About this role
Job summary
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.
About us
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.
Job description Job 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.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Pubudu Chandrasekera, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5110. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
Person Specification
Knowledge, training and experience Essential
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. 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 Member of a professional body Experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
Planning skills Essential
Skills to provide leadership, vision, strategic thinking coupled with highly developed political skills Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Address Across Sites
Rom Valley Way
Romford
RM7 0AG
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)