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219788 Head of Resilience (AP)

NHS Lothian

Location
Salary
£74,003 - £79,164
Grade
Band 8
Deadline
11 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
27 Jun 2025

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.

NHS Lothian is seeking a full time Head of Resilience (Band 8b) to lead emergency preparedness and business continuity planning across the full spectrum of acute, primary and community care. The post-holder will lead a small team of specialists focused on training, exercising, assurance and advisory processes to enable NHS Lothian to meet its obligations as a Category 1 responder.

We want a highly motivated individual with strong management and communication skills, in-depth knowledge of the NHS and resilience to take up this exciting opportunity. We are looking for someone with significant experience of providing that expert resource role advising on all aspects of civil contingencies to Chief Executives and their Senior Management Teams.

NHS Lothian is a £1.6bn organisation and covers the City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, East Lothian and Midlothian local authorities and serves a population of 800,000. Aside from the usual resilience challenges, Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, its seat of government and has the regional trauma hospital for the south east of Scotland. The Resilience Team is hosted in the Public Health Directorate and line management will be with the Director of Public Health.

For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions, please contact Jim Sherval - jim.sherval@nhs.scot or Ian Orr ian.orr@nhs.scot

Interviews to be held on 22nd July 2025 in person in Central Edinburgh

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.

NHS Lothian is seeking a full time Head of Resilience (Band 8b) to lead emergency preparedness and business continuity planning across the full spectrum of acute, primary and community care. The post-holder will lead a small team of specialists focused on training, exercising, assurance and advisory processes to enable NHS Lothian to meet its obligations as a Category 1 responder.

We want a highly motivated individual with strong management and communication skills, in-depth knowledge of the NHS and resilience to take up this exciting opportunity. We are looking for someone with significant experience of providing that expert resource role advising on all aspects of civil contingencies to Chief Executives and their Senior Management Teams.

NHS Lothian is a £1.6bn organisation and covers the City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, East Lothian and Midlothian local authorities and serves a population of 800,000. Aside from the usual resilience challenges, Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, its seat of government and has the regional trauma hospital for the south east of Scotland. The Resilience Team is hosted in the Public Health Directorate and line management will be with the Director of Public Health.

For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions, please contact Jim Sherval - jim.sherval@nhs.scot or Ian Orr ian.orr@nhs.scot

Interviews to be held on 22nd July 2025 in person in Central Edinburgh