Job overview

The Head of Medicines Optimisation will lead the medicines optimisation function across the Place-Based Partnership. The post-holder will report to the Cluster leadership team and work closely with the Associate Medical Director(s) and Deputy Place Based Lead to embed the function and successfully plan and deliver the CCPL and medicines optimisation programme aligned to both NHS GM and Place priorities. This will include working with key stakeholders such as the wider Place team’s clinical and managerial colleagues, and partner agencies, to lead key aspects of NHS GM clinical and medicines optimisation strategies and plans; specifically service design, transformation and pathway reform through the management of projects and programmes. The post-holder will also contribute to the wider development of the medicines optimisation strategy and plans and lead projects across GM. 

Main duties of the job

The Head of Medicines Optimisation will be a key member of the Place-based team and wider medicines optimisation function across GM. The post holder will support the medicines optimisation function to meet the four core purposes of the ICS:

Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare,

Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access

Enhance productivity and value for money,

Help the NHS support broader social and economic development.

Working for our organisation

NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care

Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health and wellbeing of people who live and work in their area. Their purpose is to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money and support broader social and economic development in their area efficiency. This will be delivered in neighbourhood, place, combinations of places and GM system. Working across NHS GM or a designated locality on joint workstreams and initiatives and promoting awareness of Medicines Optimisation issues. This role will require direct travel to GM & stakeholder locations.

Our NHS People Promise

Our NHS People Promise –the promise we must all make to each other, to work together to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Like many other employers, NHS GM currently has evidence of unwarranted inequalities in the workforce, most notably in relation to minoritised ethnic, female and\or disabled staff and their intersectionality. As a result, we will use positive action measures to bring benefits to our organisation, including a wider pool of talented, skilled and experienced people from which to recruit and a better understanding of the needs of a more diverse range of customers.