Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response Manager

Job summary

Main duties of the job

• To prepare, implement, test and evaluate emergency plans. Ensure that the Trust Major Incident Plan is compatible with other health and Emergency service plans and meets the statutory requirements of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004
• Ensure as far as is reasonably practical the competence of Trust staff and managers to deal effectively with extra ordinary incidents
• To manage and assess the risks associated with public events occurring within or impacting upon the Trust area. Evaluate and plan for any special medical arrangements required
• To manage the Trust preparedness for responding to, and mitigating the effects of and Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear (CBRN) or Hazardous Materials (Hazmat) incident
• Manage the Trusts capacity and preparedness to deal with a High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID) case/incident
• In liaison with the Trust Business Continuity Manager, contribute to the Trust Business Continuity Policy
• Manage, produce and update site-specific plans in accordance with national and statutory requirements
• Manage, prepare and propose updates to any Trust plan to ensure the Trust remains compliant with relevant legislation and EPRR best practice and contractual standards
• Participate in the Resilience Team on-call rota to provide specialist support and advice to incident commanders in the event of major or specialist incidents
• Remain up to date in National, NHS or emergency services strategies concerning civil protection issues as necessary

Job responsibilities

We employ 3,500 staff in 63 locations and serve a population of 2,600,000 in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham, and Tees over 3230 square miles.

Many people think the job of the ambulance service is to collect patients and take them to hospital, but we do much more!

Paramedic skills have developed hugely in recent years, meaning we carry out more treatment at the scene and en-route to hospital.

We have a dedicated clinical assessment service that allows us to provide patients with the most appropriate care from the beginning of the patient journey.

We have a specialised branch of the Trust called HART which deal with explosions or terrorist attacks.

Ultimately patients are the heart of everything that we do to support our mission of "safe, effective and responsive care for all".

We value and respect the diversity employees bring to our workplace. We recruit a workforce that reflects the community we serve, and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. To ensure we deliver on our aims in relation to diversity and inclusion we assess ourselves against a range of frameworks. We are ENEI Gold employer, Disability Confident Leader, Dyslexia Smart Award employer, Dementia Friendly, and part of Mind Blue Light programme and the Race at Work Charter from the Princes Responsible Business Network and are achieving across all objectives in NHS Equality Delivery System.