# MRP - EPRR Manager

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** NHS England
- **Location:** Victoria House
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Manager
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-28T23:59:59.999Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-14T11:58:20.264Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/Cambridge/NHS_England/Emergency_Planning_Resilience_Response/Emergency_Planning_Resilience_Response-v8360431
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8360431?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.england.nhs.uk/

## Job Content

### Job overview

As an EPRR Manager the postholder will work as part of a team in delivering an effective EPRR service across the East of England. This role will support the service in selected geographical localities liaising closely with partners, acting as duty tactical advisor and managing EPRR projects as required.

### Main duties of the job

- Lead and deliver EPRR programmes, projects and strategic initiatives, managing defined elements of the EPRR work programme and portfolio, leading key initiatives, monitoring delivery against plans and milestones, contributing to strategic planning, identifying interdependencies across the region, and ensuring appropriate contingencies are in place to support organisational resilience.
- Provide expert EPRR advice, guidance and system coordination, maintaining knowledge of national EPRR policy developments and their impact on health and care services, patients and the public, while coordinating, supporting and advising systems and partner organisations on emergency planning, business continuity, resilience, training, exercising and assurance activities to promote an integrated multi-agency approach.
- Deliver strategic, operational and tactical incident management support, providing specialist EPRR expertise on emergency preparedness and resilience matters, undertaking the role of Tactical Advisor during EPRR or UEC Operations incidents, ensuring incidents, operations, events and business continuity responses are managed effectively in line with legislation, guidance and best practice, and coordinating the response to emerging or actual incidents

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- Drive continuous improvement and organisational preparedness, proactively identifying opportunities to strengthen EPRR arrangements, utilising the Core Standards framework to prioritise improvements, and supporting the implementation of changes that enhance preparedness, resilience and response capabilities across the region.
- Lead lessons management, debriefing and organisational learning, coordinating debriefs and post-incident reviews, facilitating reflection and lessons identified processes, and ensuring learning is captured, monitored and embedded to improve future emergency planning, response and recovery arrangement
- Lead key EPRR initiatives; working with multi agency partners, Integrated Care Boards and regional colleagues.
- Keep up to date with EPRR policy developments across health and care, being mindful of the impact of EPRR policy development on others, including patients and the public.
- Proactively identify opportunities for improvement and utilise the core standards process to identify and prioritise the improvements necessary.
- Contribute to strategic planning of projects, identifying interdependencies across the region and potential impacts on the wider organisations and building in contingency and adjustment where necessary.
- Monitor delivery against plans and key milestones.
- Co-ordinate, support, and advise the systems in respect of emergency planning, business continuity and resilience matters, in liaison with relevant external partners, to facilitate an integrated approach.
- Provide subject matter expertise, in particular undertake the role of Tactical Advisor during an EPRR incident and provide specialist knowledge on matters relating to emergency planning and resilience.
- Ensure the annual EPRR core standards are undertaken on an annual basis, collating themes and trends to ensure ways of working are continuously improved.
- Attend health and multi-agency EPRR groups as requested/ required providing health liaison and input as well as administrative support.
- Use data to support monitoring, development and improvement of Business Continuity, Risk management, Impact analysis, projects, and reports.
- Build and maintain effective partnerships with other healthcare professionals, local authorities, other emergency services, the military, government agencies and the private sector.

You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

## Person Specification

### Other

**Essential**

- This role will require the incumbent to travel to and from the main office in Cambridge as well as attending meetings in person at various key stakeholder premises within the geographical area or other national NHSE sites
- Able to provide specialist EPRR expertise on emergency preparedness and resilience matters, undertaking the role of Tactical Advisor during EPRR incidents, ensuring incidents, operations, events and business continuity responses are managed effectively in line with legislation, guidance and best practice.

### Skills

**Essential**

- Well-developed analytical skills, able to interrogate multiple quantitative and qualitative data sources
- Able to lead and deliver EPRR programmes, projects and strategic initiatives, managing defined elements of the EPRR work programme and portfolio.
- Able to exercise own judgement and make objective decisions using specialist knowledge and understanding.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Educated to Masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.

**Desirable**

- Evidence of continued professional development
- Diploma in Health Emergency Planning

### Knowledge and experience

**Essential**

- Experience of identifying and interpreting national EPRR policy, guidance and legislation.
- Understanding of processes, policies and stakeholders within complex EPRR environment.
- Experience of working in a similar organisation and/or environment, and successfully influencing and managing stakeholders.

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 208.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10692946)
- [guide to completing your application (docx, 42.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1939)
- [nhse - verification of id and rtw guide (pdf, 306.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=996)
- [occupational functional requirements form (pdf, 69.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10692945)

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