Emergency Preparedness Resilience & Response (EPRR) Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work collaboratively with the Chairs for the EPRR Site Forums, and Hospital / MCS Directors of Operations to develop and mature the EPRR Site Forums. To build resilience, capability, knowledge and awareness and promote and raise the profile of EPRR within the Hospitals / MCS.

Working with Hospitals / MCS within the MFT Group to assess training needs and to develop and ensure delivery of EPRR training programmes to staff across all disciplines and all levels of the organisation, ensuring appropriate systems of recording training are in place.

To act as a Subject Matter Expert and be a source of resilience expertise for the group, Corporate Functions, Hospital / MCS EPRR Site Forums, and front line teams to develop and sustain operational capability and response plans.

To ensure MFT has a robust business continuity process and to work with Hospitals / MCS to ensure local business continuity plans are in place, these are maintained and tested appropriately.

Establish and maintain Incident Command and Control room facilities for response to incidents ensuring a state of readiness, appropriate resourcing and testing of capability.

To provide support in resilience, and responsible for leading and coordinating Trust activities to ensure MFT discharges its responsibilities in relation to the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and NHS England guidance.

Provides support to the operational management of the Group and Hospitals / MCS including providing a tactical response, on a best endeavour basis during significant incidents and emergencies during working hours and work flexibly in the event of an out of hours incident.

To ensure MFT meets its obligations with regards to the NHSE EPRR Framework Core Standards, undertaking of an annual self-assessment against these standards, and working with Hospitals/Managed Clinical Services to ensure robust evidence, plans and actions are in place to support compliance.

The post holder will be responsible for developing plans and guidance, ensuring that mechanisms are in place to ensure all staff with responsibilities set out within plans are trained and experienced in their role. The provision of expert advice to the Accountable Emergency Officer, Trust governance forums, and Hospitals / MCS in relation to EPRR.

Responsible for ensuring MFT meets its obligations and is compliant with the core standards for EPRR, liaising with Hospitals / MCS and corporate functions to undertake an annual self-assessment and collation of supporting evidence. To act autonomously in interpretation of NHSE or PHE policy and to support the setting of standards to be achieved by MFT. To provide assurance to the Director of Performance and EPRR of compliance with the standards, and or, highlighting areas of risk.

Engaging with key internal and external stakeholders including: Hospital / MCS Directors of Operations, other category 1 responders, GM Health and Social Care Partnership, CCG Shared Service, NWAS to ensure effective partnerships and co-operative working.

To develop consultative and collaborative partnership arrangements with multi agency partners to ensure coordination of responsive major incident and business continuity plans.

Develops and maintains strong and productive working relationships with Emergency Preparedness leads across a range of agencies, and participation in health economy EPRR forums.

To act as a point of contact and source of expertise on EPRR within the Group.

To identify and assess risks to the Trust associated with EPRR, highlighting these through the Trust governance structure and to Hospital / MCS, and consideration of inclusion on the Trust risk register with appropriate mitigation in place.

Develop and communicate information to the Group Executive Team, Hospital / MCS Leadership teams and front-line staff that may be complex and sensitive, in order to ensure they are updated and informed on risks and plans for EPRR.

To provide reports to relevant MFT forums and Committees in relation to EPRR.

To support audits undertaken in relation to EPRR

To develop an effective, capable and sustainable emergency preparedness function able to adapt and accommodate changes.

To ensure oversight and forecasting of organisational EPRR equipment requirements in line with EPRR Core Standards requirements.

To contribute to the development and learning of others, sharing EPRR expertise and knowledge with all staff and the development of a continuous learning culture.

Responsible for the line management of the EPRR team

Responsible for the allocation and prioritising of duties for the Team.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Attainment/ Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Master level or equivalent experience.
• Postgraduate Qualification in EPRR - i.e. RSPH level 4 Diploma in Health Emergency Preparedness, Resilience, and Response

Desirable

• Postgraduate Management Qualification preferably in a EPRR subject

Skills

Essential

• Knowledge and understanding of Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and related regulations and requirements of NHS Trusts in relation to the NHS England Core Standards for EPRR.
• Practical experience of managing emergency incidents at a strategic, tactical, operational level.
• Knowledge of ISO 22301 international standard for Business Continuity
• Proven track record of delivering Emergency Planning and / or Business Continuity agenda, including managing exercises; developing plans and delivering training in a complex multi-agency environment
• Experience of leadership, line management or supervision and performance management
• Highly specialist knowledge of the diverse range of policies, practices and services related to Emergency Planning, Resilience and Response, e.g. Business Continuity, CBRN and Flu Pandemic planning

Behaviours

Essential

• Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage competing priorities.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to accept differing points of view.
• Ability to convey and articulate complex and politically sensitive information appropriately
• Developing effective working relationships at a senior level.

Practical Skills

Essential

• Experience of developing and delivering training programmes across organisations. Facilitation and training skills
• Ability to travel easily within the Trust area

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Cobbett House

Oxford Road

Manchester

M13 9WL

Employer's website

https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)