Job summary
- Main area
- Performance, EPRR, emergency planning
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 8 months (Contract duration 1 October 2024 - 31 May 2025)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 990-EOE-6423414-e
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Victoria House
- Town
- Fulbourn
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
EPRR Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
As an Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) Manager the postholder will report to the Senior EPRR Manager (Geography) and will be responsible for supporting the delivery of an effective EPRR service across the East of England.
The postholder will manage selected geographical localities, liaising closely with partners and systems to provide specialist EPRR/incident management knowledge and support in respect of emergency planning, business continuity and resilience matters.
Main duties of the job
This role has an on-call function and, as such, the postholder will ensure that the management of planned and unplanned incidents, operations and events is effective and efficient, and carried out in accordance with current best practice, guidance and legislation. This will involve joining an EPRR duty manager rota which provides cover 24/7/365.
The post holder will be required to work within the Regional Operations Centre, Victoria House, and provide support to the planning and delivery of virtual and face to face training and exercises.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be required to travel to the office and partner organisations to engage with and provide assurance of their geographical area of responsibility.
This is a maternity cover post of 8 months with the start date of 1 October 2024.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Person specification
Qualifications and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Professional EPRR qualification (e.g DipHEP) or equivalent level of operational experience at a similar level in healthcare or public sector environment.
- Excellent understanding of legislation, policies and procedures within a complex EPRR environment and competent in providing EPRR policy advice/acting as a tactical advisor on a range of complex topics to senior stakeholders and the ability to apply this within the local context.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to develop, review and amend EPRR plans taking into account learning from incidents and exercises, including the ability to conduct after action reviews/post incident/exercise debriefs.
- Able to develop and facilitate emergency planning exercises across the Region
Other
Essential criteria
- Recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion (including the EPRR impact on health inequalities) in delivering our role in the health and care system.
- Ability to travel to and work from the Regional Operations Centre, Victoria House, Fulbourn and the flexibility to work weekends and bank holidays on a shared rota basis due to the nature of a 7-day a week / 365 days a year service provision
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Catherine Jones
- Job title
- Senior EPRR Manager Geographical
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07710152847
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