Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience & Response (EPRR) Team, working across University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust's ten hospital sites.
We are seeking to appoint a high calibre and credible individual. You must be dynamic, innovative and motivated , passionate about EPRR, putting the patient experience first, and someone who shares our trust values. Experience in a similar role in a complex environment is essential.
The post holder will be capable of working under pressure, prioritising to deadlines and multi-tasking. Good motivation, persuasion and planning skills are also essential. Your skills will have been ideally developed in an NHS environment and you will bring energy and a resilient leadership style. The post requires a high standard of communication, analysis, clear thinking and organisational skills and offers excellent opportunities for career development.
Whilst the role can have an element of flexible working roles, regular on-site attendancewill be expected across all hospital sites
Main duties of the job
The Emergency Preparedness, Resilience & Response (EPRR) Manager is a high-profile role with trust wide responsibility and will act as part of the EPRR Team, working to achieve its objectives to ensure the trust remains resilient to incidents and disruptive events.
The team function is to enable the organisation as a Category 1 responder, to meet the full statutory duties under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, ensuring alignment of the Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) to ISO22301 and NHS England Core standards for EPRR, and to evolving national guidance, supporting the site operations team to manage incidents effectively.
The EPRR Manager ensures that EPRR risks are proactively managed and that learning from incidents is implemented. The role provides expert advice to services to ensure appropriate plans are in place, and delivers training and exercising from floor to board to ensure staff are knowledgeable of and confident in their roles so as to minimise impact on performance from both routine and more serious disruptions.
The EPRR Manager acts as a specialist lead and advisor to the trust Senior Leadership Team and the professional link for regulators, external partners and interested parties, leading on EPRR assurance and operational planning.
If this sounds like the role for you, then please do get in touch.
About us
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Degree, or equivalent working experience, in emergency planning / disaster management or a related subject such as DipHEPRR
- Evidence of continual professional development and acquiring new skills / knowledge
- Formal Teaching/ training qualification to level 3 (BTEC/ City and guilds)
- Structured debrief facilitation qualification (PHE/ UKHSA/ College of Policing)
Desirable
- CBCI certificate from the Business Continuity Institute (
- Incident decision loggist training qualification (PHE/UKHSA)
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates highly developed specialist knowledge across the range of EPRR/ civil protection work, procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and relevant practical experience.
- Experience of project management
- Demonstrable experience of managing people
- Demonstrable understanding of the general and specific statutory requirements relating to emergency planning and the resilience 'arena'
- Experience of developing effective working relationships in a multi-agency environment
- Experience of promoting and developing emergency planning activities at strategic and operational levels
- Understanding of risk management and experience of implementing business continuity programmes across organisations
- Experience of undertaking audits and gap analysis, summarising findings and making associated recommendations
- Knowledge of duties imposed on the Trust by legislation, NHS Policy and the requirements of Corporate Governance
- Experience of report writing for a Board level audience
- Experience of design and delivery of EPRR training across strategic, tactical and operational levels including JESIP Principles.
Desirable
- Significant EPRR experience
- Excellent working knowledge of digital tools and techniques including use of Shared platforms such as Resilience Direct, Future NHS and the range of Microsoft office application programme
- Experience of exercise design and delivery including the use of "Emergo"
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Required to use a standard keyboard and have a good knowledge of using a variety of digital systems and devices
- Analytical and judgemental skills- Analise situations and manage information involving highly complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options. Able to make judgements about situations which may have unique characteristics and where there are a number of complicated aspects to take into account which do not always have obvious solutions in order to make recommendations
- Planning and organisational skills - Formulating long-term, strategic plans, which involve uncertainty and which may impact emergency preparedness across the whole organisation.
- Policy and service development implementation- Responsible for the EPRR policy and business continuity management system for the organisation.
- Responsibility for financial and physical resources- Budget holder for the EPRR Unit refers to responsibility for authorising expenditure and accountable for expenditure within an allocated budget
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Degree, or equivalent working experience, in emergency planning / disaster management or a related subject such as DipHEPRR
- Evidence of continual professional development and acquiring new skills / knowledge
- Formal Teaching/ training qualification to level 3 (BTEC/ City and guilds)
- Structured debrief facilitation qualification (PHE/ UKHSA/ College of Policing)
Desirable
- CBCI certificate from the Business Continuity Institute (
- Incident decision loggist training qualification (PHE/UKHSA)
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates highly developed specialist knowledge across the range of EPRR/ civil protection work, procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and relevant practical experience.
- Experience of project management
- Demonstrable experience of managing people
- Demonstrable understanding of the general and specific statutory requirements relating to emergency planning and the resilience 'arena'
- Experience of developing effective working relationships in a multi-agency environment
- Experience of promoting and developing emergency planning activities at strategic and operational levels
- Understanding of risk management and experience of implementing business continuity programmes across organisations
- Experience of undertaking audits and gap analysis, summarising findings and making associated recommendations
- Knowledge of duties imposed on the Trust by legislation, NHS Policy and the requirements of Corporate Governance
- Experience of report writing for a Board level audience
- Experience of design and delivery of EPRR training across strategic, tactical and operational levels including JESIP Principles.
Desirable
- Significant EPRR experience
- Excellent working knowledge of digital tools and techniques including use of Shared platforms such as Resilience Direct, Future NHS and the range of Microsoft office application programme
- Experience of exercise design and delivery including the use of "Emergo"
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Required to use a standard keyboard and have a good knowledge of using a variety of digital systems and devices
- Analytical and judgemental skills- Analise situations and manage information involving highly complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options. Able to make judgements about situations which may have unique characteristics and where there are a number of complicated aspects to take into account which do not always have obvious solutions in order to make recommendations
- Planning and organisational skills - Formulating long-term, strategic plans, which involve uncertainty and which may impact emergency preparedness across the whole organisation.
- Policy and service development implementation- Responsible for the EPRR policy and business continuity management system for the organisation.
- Responsibility for financial and physical resources- Budget holder for the EPRR Unit refers to responsibility for authorising expenditure and accountable for expenditure within an allocated budget
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).
