Project Manager for Community Pharmacy Pathfinders

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) are providing an exciting opportunity as a project manager for Community Pharmacy Integration projects especially the Community Pharmacy Independent Prescriber Pathfinder project.The strategic aim of the Pathfinder programme is to develop a commissioning framework that will support the commissioning of independent prescribing as part of clinical services in community pharmacy. From September 2026 all newly qualified pharmacists will be independent prescribers on the first day of registration, and this presents an opportunity for NHS England to commission clinical services from community pharmacists.The pharmacy integration programme currently covers a range of clinical services in Community Pharmacy such as oral contraception, hypertension case finding and the Discharge Medicines Service., This role will be responsible for the management and delivery of the Community Pharmacy Prescribing Pathfinder Programme, and you will have the opportunity to work through the practical and professional issues which need to be addressed before independent prescribing can be embedded in day-to-day practice and within the NHS contractual framework.You will also support other Community Pharmacy Integration work such as Pharmacy First.

NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. We were formed with the intention to improve population health and collaborate with local partners (NHS, Local Authority and Third Sector) to deliver high quality health and social care provision to our local population.We have accountability for the system delivery of the ICS' priorities such as improving outcomes in population health and healthcare, tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access, enhancing productivity and value for money, and helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.We seek to improve the patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer access and choice to our patients. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it's important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the