Job overview
Although this position is a 12 months fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 12 months.
A unique opportunity has arisen for a UK-registered health and care professional to lead system-wide antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) across Northeast London. This strategic role will champion improvements in governance, prescribing optimisation, and infection prevention, particularly targeting reductions in urinary sources of E. coli bacteraemia. This project is part of the NHS England ICB Antimicrobial Resistance Leadership and Governance Programme 2025/26 and the post will be hosted by BHRUT.
It will include working across both primary and secondary care; You will embed sustainable AMS frameworks that delivers measurable impact beyond the NHSE funding period. The role offers significant scope to influence transformation across the ICS, aligning stewardship with broader quality and safety agendas.
You must have a clinical background experience of managing improvement projects and hold a current registration with either the GMC, NMC, or GPhC, and bring substantial leadership experience in AMS and or IPC. A resilient leadership style, strong communication skills, and a collaborative mindset are essential attributes for this exciting opportunity.
Main duties of the job
The areas below reflect a high level of strategic accountability, requiring leadership across clinical, digital, and governance domains to deliver measurable system-wide impact.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.
We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Knowledge, training and experience
Essential criteria
1. Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist areas such as microbiology and infectious diseases with experience of surveillance and stewardship.
2. Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent. In leadership and management
3. Member of a professional body
4. Experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
Planning skills
Essential criteria
5. Skills to provide leadership, vision, strategic thinking coupled with highly developed political skills
6. Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.