EPRR Engagement Manager
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Job summary
NHS England Midlands EPRR team ensures the organisation and NHS funded organisations within the region are prepared to appropriately and efficiently respond to and recover from all business continuity, critical, major incidents and significant operational challenges and events, thus ensuring the continued delivery of healthcare at all times remains focused on the wellbeing of the patient and the population.
The EPRR team works across the Midlands region, interacting closely with colleagues from across the regions Integrated Care Boards, national EPRR, Local government, UK Health Security Agency and multi-agency partners, at strategic level, to ensure a coordinated response. EPRR manages and delivers the on-call out of hours function to enable the coordinated response to major incidents and emergencies, responding to ad hoc events related to wider NHS resilience above and beyond the typical major incident scenarios.
This role will require knowledge of EPRR, experience of management and programme management. The applicant will be expected to lead on specific EPRR projects and work areas to support the Midlands EPRR team.
Main duties of the job
As the Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response Engagement Manager, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Midlands to deliver the EPRR agenda and so ensure a resilient NHS in England.
The post holder will:
- support the development and delivery of the regional training and exercising programme, ensuring statutory exercises and training delivered
- strive for improvements across EPRR through the incorporation of learning from regional, national and international exercises and incidents
- represent NHS England at Local Resilience Forum events (as required), Local Health Resilience Partnerships and Health Emergency Planning Officers Groups supporting across 3 integrated care systems
- work across a variety of senior stakeholders to ensure the delivery of the EPRR work programme at a regional and ICB level
- lead key EPRR initiatives, working with teams across the area with EPRR functions to facilitate the changes required
- provide high quality strategic and operational EPRR policy advice, as the EPRR Tactical Advisor when on call
- proactively identify opportunities for improvement and utilize the EPRR annual assurance process to identify good and emerging practice
- contribute to short, medium- and long-term planning cycles, with a focus on achieving quality outcomes
- coordinate, support, and advise the systems in respect of emergency planning, business continuity and resilience matters,
About us
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS agreat place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Details
Date posted
29 May 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£50,952 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
990-S3-MID1221-A
Job locations
990 Derby - Cardinal Square
10 Nottingham Road
Derby
DE1 3QT
Employer details
Employer name
NHS England
Address
990 Derby - Cardinal Square
10 Nottingham Road
Derby
DE1 3QT
Employer's website
https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ (Opens in a new tab)
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