQs

The candidates took their NVQs through Chaston Contacts Assessment Centre in Petersfield, Hampshire.

There are five mandatory and three optional units. The first five cover the relationship between the practice personnel, providing information to clients, practice procedures, NHS procedures and health and safety requirements.

Optional units are helping patients choose spectacles, through to ordering, checking and handing out the final item. There are units for support staff who help with contact lens collections, screening procedures, frame display or repairs and adjustments.

TMR’s Martin Russ and Tony Tindale qualified as assessors and Andrew Howarth is an internal verifier. Jayshree Vasani, optical services manager at the Institute of Optometry, in conjunction with TMR has qualified as an assessor, along with successful candidates Jacqueline Bloomfield and Lucy Kent from Hodd, Barnes & Dickins in London (pictured with assessment centre quality coordinator Jennifer Chaston and assessor Vasani).