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Health Innovation Manchester is seeking a Senior Health Economist to play a central role in shaping the future of health and care across Greater Manchester. This is an opportunity to use your expertise to generate insights that will directly influence how innovations are adopted, scaled and evaluated - ensuring real benefits for patients, the NHS and wider society.

In this role, you will lead the development of health economic analysis across a diverse portfolio of programmes, from cardiovascular and metabolic health to digital technologies and new models of care. You will design and apply approaches that assess value, cost-effectiveness, and impact at both system and population level, working closely with clinicians, academic partners, and industry.

We are looking for someone who combines technical rigour with a collaborative mindset. You will be comfortable engaging with stakeholders across different sectors, able to translate complex analysis into clear insights, and committed to informing decision-making with robust evidence. This is a senior post, offering the chance to contribute thought leadership and mentor colleagues while continuing to develop your own expertise.

About the role

This is a key leadership position, supporting the transformation of HInM into a truly benefit-led organisation. You will:

• Lead on health economics and benefits realisation across the organisation.
• Manage a team to deliver high-quality economic modelling, cost-benefit analyses, and budget impact assessments using real-world data.
• Design and implement policies and processes that ensure best practice in demonstrating value for money and return on investment.
• Work closely with stakeholders from across the NHS, academia, and industry to develop collaborative, innovative solutions that deliver tangible impact for patients and the wider health and care system.
• Provide high-level advice and insights to senior leadership to support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Build the organisation's reputation through thought leadership, training, and communication of success stories.

About us

Health Innovation Manchester (HInM) is a different type of place-based innovation organisation. Since formation in 2017, we have evolved our operating model and method for how we deploy innovation to deliver demonstrable impact and benefits to local people, system partners and industry. Our vision is to be world leading in improving the lives of local people, transforming care and boosting the economy through innovation. Our Strategic Objectives: 1) Address high priority drivers of population health by deploying proven innovations at scale, with a major focus on primary and secondary prevention. 2) Establish GM as a global learning market for accelerated access to novel innovations at scale. 3) Optimise digital and data products and services to understand the population, define their needs and develop new models and pathways. 4) Work with partners to enhance the GM system's capacity and capability to deliver health innovation and demonstrate impact. Health Innovation Manchester is hosted by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. We welcome interest from all qualified applicants.

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We look forward to hearing from you!

• Masters level education in a relevant discipline or equivalent level of experience.
• Degree level education in a relevant discipline or equivalent level of experience working at a senior level.
• Evidence of relevant Professional Development.
• Recognised qualification in the application of statistical methods
• Office for National Statistics (ONS) Approved Researcher

• Excellent listener and a clear and consistent communicator.
• Energetic and determined with a positive 'can do' sense of confidence and high degree of personal integrity and emotional self-awareness.
• A proven track record of successful transformative and innovative working within health or health related settings
• Demonstrable analytical skills and experience, including complex statistical methods
• Independent, flexible, and entrepreneurial thinker, capable of working with ambiguity, results focused and resilient in the face of resistance.
• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication, facilitation and presentation skills, organisational skills with demonstrated ability to execute projects
• Skills in the implementation of evaluative methods
• Successful track record of involving clinicians, service users and other stakeholders in implementing change
• Ability to plan, organise and deliver communications activity such as meeting, workshops, presentation, and events
• Actual experience of using principles and theories of Quality Improvement.

• Experience of working within and/or with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience of establishing effective working relationships and delivering improvement across organisational boundaries.
• Experience of leading on the development of new pathways, processes, protocols and policies to support change management work arising within the programme areas.
• Experience and the ability to present highly complex and sensitive business change that may involve significant resistance and hostility to change.
• Demonstrable experience of successful multi- disciplinary team working.
• Experience of systems that harness new technology and innovations.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

£64,455 to £74,896 a year, per annum, pro rata