EPRR Manager (Training & Governance)

Job summary

South East Coast Ambulance Service is seeking an experienced professional to join our resilience team on a substantive basis. While providing essential support to the trust, its multi-agency, and system partners. The position will specifically focus on the Command and Resilience Education workstreams, with an emphasis on quality improvement, governance, and assurance. The role covers the entire geographical area of the trust, with transportation provided and the option for remote work.

The Resilience Department is responsible for delivering the SECAmb's ongoing programme to increase the resilience of the Trust so that it is able to respond to Major Incidents and business disruptions, whilst continuing to deliver the critical services that its stakeholders and community rely upon.

The EPRR Team supports the delivery of the Trust's resilience programme by developing the relevant Trust policies, procedures and plans.The team collaborates with and co-produces plans with the Local Resilience Forums, Local Health Resilience Partnerships and Blue Light Forums.

EPRR Managers are key to the delivery of the EPRR agenda to the trust. This role will be responsible for contributing to the design and development of plans and ensuring delivery in line with Emergency Planning guidance

The post-holder will share specialist knowledge with all departments delivering specialist knowledge in relation to the emergency planning, business continuity and resilience agenda for SECAmb.

Main duties of the job

• Maintain and build on existing strong relationships with partners and key stakeholders such as Local Resilience Forums (LRFs), Local Health Resilience Partnerships (LHRPs), NHS partners (local/regional/national) and other agencies (e.g. other emergency services).

• To maintain and contribute to the development and implementation of action plans related to EPRR compliance requirements, business continuity and as a result of learning from incidents (including serious incidents, audit actions, etc)

• Responsible for supporting the writing of, and providing advice on appropriate Trust policies and operating procedures.

• Work with multiagency partners to ensure that Trust site specific plans are compliant with the range of relevant legislation, and are effective, reviewed and exercised.

• To respond to incidents / public events in a clinical, command or advisory capacity as required, ensuring a high level of knowledge and expertise is maintained, underpinned by theory and experience

• To ensure that the Trust maintains its resilience and is able to respond to Major, critical, Specialist/multiagency incidents and Business Continuity issues as per relevant guidance and legislation such as the Civil Contingencies Act (2004) or the NHS Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) Framework

About us

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust covers a geographical area of 3,600 square miles (Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex, Kent, Surrey, and North East Hampshire), including densely populated urban areas as well as more rural remote areas. In total SECAmb employs over 4,500 staff, working across 110 sites with almost 90 per cent of the workforce being made up of operational staff - those directly caring for patients.

The Resilience team work in partnership with all other teams and directorates across the Trust and are instrumental in both the planning and response functions of the organisation.