Job summary
- Main area
- Operational Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 284-24-6191689-COCC
- Employer
- Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birmingham Children's Site
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 Per Anumn
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Emergency Planning and Resilience Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
The role of the Emergency Planning and Resilience Manager is to ensure that the Trust maintains its readiness to respond to unexpected events and emergencies, is building resilience to potential hazards, and is permanently
in a fit state to deliver a response to internal or external incidents through either a direct response (delivery of care to casualties, or enacting business continuity plans) or provision of support to other organisations (mutual aid).
The EPRR Manager is responsible for the management, production, implementation and regular
revision of effective:
• major and critical incident plans
• resilience strategies and plans
• business continuity plans
• exercise and training plans
• threat and hazard identification and response processes
Main duties of the job
Key results areas include:
• To develop the plans listed under ‘Job Purpose’ above
• To manage the delivery of communication of the above plans across the organisation.
• To manage the exercising and testing of Local Incident Response plans
• To develop and deliver the training of key staff in respect of the above Response plans.
To be a proactive member of the Trust’s EPRR Working Group
• To participate in regular external multi-agency networking within the local health economy
and local resilience community, as the Trust representative
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
EPRR (Emergency Preparedness, Resilience, and Response) Band 8B
Birmingham Women's and Children’s Hospital is seeking a dynamic leader to join our operations team. The post holder will be responsible for leading the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) arrangements for the Trust on behalf of the Chief Operating Officer as set out by the NHS England EPRR framework (2015) and the Civil Contingencies Act (2004). The post holder must have a strong understanding of this guidance and respond to any new and changing local, national, and statutory guidance in this field, ensuring that this is reflected in the training and internal guidelines.
The role will incorporate the development and deployment for all EPRR training and update of the on-call teams at all levels of the organisation. The post holder must be able to provide the ne assurance that all staff involved are aware of their role in this process and can provide robust evidence that plans are current and meaningful to all involved and that they are compliant with the EPPR (2015) framework and Civil Contingencies Act (2004).
The role will also lead the development and maintenance of Business Continuity Plans and their compliance with standard ISO 22301 and ISO 22313 across the Trust and will participate in the response plans of the Integrated Care System.
The post holder will also be responsible for reviewing any incidents and training exercises and ensuring that any lessons learnt are acted upon and included in any guidelines, training and plans moving forward.
We are seeking a strong leader, with demonstrable skills in setting up emergency preparedness systems, who is an experienced trainer and a strong completer-finisher. As this is a senior role at AFC Band 8B, the banding reflects the nature and breadth of skills required for leading EPPR and compliance with Civil Contingencies Act in a complex and diverse specialist Trust.
Please refer to the Trust website for further information about the organisation and for further and detailed information about the post please contact Scott Hancock
Closing date is 4th May 2024
Interviews will be held week commencing 20th May and will be a combined competency demonstration and panel interview.
Person specification
Emergency Planning Experience
Essential criteria
- 2 years
curent Emergency Planning Role in Healthcare
Essential criteria
- 2 years
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Diploma in Health Emergency Planning (DipHEP) or PGCert in Emergency Planning or equivalent or willing to undertake such a qualification
- Masters Degree in a relevant subject
Desirable criteria
- Teaching and assessing qualification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering change in a complex environment
- Experience in budgetary and resource management
- Knowledge, understanding and experience in Risk Management and Governance issues
- Experience of developing business continuity plans
- Experience gained of an incident response whether an actual incident or through training
- Knowledge of Major Incident and Critical Incident Response plans from working within a public sector service
- Experience of formal reporting to Senior Management / Board through a variety of media / modes of communication
Desirable criteria
- Site management experience in a complex organisation
- Evidence of leading initiatives within multiprofessional teams
- Project management experience
- Knowledge of the NHS in the context of emergency planning
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to interpret national policy and guidance and turn into practical local actions required
- Ability to identify proportionate actions in addressing hazards and risks, and organizational planning responses
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Scott Hancock
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Operating Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 333 8416
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