IOW Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

The role requires building strong relationships with Category 1 and Category 2 responders, coordinating multiagency planning and preparedness activities, and presenting highly complex information to internal and external stakeholders. The post holder will support incident response by providing expert tactical advice, leading and/or coordinating debriefs following significant events, contributing to statutory assurance processes such as the NHS England Core Standards assessments and CQC inspections, and ensuring that EPRR and business continuity risks are incorporated into relevant governance systems. In addition, they will manage elements of EPRRrelated budgets, oversee the delivery of EPRR and resiliencerelated training programmes, linemanage staff within the EPRR team, and ensure that the organisation is prepared to respond effectively to emergencies, critical incidents and largescale public events.

To provide senior leadership and expert oversight for emergency planning across the Isle of Wight NHS Trust, with specific responsibility for the acute hospital. The post holder will ensure the organisation meets all statutory and regulatory EPRR requirements, maintaining robust plans, training, and assurance processes to support effective incident response and organisational resilience.

In addition to leading EPRR for the acute services, the role will act as an Emergency Planner for the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service. Working closely with the Ambulance EPRR Tactical Advisor, the post holder will support joint planning, exercises, and incident response arrangements across the 999, NHS 111 and PTS functions.

To strengthen wholesystem preparedness, ensure seamless coordination between acute and ambulance operations, and enhance the Trusts ability to respond to major incidents, critical events, and system pressures.

The EPRR Lead will build strong internal and external partnerships, provide expert guidance during live incidents, and champion a culture of resilience across all parts of the Trust and the wider healthcare system.

To ensure that the Acute and Ambulance Services maintain resilience and can respond to incidents and Business Continuity issues as per relevant national guidance and legislation such as the Civil Contingencies Act (2004) or the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) Framework.

To manage and co-ordinate all aspects of the Acute and Ambulance Services significant and major incident planning including large scale public events.

To manage major initiatives or programmes, as agreed with the Group Head of Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR). This will be in the form of specific workstreams.

To lead, plan, support, facilitate and monitor progress of allocated workstream(s) within or across the Acute and Ambulance Service.

For a full list of roles and responsibilities, please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Emergency Planning Post Graduate Qualification (minimum diploma in Health Emergency Planning or equivalent specialist qualification/experience working towards)

Desirable

• Master's Degree in appropriate subject
• Security Clearance to SC Level

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable specialist knowledge of Civil Contingencies Act (2004) and how it is delivered at a local level
• Demonstrable knowledge of NHS Transition and how it will change the delivery of CCA at a local and regional level
• Demonstrable knowledge of NHS major incident/business continuity plans and procedures
• Demonstrable specialist knowledge of issues such as Chemical biological Radioactive and Nuclear (CBRN0, infectious diseases, explosions etc, command and control structures, post/decontamination issues
• Demonstrable in depth knowledge in current threats

Desirable

• Experience Tactical advisor duties
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in conventional and CBRN at operational and Tactical Level

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

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Address

Isle of Wight NHS Trust, St Mary's Hospital

St Mary's Hospital

Newport

PO31 8JW

Employer's website

https://www.iow.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)