Job summary
Gloucestershire ICB have an exciting
opportunity for a Senior EPRR Manager in our Emergency Preparedness, Resilience
and Response (EPRR) Team. The team works collaboratively across the Integrated
Care System to ensure preparedness, response and resilient planning in line
with statutory guidance, alongside business continuity arrangements for the ICB
and our commissioned provider organisations to keep our patients and residents
safe. We have a very close relationship with our Multi-Agency stakeholders where
we perform a significant role within the Local Resilience Forum (LRF).
Main duties of the job
The Senior EPRR Manager will lead the work across the full spectrum of EPRR
disciplines including overseeing and delivering risk assessments, planning,
training and exercise design and delivery, response, and recovery, under the auspices of the Accountable
Officer for EPRR - the Chief Nursing Officer. Alongside this they will undertake duties to support business
continuity management and the ICB annual core standard assurance programme of
NHS funded providers throughout the Gloucestershire footprint. The successful
candidate will have a significant task in managing and maintaining our Incident
Co-ordination Centre (ICC) and supporting the Gloucestershire Tactical and
Strategic Coordination Centres at Police Headquarters.
We are looking for
a passionate, experienced, resilient professional with a can-do attitude and
flexible approach to adapt to situations as they evolve and unfold. If this is
you, we look forward to receiving your application.
About us
Our NHS Gloucestershire
Integrated Care Board (NHS Gloucestershire) is responsible for planning and
buying services to meet the health needs of local people. It also
brings partners together to ensure the counties NHS provides the best possible
care. Alongside our communities, we want to improve health, improve access to
high quality care and support when needed and make Gloucestershire a better
place for the future.
NHS Gloucestershire ICB
had the best staff survey result in 2023 for proportion of staff who would
recommend it as a place to work.
More information about our organisation can be found here: NHS Gloucestershire ICB (nhsglos.nhs.uk)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Leading on Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and
Response (EPRR) policy development, Business Continuity planning and
implementation including acting as the day-to-day management lead and expert on
matters relating to EPRR
Ensuring that up-to-date Business Continuity policies
and plans, incident response plans are developed, implemented, and maintained
across the ICB and that planning for Business Continuity in the event of an
emergency or untoward incident become embedded within the ICB Directorates
Ensuring that a programme of training and exercising for
on-call and other relevant staff in respect of EPRR and Business Continuity
responsibilities is developed and delivered.
Developing and delivering the ICB annual action plan for
EPRR ensuring this responds to actions identified through the NHS England assurance
process and moves the ICB to full compliance with standards.
Representing NHS Gloucestershire ICB in the Safer
Gloucestershire Partnership.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Leading on Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and
Response (EPRR) policy development, Business Continuity planning and
implementation including acting as the day-to-day management lead and expert on
matters relating to EPRR
Ensuring that up-to-date Business Continuity policies
and plans, incident response plans are developed, implemented, and maintained
across the ICB and that planning for Business Continuity in the event of an
emergency or untoward incident become embedded within the ICB Directorates
Ensuring that a programme of training and exercising for
on-call and other relevant staff in respect of EPRR and Business Continuity
responsibilities is developed and delivered.
Developing and delivering the ICB annual action plan for
EPRR ensuring this responds to actions identified through the NHS England assurance
process and moves the ICB to full compliance with standards.
Representing NHS Gloucestershire ICB in the Safer
Gloucestershire Partnership.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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.
- Must understand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between NHS England, individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Member of relevant professional body Institute)
Communication & Analytical Skills
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.at Strategic level as a senior manager within the ICB
- 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 a number of courses of action.
- Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
Planning Skills
Essential
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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.
- Must understand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between NHS England, individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Member of relevant professional body Institute)
Communication & Analytical Skills
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.at Strategic level as a senior manager within the ICB
- 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 a number of courses of action.
- Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
Planning Skills
Essential
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects
