Job summary
NHS BOB ICBs ambition is to
create an inclusive working environment which reflects our commitment to
celebrate and promote diversity for all groups.
BOB Integrated Care Board have
an exciting opportunity for an experienced candidate to join the Emergency
Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) team, managing all aspects of EPRR
within the NHS, specialising in training and exercising and business continuity
programme delivery. This role will provide support to the Associate Director of
EPRR and SCC, ensuring EPRR work streams
and programmes of work are delivered.
Main duties of the job
When in post you will work as
part of a dynamic team to deliver an effective EPRR service, supporting
managers and staff across the Integrated Care Board and wider Integrated Care
System, to ensure a robust and resilient NHS response to any incident or event.
You will also manage all
aspects of the EPRR training and exercising portfolio including development and
delivery of the training and exercising plan and schedule, ensuring it is
aligned to key risks and NHS core standards. You will represent health and work
with multi-agency partners within the Local Resilience Forum in the Thames
Valley.
The successful candidate will be proactive and
able to work independently as well as part of a team, have previous experience
in EPRR and ideally have experience of working within the NHS. They will also
need to beeducated
to masters level or equivalent, such as the Diploma in Health EPRR.
About us
NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and
Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care Board is the statutory NHS organisation
responsible for planning and delivering health and care services for the
communities of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West.
We work collaboratively with partner
organisations including local government, the voluntary, community and social
enterprise sector, and people and communities across the BOB Health and Care
Integrated Care System (ICS).
Our key priorities are to
increase healthy life expectancy and reduce health inequalities for the 1.7
million people who live in our communities.
We value and promote diversity
and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best
employers are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to
increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications
from women, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT
communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of
disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.
Our Values are:
Respectful
we are inclusive
Impactful
we make a difference
Integrity
we are kind and fair
Leadership
we encourage leadership
Collaborative
we work together in a positive way
Job description
Job responsibilities
The applicant will enable the
ICB to:
Strengthen its approach to EPRR commissioning,
focusing on outcomes and joining up pathways of care across organisational
boundaries.
Focus on reducing unwarranted variation in EPRR
and address inequalities.
Develop EPRR
communities of practice with system partners including local
authorities.
Lead the development of the system to enable the
establishment of EPRR led provider collaboratives to improve pathways, deliver
service transformation and deliver best value within available resources.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The applicant will enable the
ICB to:
Strengthen its approach to EPRR commissioning,
focusing on outcomes and joining up pathways of care across organisational
boundaries.
Focus on reducing unwarranted variation in EPRR
and address inequalities.
Develop EPRR
communities of practice with system partners including local
authorities.
Lead the development of the system to enable the
establishment of EPRR led provider collaboratives to improve pathways, deliver
service transformation and deliver best value within available resources.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area (DipHEPRR or equivalent).
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must understand the background to and aims of current healthcare and related EPRR policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Should understand the relationship between the NHS England, provider, and commissioning organisations.
Other
Essential
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to line/senior Managers, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Adaptability, flexibility, and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals, and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions.
- Professional calm and efficient manner.
- Effective organiser, influencer, and networker.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and an understanding of equal opportunities.
Skills and Capabilities
Essential
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be several courses of action.
- Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy.
- Experience of researching best practice (globally, private, and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation).
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area (DipHEPRR or equivalent).
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must understand the background to and aims of current healthcare and related EPRR policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Should understand the relationship between the NHS England, provider, and commissioning organisations.
Other
Essential
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to line/senior Managers, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Adaptability, flexibility, and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals, and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions.
- Professional calm and efficient manner.
- Effective organiser, influencer, and networker.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and an understanding of equal opportunities.
Skills and Capabilities
Essential
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be several courses of action.
- Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy.
- Experience of researching best practice (globally, private, and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation).
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
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.
