Overview of the role
Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP) Lead (3 Days)
Team: People Team
Reports to: Clinical Development Manager
Location: Hybrid, with regular travel to Manchester
Hours: Full-Time (Split: 3 days NMP Lead / 2 days IP Practice) The 2 days IP Practice could be in other healthcare settings
Contract Type: Permanent
Shape the Future of Prescribing – While Staying Clinically Active!
We’re excited to offer a unique opportunity for a passionate pharmacist Independent Prescriber who wants to combine clinical leadership with hands-on prescribing practice. Join us as our Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP) Lead, working 3 days a week as part of our dynamic People Team, while continuing to work as a Pharmacist Independent Prescriber (PIP).
In this hybrid role, you’ll help shape and grow safe, effective prescribing services across our organisation, while staying close to what you love—delivering great care to patients.
What You’ll Be Doing
Clinical Governance & Leadership
Ensure IP practices across the organisation are safe, effective, and aligned with clinical governance frameworks.
- Monitor, audit, and standardise prescribing practices UK-wide.
- Develop IP strategy and embed frameworks develop clinical knowledge and IP skills amongst prescribers
- Lead audits, review safety incidents, and develop SOPs and policies.
- Oversee IP service delivery, site sign-ups, and payment claims.
- Be the go-to expert for stakeholders across pharmacy, training providers, and regulators.
Communication & Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as the main point of contact for all things IP—before, during, and after qualification.
- Build strong internal and external relationships with prescribers, regulators, training partners, and service teams.
- Communicate updates, policies, and best practices clearly and effectively.
Support & Development
- Help remove barriers for new and existing prescribers—whether it’s training, confidence, or resource access.
- Building our internal DPP network to support new IPP’s
- Support prescribers in safely expanding their scope of practice.
- Ensure systems are in place to raise concerns or escalate to professional bodies when needed.
Independent Prescribing in Practice (2 Days)
- Stay clinically current by working 2 days per week in an active prescribing role (within Well or externally).
- Deliver high-quality, patient-centred care that keeps you engaged and informed with day-to-day practice realities.
What You’ll Bring
Must-Haves:
- GPhC-registered pharmacist and qualified Independent Prescriber
- Strong understanding of prescribing governance, NHS frameworks, and clinical risk management.
- Experience in leading or influencing prescribing services or policy.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
Nice-to-Haves:
- Experience in prescriber training or enrolment support.
- Familiarity with IP frameworks across different UK nations.
- Passion for developing people and improving clinical services.
Why Join Us?
- Make real impact in shaping safe, innovative prescribing models.
- Stay hands-on in practice while influencing national strategy.
- Work flexibly in a collaborative and supportive People Team.
- Grow your leadership in a role that blends strategy, governance, and patient care.
- Contribute to a culture where patient safety and colleague development go hand in hand.
Ready to lead and prescribe?
Apply today with your CV and a short covering letter explaining what excites you about this unique hybrid role.
The Ideal Candidate
Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.
Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.
About the Company
For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.
Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.
The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.
We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.
We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.
‘Together we make a difference’
