Role overview

Full-Time Associate Optometrist

Partnership & Ownership Opportunity — Yorkton, SK

Guaranteed $200,000+ · 25% of gross billings · Monday–Friday, no evenings or weekends · Clear path to partnership and ownership

Are you an optometrist seeking a rewarding, full-scope career in a thriving, well-established practice — with a real path to owning it? Drs. Popick, Caines & Associates in Yorkton, Saskatchewan is hiring dedicated optometrists to join our pathology-based primary and secondary care practice, with a clear path to partnership and/or ownership of one of the longest continuously running optometric practices in the province.

▬ WHY JOIN OUR PRACTICE

Our practice has been a trusted part of the Yorkton community since the 1930s and has operated with a strong team of three optometrists for over 33 years. With one doctor already retiring and ownership potential, this is an exceptional opportunity to step into a busy, patient-focused environment with a an all-encompassing highly loyal patient demographic — our owners have been booked roughly a year in advance for the last two years.

▬ PRACTICE TO THE TOP OF YOUR LICENSE

This is full-scope optometry, not routine refraction alone. As a rural service centre for southeastern Saskatchewan, we diagnose and manage ocular disease in-house — sparing our patients long drives to the city — and offer growing specialty services. You'll use everything you learned in school.

Pathology-based primary and secondary care, including ocular disease and glaucoma co-management including cataracts, AMD, glaucoma, etc.

Growing specialty services — myopia management and dry-eye therapy.

Strong referral relationships with physicians and ophthalmologists in Regina and Saskatoon.

▬ WHAT WE OFFER

State-of-the-art equipment— Optomap (California model), Topcon OCT, Octopus 900 Perimeter, Nidek Auto K-R, Nidek RT-5100 Refractor, and 5 fully equipped refracting lanes.

Efficient EMR— Optosys for seamless scheduling, billing, and patient management.

Established patient base— over 20,000 active files and strong local referral relationships.

Fully equipped dispensary & lab— over 1,500 frames and on-site edging with 1-hour service for single-vision lenses (Nidek Ice 1000 blocker and Lexce Trend edger added in 2023).

Experienced support staff— a tenured team of 6 full-time staff, including CCOA-certified members.

Purpose-built clinic— a 6,300 sq. ft. stand-alone building across from the hospital, with onsite parking for patients and staff.

▬ THE OPPORTUNITY — AND A GENUINE PATH TO OWNERSHIP

Competitive compensation— 25% of gross billings with a guaranteed minimum of $200,000. Recent associates have earned over $225,000 per year.

Clear path to partnership / ownership— step into ownership of an established, profitable practice and the purpose-built building. Owner-supported (vendor) financing options are available, so ownership may be achievable without wealthy backing.

Mentorship through transition— Dr. Popick will remain to mentor the incoming owner for an agreed period (from six months up to about two years) on a diminishing schedule, protecting continuity for patients and staff.

Work-life balance— Monday to Friday, 8:45 AM – 5:00 PM. No evenings or weekends.

Repatriating or landlocked?If you're an associate with no ownership path where you are, or a Canadian optometrist practising abroad and looking to come home, this is a rare chance to own — not just work.

▬ WHY YORKTON

Yorkton is a growing city of over 19,000, serving a regional population of 200,000+. It offers an affordable cost of living, a strong local economy, and year-round recreation — skiing, golfing, hiking, boating, and biking — within an hour's drive of three provincial parks, under one of Canada's sunniest skies. It's a genuinely family-friendly community: short commutes (10 minutes or less), home for lunch, and minutes from your kids' activities. Yorkton is also home to the Yorkton Film Festival, the longest-running film festival in Canada.

▬ INTERESTED? LET'S TALK

This is more than a job — it's a long-term career opportunity with real partnership and ownership potential. We'd love to hear from you.