Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response Officer

Job overview

Working under the direction of the Head of EPRR, the post holder will be responsible for the development and delivery of emergency preparedness, resilience, and response planning within MSEFT.

The post holder will coordinate emergency plans and business continuity plans, working closely with the Heads of Service across clinical and corporate departments. This will include ensuring that effective and up to date plans are in place to comply with national, regional, and local guidance, along with ensuring the organisation meets its legal requirements as a Category 1 Responder, as described in the Civil Contingencies Act (2004).

The post holder will be a key point of contact for emergency preparedness matters within the organisation, providing advice, guidance, training, and support to the organisation and participating in system emergency planning meetings. The post holder will develop and coordinate processes and reports for resilience testing and exercising.

The post holder will be responsible for maintaining up-to-date plans and guidelines, coordinate any required reporting/SitReps and distributing key information across the organisation.

The postholder will be responsible for ensuring full EPRR compliance as directed under the NHSE Framework 2022. Ensuring all core standards are satisfactorily complied with.

The postholder will occasionally be required to work out of hours and some weekend working may be necessary.

Main duties of the job

Delivering all aspects of EPRR to ensure the Trust meets the NHSE EPRR core standards.

Develop, implement and maintain EPRR plans across the Trust.

Development, redesign and maintain the Incident Coordination Centres across the Trust.

Deliver a range of EPRR training and exercising across the Trust.

Provide support and specialist guidance to Trust response teams in the event of a major incident or business continuity incident at an operational and tactical level.

Assist in the production of service-level Business Impact Analysis and use the information gathered via this process to assist service leads to produce robust and comprehensive service-level Business Continuity plans.

Be responsible for completing regular audits and testing of incident coordination centre and CBRNe equipment.

Review and analyse complex clinical and non-clinical service responses to major, critical and business continuity incidents. Identify critical activities and ensure service level inter-decencies do not conflict with one another; adjust plans as required following review.

Responsible for Emergency Planning for the Trust including policy and plan development, implementation and review.

Represent the Trust at meetings with other authorities/organisations both health and non-health, in relation to emergency preparedness and resilience, fostering and developing good working relationships.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more details on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached job description.

We look forward to your application!