Job summary
- Main area
- Planning
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 025-AC366-1024
- Employer
- Digital Health and Care Wales
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hybrid working
- Town
- Location to be confirmed at interview
- Salary
- £63,150 - £73,379 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Emergency Planning Lead
Band 8b
Digital Health and Care Wales is an ambitious organisation created by Welsh Government to lead on the digital transformation of health and care. It builds on the digital architecture and national services put in place by the NHS Wales Informatics Service over the past decade.
The organisation will lead on large-scale developments that make a significant difference to the people of Wales as well as to health and care professionals, such as expansion of the digital patient record and the creation of a National Data Resource. It will improve the way data is collected, shared and used. Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2024/2025 and will be implemented in November 2024 backdated to 1st April 2024 where applicable.
Job overview
Digital Health and Care Wales has set an ambitious objective to provide world leading digital services, empowering people to live healthier lives. An opportunity has arisen for an experienced, highly motivated and enthusiastic Emergency Planning Lead to join us as we deliver data and technology to health organisations across primary, community and tertiary care in Wales.
This role is all about providing leadership and support for the organisation’s statutory responsibilities for emergency preparedness and response.
Main duties of the job
These include supporting the provision of an efficient, effective and high quality professional and well co-ordinated Emergency Planning and Business Continuity function capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements. This includes preparedness, response and resilience.
The post holder will act as the lead for these functions and as an advisory resource to the Executive Team and all directorates. The post holder will be responsible for developing and managing relevant organisational wide plans and processes and for co-ordinating engagement with key stakeholders at local, Wales and UK level.
The postholder will deliver relevant training and exercising to test organisational and national plans with scenarios that align to local and national risk assessment requirements
Working for our organisation
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is part of the NHS Wales family and has an important role in changing the way health and care services are delivered through technology and data. The organisation supports frontline staff with modern systems and access to important information about their patients, while empowering the people of Wales to manage their own health through digital NHS Wales services.
Working for DHCW offers lots of employee benefits, including flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays and opportunities for career development. We are committed to recognising and celebrating our staff as the most valuable part of our organisation.
Join our game changing, life-saving team and start making a real difference to health and care services in Wales.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
(see Main duties of the job)
The skills needed are:
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Excellent communication skills including during rapidly changing situations
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Clarity of expression – able to focus internal and external stakeholders on key issues and actions
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Confident and persistent with an ability to multitask and display good stress management skills
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Interpreting highly complex information and situations
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters degree level and / or equivalent relevant experience and knowledge in the specialist fields of emergency planning, response and resilience, programme management or business continuity
- Understanding of emergency planning and business continuity legislation, regulations and standards.
- Fully conversant with national command, control and coordination requirements including competence to fulfil the necessary roles of a Tactical (Silver) leader
Desirable criteria
- Formal teaching qualification e.g. Post Graduate Certificate of Education.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Effective cooperative working with partner agencies in a resilience setting during a critical occurrence / major incident / high profile public event.
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to undertake business impact analysis, gap analysis and risks assessments
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ruth Chapman
- Job title
- Assistant Director of Planning
- Email address
- [email protected]
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