Head of Medicines Optimisation (FTC)

Spirit Health Group Limited; Leicester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare innovation firm in Leicester seeks a Head of Medicines Optimisation to lead end-to-end services, driving impactful solutions for patient care. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership and analytical skills, a background as a Registered Pharmacist, and a deep understanding of the NHS landscape. Responsibilities include designing services, supporting clinical teams, maintaining quality assurance, and fostering partnerships to ensure effective service delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience working in or with NHS Medicines Optimisation Teams.
• Ability to design and write service specifications and protocols.
• Experience using GP clinical systems to build searches.

Responsibilities

• Lead Medicines Optimisation services and ensure quality and safety.
• Design new medicines optimisation services with NHS partners.
• Support and coach clinical teams to enhance their expertise.

Skills

Strong leadership

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Innovation and creativity

Education

Registered Pharmacist with the GPhC

Job description

This is a senior clinical leadership role for a pharmacist who wants to raise the good kind of hell in medicines optimisation. As Head of Medicines Optimisation at Spirit Health, you will lead our Meds Op services end-to-end, shaping ideas, building services, and delivering real-world impact for patients, clinicians and the NHS.

You will be trusted to set the clinical direction, act as Spirits safeguarding lead, and champion safe, effective, people-first service delivery. From designing commercially viable NHS services to supporting and developing clinical teams, you will turn bold thinking into services that stand up, scale up and make healthcare easier.

This role is for someone who moves fast, thinks sharp and never settles for good enough. You will bring deep NHS insight, strong leadership and the confidence to challenge, influence and deliver even when things get complex. You will work closely with GP practices, Primary Care partners and internal teams, taking services from concept to rollout with energy, care and accountability.

At Spirit, were family with purpose. We back each other, speak honestly, and go after what matters. If you are driven by impact, thrive in pace and ambiguity, and want your expertise to genuinely matter you will feel right at home here.

Ready to bring the brilliance? Lets make health easy.

Main duties of the job

Youll lead our Medicines Optimisation work with clarity, confidence and pace setting direction, making sound clinical decisions, and keeping quality and safety front and centre.

Youll shape new medicines optimisation services, working with NHS partners to turn opportunities into practical, deliverable solutions that create real value. From early ideas through to mobilisation, youll guide services into the real world and make sure they land well.

Youll support, coach and challenge our clinical teams, creating the right environment for people to do great work and grow their expertise. Youll also provide clear clinical assurance internally and externally, giving confidence to colleagues, customers and stakeholders.

Youll work closely with senior leaders, governance groups and partners to manage clinical risk, maintain strong oversight, and continuously improve how our services run. Alongside this, youll act as Spirits safeguarding lead, ensuring best practice is embedded across everything we do.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys variety, moves comfortably between strategy and delivery, and takes pride in building services that genuinely improve patient care.

About us

We're challengers on one mission: make health easy.

We build smarter medicines management, digitalmonitoring, and patient education tools that improve patients life andsimplify work for clinicians. Trusted by the NHS for over 15 years, we arescaling.

Through Spirit Health Foundation, we're extendingthat mission to underserved communities globally. Early detection. Betteraccess. Healthier lives for all.

Back-to-back rating as #1 health & social careemployer (Best Companies), were only getting started.

Withbig ambitions and global impact, we need brilliant people to help us deliver.

Job responsibilities

Why am I here (Purpose )

To provide clinical leadership across medicines optimisation services, designing commercially viable solutions that deliver clinical excellence and value for customers while ensuring safe, effective service delivery and supporting clinical teams through supervision and development.

What am I aiming to achieve (Outcomes)

Provide clinical leadership across all of Medicine Optimisation and service delivery workstreams

Design and operationalise commercially viable service offerings valued by customers

Deliver credible clinical insight and assurance for customers and clients

Act as safeguarding lead for Spirit

Provide training and clinical support for clinical staff delivering services

Any reasonable duties shall be undertaken to achieve the above.

How I will know I have succeeded? (Success Measures)

Demonstrate adherence to policies including confidentiality, safeguarding, information governance, and health and safety

Effectively communicate and gain cooperation from stakeholders including patients, colleagues, and NHS/private organisations

Successfully identify, assess, and manage clinical risk when working with individuals

Deliver professional expertise with accountability and maintain effective collaborative relationships

Apply in-depth therapeutic knowledge and evidence-based healthcare principles

Demonstrate emotional resilience and sustained performance under pressure

Show understanding of primary care prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing practices

What will I do (Responsibilities)

Establish work practices ensuring clinically safe and effective service development

Implement clinical supervision systems and ongoing CPD frameworks for clinical team members

Identify and design solutions for Medicines Optimisation business opportunities

Operationalise service concepts meeting clinical and governance standards

Collaborate with customers to create innovative solutions meeting their needs

Provide clinical leadership during piloting, mobilising, and roll-out of services

Develop evidence and communicate successes to support service claims

Maintain continuous improvement mindset and identify better service delivery opportunities

Establish and maintain relationships with third parties where required

Work closely with Group Governance Committee ensuring services operate within governance framework

Attend and contribute to senior leadership and team Spirit meetings

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacist with the GPhC

Experience

• Experience and awareness of common acute and long-term conditions in general practice
• Extensive understanding of current NHS organisational landscape and priorities
• Experience working in or with NHS Medicines Optimisation Teams
• Experience using GP clinical systems to build searches
• Ability to design and write service specifications and protocols
• Strong leadership and business development skills
• Excellent analytical and organisational skills with attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal, influencing, and communication skills at all levels
• Innovation and creativity to develop commercially viable customer solutions
• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines, and act on own initiative
• Relationship building capabilities and team player mentality
• Personal accountability and ability to manage planned and unforeseen activities

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.