Job summary
Help shape the future of equitable eye care across Greater Manchester.

Are you passionate about tackling health inequalities and creating lasting change? Do you enjoy bringing people together, building strong partnerships, and turning ideas into action? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

As the Health Inequalities Lead for Optometry, you'll play a key role in improving access to eye care and reducing health inequalities across Greater Manchester. This is a unique opportunity to influence how services are delivered, ensuring that everyone—regardless of their background or circumstances—can access the eye care they need.

If you're a proactive, strategic thinker with excellent relationship-building skills and a genuine passion for improving population health, this is your chance to make a meaningful impact in a role where your ideas, leadership, and enthusiasm will help shape the future of eye care across Greater Manchester.

Main duties of the job
Working closely with Optometry and GP practices, commissioners, and a wide range of partners, you'll lead initiatives to strengthen service coverage, champion the Easy Eyecare Service, and help remove barriers to care for underserved communities. Your work will directly contribute to improving patient outcomes and creating a more inclusive, accessible eye care system.

Please note this role is 4 hours per week, on a 12-month fixed term contract.

The role sits in the Optometry service under the management of the Greater Manchester Primary Care Provider Board (PCB).

Key Responsibilities

• Reducing Health Inequalities, Enhancing Engagement and Partnership Working.
• Identify and address inequalities in access to optometry services with an initial focus on Easy Eyecare Pathway across Greater Manchester using population health data, local intelligence, and stakeholder feedback.
• Support the development and delivery of targeted approaches to improve equity of access for priority populations.
• Increase engagement with optical practices to encourage participation in initiatives aimed at improving coverage and reducing inequalities.
• Strengthen collaboration with GP practices to improve awareness, referral pathways, and uptake of the Easy Eyecare Service.
• Act as a key point of contact between optometry, primary care, and wider system partners on health inequalities work.

Easy Eyecare Service

• Lead and support activities to increase awareness, understanding, and uptake of the Easy Eyecare Service among professionals and communities.
• Identify barriers to uptake and collaborate with stakeholders to develop practical solutions.

Programme and Project Delivery

• Undertake and support projects as specified by the Optometry Provider Board and/or Optometry Excellence Programme, within the agreed time commitment.
• Contribute to the planning, delivery, and evaluation of agreed initiatives, providing progress updates and outcomes as required.

Reporting and Governance

• Provide written and/or verbal updates to relevant groups, including the Optometry Provider Board.
• Ensure all work aligns with Greater Manchester priorities, policies, and governance arrangements.

Time Commitment
1 session per week (4 hours), with flexibility on how the time is used to best meet agreed objectives.