Q&A: Kiki Soteri, Specsavers

What has the transition been like between your role as lecturer at Plymouth University and head of EOS at Specsavers?

Kiki Soteri I have been an optometrist for more than 20 years, employed in hospital roles, community high street and even a specialist house practice. While taking postgraduate modules and conducting masters research in clinical optometry, I founded and developed an independent practice, then sold it as a going concern. All this before I was employed as a lecturer at Plymouth University, so my clinical roots have made this transition into a head of enhanced services role at Specsavers a very smooth and natural one. I have been welcomed into an EOS team of highly driven, like-minded clinical colleagues.