# EPRR Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/eprr-manager/c361d5c9-e282-46f7-8fff-c9f99446db97 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/eprr-manager/c361d5c9-e282-46f7-8fff-c9f99446db97.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Cambridge - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 p.a. pro rata - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term / Secondment initially) - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Occasional out of hours work for response to incident. Full Time or Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered.) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-25T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-13T12:43:05.679Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Cambridge/Cambridge_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Division_Corporate_EPRR/Division_Corporate_EPRR-v8127215 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8127215?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cuh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Working within the Operations portfolio and reporting to the Head of EPRR, the EPRR Manager provides specialist operational leadership to ensure that the Trust can prepare for, respond to and recover from incidents. Working as part of the EPRR team, the post holder will support the Trusts in delivering their statutory duties as Category 1 Responders under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, the NHS England EPRR Core Standards, and the Health and Care Act 2022. The role involves the development, implementation, and maintenance of comprehensive incident response and business continuity arrangements, ensuring the Trusts are prepared for and resilient to major incidents, critical incidents, and business continuity disruptions. The post-holder will engage proactively with Divisions, Estates, Security, ICT/Telecoms, Governance & Risk, to develop and test integrated arrangements.  Represent the trust at Local Resilience Forum and Local Health Resilience Partnership meetings where appropriate and deputise for the Head of EPRR, promoting multi-agency partnership and advocating for acute health requirements. The post-holder will provide specialist advice to managers and on‑call teams during incidents and exercises, staff the Incident Coordination Centre (ICC) and maintain its readiness; deputise for the Head of EPRR when delegated. ### Main duties of the job Lead defined areas of the EPRR and business continuity work programme to ensure the Trusts, as Category 1 Responders, meet their statutory duties under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, the NHS England Core Standards for EPRR, and the Health and Care Act 2022, maintaining current expert knowledge of relevant legislation, national guidance, and policy. Provide specialist advice and support to the Trusts' staff  on all aspects of emergency preparedness, resilience, response, and business continuity, exercising independent professional judgement. Develop and maintain the Trusts' suite of business continuity plans, ensuring they are validated, tested, and reviewed following training, exercising, and incidents, and as part of the cyclical review schedule, and that mitigating arrangements identified through risk assessment are in place. Development and implementation of strategic and operational plans, policy and procedure. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities. Plus any additional requirements, i.e. - Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment or fixed term contract. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position. As per Home Office guidelines, please be aware that, unfortunately, the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular position. This vacancy will close at midnight on 25th August 2026. Interview dates will be communicated to successful applicants. Benefits to you At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff. On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH. CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times. Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered. We welcome applications from the Armed Forces. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - - Previous emergency planning and business continuity experience - - Experience developing, organising and delivering training packages/exercises to a wide variety of staff - - Experience in the production of reports, documents and presentations - - Experience of tracking activity and maintaining records to comply with governance requirements. **Desirable** - - Understanding of the local resilience forums, how health interacts with this and a good understanding of the NHS environment and roles and responsibilities within it - - Experience of participating in live incident response or major incident management - - Experience within specialist key areas - ie knowledge of quaternary care health emergency planning ### Qualifications **Essential** - - Relevant Degree or equivalent experience - - Recognised Teaching Qualification (GIC, PGCert, Level 3 award in training and education etc) - - Registration with relevant professional body (BCI, EPS etc) - - Professional Qualification eg Health Emergency Planning (HEP) Certificate/Award (or working towards HEP Diploma) **Desirable** - - JESIP Commander or equivalent course qualification - - HMIMMS Qualification/Instructor - - Principles in Health Command - - Clinical Registration and/or clinical experience in an acute or emergency care environment ## Documents - [applicant information pack (pdf, 864.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10449887) - [completing your application - information for applicants (pdf, 222.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10449886) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.