About the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Commercial to work with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust to take a leading role in growing our research portfolio to develop and deliver translational mental health research opportunities and practice to our populations and communities.
The successful post holder will identify and foster strategic partnerships within the mental health industry. Cultivating relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical research institutions, technology and digital organisations and regulatory bodies to advance the development and implementation of mental health innovations via both clinical trials and using more pioneering real world evidence approaches.
The post holder will leverage these partnerships and ensure effective commercial governance arrangements to bring innovative treatments and therapies to the forefront of mental health care, supporting Mersey Care’s growing research portfolio to develop and deliver translational mental health research opportunities and practice to our populations and communities.
They will act as a Senior Responsible Officer for defined programmes, working with integrated teams across Mersey Care and M-RIC, focusing on our industry and commercial function and working closely with Executive Team and their Deputies.
The Head of Commercial Innovation will have responsibility to develop a sustainable footprint for the long term. Ensuring continuity of revenue from our partners, growing our clinical trials and research advisory services and developing a portfolio of accounts so we can enable ground-breaking discoveries in mental health therapies and treatments that improve our patients’ lives.
Building on successes such as the funding received from the Mental Health Mission, the Mersey Care Mood Clinic, the Mental Health Incubator and the allocation for the Investment Zone proposal, and developing the areas within the Trust with the potential for growth, such as the TMS Service. They will focus on ensuring the successful delivery of the Trusts ambition to become commercially sustainable by developing global partnerships with digital, pharmaceutical and med-tech companies.
They will provide leadership on industry engagement activities for Mersey Care serving as a primary interface with industry, representing Mersey Care across the Cheshire & Merseyside system and more broadly on the commercial, industry, economic growth, wealth creation, business development and financial aspects of our work.
They will play a pivotal leadership role in achieving the health innovation ambitions set out in the Board’s research and innovation strategic objective, and showcasing Mersey Care on an international market alongside our core stakeholders.
We are transforming mental health care and research in the UK. Mersey Care has a turnover of c. £750m and are one of the largest mental health and community providers in the UK serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We are recognized for our excellence and national brand presence and are transforming the way we carry out research with our partners as well as deliver care to our patients. We received investment from the Office for Life Science and NIHR and have established a first of type research centre.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.