Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) Manager

Job overview

Reporting to the Deputy Chief Operating Officer for Kettering General Hospital, the post holder will be responsible for ensuring a continued state of preparedness across University Hospitals Northampton (UHN) comprising Kettering General Hospital and Northampton General Hospital to respond to any major or significant incident both planned and unscheduled ensuring, that where practical, measures are in place to maintain continuity of its core business.

The post holder will ensure that legal and regulatory requirements that apply to UHN are met including training, planning and co-ordination working with NHSE/I, Local NHS Commissioners, multi-agency partners and the local resilience forum.

The post holder will further develop expertise in emergency planning and seek to develop good practice by using lessons identified from experiences and debriefs of incidents, exercises and events nationally.

The post holder will ensure that emergency planning and resilience is an integral part of business planning, strategy and operations across UHN.

The post holder would be required to be available in the event of a major or significant

The post holder will be responsible for coordinating all Business Continuity Activity (including Business Continuity Plans and Business Continuity Impact Analysis and ensuring all areas have the right plans in place to respond to incidents and periods of disruption.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for the preparation, maintenance, exercising and compliance of UHN Emergency Preparedness, Business Continuity and Resilience Plans in accordance with local and national guidance.
• Responsible for ensuring that UHN is compliant with all statutory requirements appertaining to emergency and resilience planning with reference to the Civil Contingency Act and regulations which are derived from the Act including

a) The CCA 2004 and associated Cabinet Office Guidance

b) The NHS Act 2006 (as amended)

c) The NHS Constitution

d) The requirements for EPRR as set out in the NHS Standard Contract(s)

e) NHS England EPRR guidance and supporting materials including:

1.    NHS England Core Standards for Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response

2.    NHS England Business Continuity Management Framework (service resilience) 2022

f) Other guidance available at http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/eprr/f) National Occupational Standards for Civil Contingencies

g) BS ISO 22301 Societal security – Business continuity management systems

h) Emergency Preparedness guidance (2012)

• To ensure that the Trusts Major Incident and Business Continuity Plans are robust, regularly reviewed and updated and that effective communications arrangements are in place throughout the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Head of Emergency Preparedness, Resilience & Response (EPRR) will manage the EPRR team and its portfolio covering the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire including Northampton General Hospital and Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust, ensuring the Trust remains resilient to incidents and disruptive events. The EPRR Team will enable the organisation, as a Category 1 responder, to meet the full statutory duties under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, ensuring alignment of the Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) to ISO22301 and NHS England Core standards for EPRR, and evolving national guidance, supporting the site operations team to manage incidents effectively.

To ensure the delivery of effective and comprehensive planning arrangements at the Trust, Divisional and Service level underpinned by a coherent overall strategic approach to EPRR.