Job summary
Do you have experience in emergency planning or business continuity within a large organisation? Want to put it to use in the NHS and help keep our patients and staff safe?
We're looking for an Emergency Planning Officer to join the team on maternity cover for 10 months until August 2024.
Our Emergency Planning team play a crucial role in keeping our hospitals, services, staff, and patients safe. It's their job to help us to effectively prepare for, plan and respond to major incidents - everything from winter weather, fires and floods, to cyber-attacks, loss of power, industrial action, and civil emergencies.
This is really interesting and varied role, and you'll contribute to everything from major incident plans and responses, risk assessments, planning and training sessions and resources, to staff debriefs, lessons learnt and cascading actions across key staff and teams.
We're looking for someone with a degree or at least one year's experience in emergency planning, ideally within the NHS or another large or public sector setting (Local Government, Fire Service, Police etc.). You'll also need great people skills, be able to get across complex information across to different staff and audiences, and a sound knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance for emergency planning in the NHS.
Main duties of the job
The team works with a wide variety of Trust staff across individual departments, sites and hospitals, our senior managers and directors, as well as regional and national agencies, partners and emergency services. Together they provide expert advice and support to make sense of complex legal requirements, mitigate the risk and impact of various adverse events, and draw up, test, and implement contingency plans to minimise the impact on our patients and keep services running smoothly no matter the situation.
In this role, you'll help to support our Head of Organisational Resilience and team of Business Continuity Leads to make sure our staff and clinical teams have effective, coordinated contingency and business resilience plans to respond to emergencies, and that they are well prepared through robust testing and training.
You'll also offer advice and support to make sure the Trust meets a range of best practice and statutory requirements, such as Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) 2004 and NHS Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR) guidance.
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of a maximum of ten months due to maternity leave of the substantive post holder. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts and statutory maternity provisions.
Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.
About us
You will be part of a team of four led by the Head of Organisational Resilience but will work closely with the business continuity leads across the 5 sites of the hospital.
Your will also work closely with the senior team during the running of an incident.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant degree or equivalent level of training and experience in an acute hospital setting.
- Diploma in Health Emergency Planning or equivalent.
Desirable
- Registered Nurse or Health Professional.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in Emergency Planning and Business Continuity
- Experience of working in and with multi- disciplinary teams and multi-agency environments. Supporting the delivery of projects across organisations
- Developing and maintaining business continuity and major incident plans
Desirable
- Practical experience of integrated emergency management activities, including risk assessment, business impact analysis, emergency planning, training and exercising
- Experience of supporting crisis management teams in responding to actual emergencies
- Experience of delivering training to a wide range of people.
Futher Training
Essential
- Level of awareness of emergency preparedness and resilience issues as outlined in :NHSE Core Standards for Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response The NHS Emergency Preparedness Framework (2013) The Civil Contingencies Act (2004) The Health and Social Care Act (2013) NHS England Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response Framework 2015
Specia Skills /Aptitudes
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to communicate effectively with staff at all levels.
- Good written and presentation skills
- Ability to assimilate, manage and communicate complex information
- Ability to analyse and summarise relevant elements of detailed reports and documents.
- Ability to develop a range of plans and documents for different audiences
- Ability to prioritise and organise a large volume of work with frequently changing priorities and work systematically towards deadlines.
- Understanding and appreciation of organisational culture and the skills required for implementing change
- High level of IT literacy - excellent knowledge of Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point and MS Teams
Desirable
- Current UK driving licence.
- Ability to develop good working relationships with clinical and non clinical staff.
- Ability to work on own initiative and under pressure.
- Ability to take responsibility and demonstrates ownership of tasks.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant degree or equivalent level of training and experience in an acute hospital setting.
- Diploma in Health Emergency Planning or equivalent.
Desirable
- Registered Nurse or Health Professional.
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in Emergency Planning and Business Continuity
- Experience of working in and with multi- disciplinary teams and multi-agency environments. Supporting the delivery of projects across organisations
- Developing and maintaining business continuity and major incident plans
Desirable
- Practical experience of integrated emergency management activities, including risk assessment, business impact analysis, emergency planning, training and exercising
- Experience of supporting crisis management teams in responding to actual emergencies
- Experience of delivering training to a wide range of people.
Futher Training
Essential
- Level of awareness of emergency preparedness and resilience issues as outlined in :NHSE Core Standards for Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response The NHS Emergency Preparedness Framework (2013) The Civil Contingencies Act (2004) The Health and Social Care Act (2013) NHS England Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response Framework 2015
Specia Skills /Aptitudes
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to communicate effectively with staff at all levels.
- Good written and presentation skills
- Ability to assimilate, manage and communicate complex information
- Ability to analyse and summarise relevant elements of detailed reports and documents.
- Ability to develop a range of plans and documents for different audiences
- Ability to prioritise and organise a large volume of work with frequently changing priorities and work systematically towards deadlines.
- Understanding and appreciation of organisational culture and the skills required for implementing change
- High level of IT literacy - excellent knowledge of Outlook, Excel, Word, Power Point and MS Teams
Desirable
- Current UK driving licence.
- Ability to develop good working relationships with clinical and non clinical staff.
- Ability to work on own initiative and under pressure.
- Ability to take responsibility and demonstrates ownership of tasks.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
