Policy & Delivery Manager

As a Policy and Delivery Manager focused on Pharmacy, Optometry, Dentistry and Audiology you will play a significant role to build our profile and influence with wider primary care to support us to grow our membership. You will:

• continue to build relationships with stakeholders and national partners to facilitate the expansion of the Network to include community pharmacy, ophthalmology, audiology and dentistry.


• manage specific policy projects on a responsive basis, individually or working collaboratively with the wider policy team, and across Confed.


• engage regularly with our members, gathering their views and facilitating the sharing of best practice through events, webinars and conferences.


• keep abreast of national developments relevant to our membership, translating national guidance into digestible summaries that encourage discussion and different ways of thinking., This role sits within the Primary Care Network team, which brings together primary care with the rest of the health and care system, supporting, representing, and empowering our members to maximise the impact they have on patient care and drive change.


It is a part-time, 12-month role focused on building our network to incorporate the full breadth of primary care providers (specifically community pharmacy, optometry, dentistry and audiology) and establish an offer to members that capitalises on the opportunities to work more effectively across the primary care sectors as well as with other health and care providers.

With delegated commissioning of POD (pharmacy, optometry, and dentistry) to ICBs there is also an opportunity to work across the two networks to improve local commissioning of these services by bringing commissioners and providers together.

This will mean we are the only national organisation bringing together the whole of primary care, through providers and stakeholders, to focus on action rather than discussion.

The NHS Confederation is the membership body for the NHS, which brings together and speaks on behalf of all parts of the health system. Our membership spans the full range of organisations that provide and commission services, including acute, community, mental health and ambulance service trusts; primary care providers; and integrated care systems.

We work across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and have a European Office. The NHS Confederation is also contracted by the Department of Health and Social Care to provide the NHS Employers service, which acts on behalf of employers within the NHS provider sector in England. This places us in a strong position to influence workforce policy development and implementation.

Through our networks we speak on behalf of providers and commissioners across the different sectors, but we are also uniquely placed to articulate the interests of the whole healthcare system. We believe this role is more vital than ever as every part of England moves adapts to operating as integrated care systems. Our strength lies in the diversity of our membership and our ability to bring together all parts of the health and care system to develop solutions to major challenges.