Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Apprentice

Job summary

Trainee Emergency Preparedness, Resilience & Response (EPRR) Officer Band 4

Are you looking for a new challenge? An exciting opportunity has arisen to start as a Trainee Emergency Preparedness, Resilience & Response Officer with Sirona care & health. We are seeking to recruit a proactive, innovative, and effective individual to join our EPRR team.

Would you like to get paid and gain nationally recognised qualifications?

An apprenticeship with Sirona care & health could be your first step towards a rewarding career. Your training will be based on an improvement practitioner apprenticeship and the RSPH Diploma in Health Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response.

You will be mainly be working within our EPRR team and will benefit from a variety of placements in our project management office, communications team and learning and development department.

Having the right attitude, work ethic and commitment to your education as well as your employment are essential requirements to this role.

This role is available across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

Main duties of the job

The Trainee EPRR Officer will be supported and developed to work with the EPRR team within Sirona. The work focuses around the EPRR workplan which helps Sirona deliver on the NHS England EPRR framework. The work includes working with formal documentation such as policies, plans and procedures ensuring that they are maintained up to date.

Supporting the operation of an Incident Control Centre in the event of a declared incident, and meetings across the organisation at senior levels, ensuring that minutes and actions are correctly recorded, stored and followed up is a key part of the job.

You will be engaging with staff across Sirona, and possibly other health and social care system partners, under the direction of the EPRR team, promoting the importance of preparedness and resilience and how it integrates into normal daily practice. Part of this will be supporting clinical and corporate teams in developing their own business continuity plans in line with international standards and NHS requirements.

You will be working closely with the Senior EPRR Officer, supporting with the planning and delivery of EPRR training and exercises. The role involves handling officially marked documentation, the monitoring of EPRR related communication channels, analysis of content and appropriate escalation and/or cascading of messages in a timely manner.

About us

We are Sirona care & health, a Community Interest Company committed to providing local communities with a range of high-quality specialist health care services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. For us, its about the personal approach; we take pride in what we do and deliver the high standard of care that we would expect for ourselves and our families.

At Sirona, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of colleagues, service users and communities. We therefore welcome applications from all those who feel they have the skills and attributes we are seeking.

Benefits:

We offer NHS Agenda for Change Salary, Terms and Conditions and an NHS pension scheme plus much more! Please see the benefits leaflet attached to this advert for more details.

Additional Information:

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received prior to the advertised closing date.

Employer details

Employer name

Sirona care & health CIC

Address

Kingswood Civic Centre

High Street

Kingswood

Bristol

BS15 9TR

Employer's website

https://www.sirona-cic.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Sirona care & health CIC

Address

Kingswood Civic Centre

High Street

Kingswood

Bristol

BS15 9TR

Employer's website

https://www.sirona-cic.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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