Chief Medical Officer | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 28 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £100,000 - £200,000 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 August 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M13 9WL |
| Company: | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7351683/349-HIM-7351683-RL4 |
Summary
Health Innovation Manchester (HInM) is a pioneering health and care innovation system aiming to improve the wellbeing of Greater Manchester’s 2.8 million residents. Working with the region’s devolved Partnership, which oversees £6bn in NHS spending, HInM integrates world-class digital, academic, and research assets with industry to rapidly implement innovations in clinical practice.
HInM unites the Greater Manchester Academic Health Science Centre and Network, collaborating with partners like CLAHRC, the Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, and Connected Health Cities. It leads system-wide transformation by breaking down organisational barriers and fostering cross-sector leadership.
Its innovation pipeline includes both proven solutions and cutting-edge R&D, spanning the full health and care spectrum. The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) will join the executive team, providing clinical leadership to ensure innovation aligns with patient safety, quality, and outcomes. The CMO will also drive clinical engagement, support industry partnerships, and uphold data governance standards across the Greater Manchester Integrated Care System.
If you’re a proven clinical leader with a passion for innovation and improving healthcare, HInM invites you to join its mission to make Greater Manchester a place where people start well, live well, and age well.
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at Health Innovation Manchester (HInM) will contribute as a member of the HInM Executive, being responsible for providing clinical leadership, ensuring that the organisation's innovative activities are underpinned by high standards of patient safety, quality care, and clinical outcomes. The CMO will be instrumental in fostering strong collaboration across clinical functions across the GM Integrated Care System and supporting HInM’s industry engagements with clinical expertise. Maintaining trust in healthcare data governance and upholding the integrity of patient information across GM will be central to the role.
In partnership with the Chief Nurse, the CMO will oversee the performance of the clinical function, ensuring their alignment with HInM's strategic objectives.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll 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 you’ll 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 atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Thursday 28 Aug 2025
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