Job summary
- Main area
- Resilience
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 125-ICB031-25
- Employer
- NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- County Hall
- Town
- Preston
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) are seeking to recruit an Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Manager.
This role will be pivotal to ensuring that the ICB continues to provide effective planning, response and resilience arrangements for incidents and emergencies.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work corporately as a subject matter expert to ensure that the ICB is compliant with its duties as a
Category 1 Responder under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004), whilst adhering to the current NHS England Emergency Preparedness,
Resilience and Response Framework and assuring against the current NHS England Core Standards for Emergency Preparedness Resilience
and Response, the post holder will have the opportunity to drive and improve response through the ICB.
The post holder will additionally be available to support the ICB in response to a Major Incident or Significant Incident where specialist advice is required. This will enable the post holder to apply previous knowledge and experience as detailed below.
Working for our organisation
NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB)
Our role as an ICB is to join up health and care services, improve people's health and wellbeing, and make sure everyone has the same access to
services and gets the same outcomes from treatment.
We also oversee how money is spent and make sure health services are working well and are of high quality.
Involving our communities is really important to us. We are committed to putting the needs of people living in Lancashire and South Cumbria at the
heart of all we do.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Knowledge and Experience
• Detailed knowledge of the emergency planning/business continuity statutory and regulatory framework within the UK (i.e., Civil
Contingencies Act 2004)
• Knowledge and understanding of project management arrangements and how to apply them in practice
• Knowledge and management of risk management arrangements and the application of such arrangements
• Knowledge of the organisational and management structures of the NHS
• Knowledge of the emergency planning/business continuity guidance for the NHS
• Knowledge and understanding of COMAH (Control of Major Accident Hazard) and REPPIR (Radiation Emergency Preparedness and
Public Information Regulations) emergency planning arrangements
• Demonstrable and significant experience of working at senior management level within the NHS or category 1 responder emergency
service
• Demonstrable working experience of emergency planning/business continuity planning particularly during periods of change.
• Experience in responding (including advising and managing) to emergency and business continuity incidents
• Significant experience in delivering, developing and assessment of training as well as the ability to ensure the training remains current
in line with changing legislation.
Qualifications
• Master’s degree qualification (or equivalent experience) in emergency planning and business continuity
• Diploma in Health Emergency Planning (Dip HEP)
• Current and in date training qualification
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or significant equivalent knowledge, skills and experience in emergency planning and business continuity
- Diploma in Health Emergency Planning (Dip HEP) Training qualification or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Project Management Qualification or equivalent
- Evidence of previous CPD
Skills
Essential criteria
- Strong personal effectiveness skills
- Able to elicit appropriate information from others to inform functional and service requirements
- Able to present complex information in a range of formats to a diverse range of audiences
- Able to understand the needs and pressures on a specialist service within the context of increasing demand for efficiencies and change
Desirable criteria
- Able to articulate and influence at a variety of levels e.g. with staff teams as well as other internal & external stakeholders
- Able to produce & present performance data, quality monitoring reports and service improvement plans in a clear, concise manner
- Project management skills
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties 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
- Alison Whitehead
- Job title
- Head of EPRR
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07747233821
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Level 1
Fusion House
Evolution Park
Blackburn
Lancashire
BB1 2FD
- Telephone
- 01254 732075
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