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Job summary

Main area
Emergency Preparedness, Resilience, and Response (EPRR)
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
824-CORP-7409210
Employer
Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Parsons Green Health Centre
Town
London
Salary
£56,276 - £63,176 Per Annum, inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
22/08/2025 23:59
Interview date
03/09/2025

Employer heading

NHS

Emergency Preparedness, Resilience, and Response Officer

Band 7

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

Job overview

Do you have a passion for emergency preparedness and resilience? Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Emergency Preparedness professional to join us as the Emergency Preparedness Resilience & Response (EPRR) Officer.

The post holder will report to and support the Head of EPRR, Patient & Staff Logistics in ensuring CLCH NHS Trust is compliant with its responsibilities defined in the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (CCA). The post holder will provide the professional emergency planning expertise to the Trust's emergency preparedness, resilience, and response agenda.

You will ensure compliance with relevant legislation and maintain robust incident and business continuity plans, and will help guide strategic decisions and drive improvements in our emergency preparedness and resilience capabilities.

You will also have a Diploma in Health Emergency Planning (or will be willing to work towards one) and expertise in emergency planning and business continuity management. You should have good organisational and communication skills, and the ability to influence and motivate at all levels. You will also engage effectively and work collaboratively with a wide range of internal and external multi-agency stakeholders and partners.

You will ensure that EPRR risks are proactively managed and that learning from incidents is implemented and embedded across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include:

Ensuring the Trust's statutory obligations under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 are met

Representing the Trust at Multi agency meetings and events

Developing and implementing long term emergency preparedness plans

Participating in an on-call rota and recognising trends in on-call alerts

Co-ordinating and facilitating exercise and training programmes

Reporting and other administration tasks

Working for our organisation

Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

  • A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
  • Car lease scheme(only available for Band 5 and up)
  • Flexible working options
  • Annual travel card loan
  • Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for full details of duties, and the person specification for this role.

Person specification

Eduadtion and Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to degree / Post Graduate level or equivalent, plus further short courses, theoretical study and on the job training and experience or equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • Project management qualification (eg. Prince2) or equivalent
  • Diploma in Health Emergency Planning) or equivalent
  • Trained Loggist

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in a healthcare organisation
  • Demonstrable experience of planning complex areas of work
  • Experience of managing projects
  • Experience of working with a broad range of multi-agency partners and establishing effective working relationships across boundaries
  • Experience of supporting incident management teams in responding to actual emergencies
  • Experience of managing competing priorities and demands
  • Experience of developing and implementing administration systems and processes
  • Demonstrable experience of using own initiative to achieve required outcomes
  • Experience of delivering training to multi-disciplinary teams
Desirable criteria
  • Practical experience of integrated emergency management activities, including: risk assessment, emergency planning, training, practical exercises.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable attention to detail
  • Self motivated and ability to motivate others
  • Advance IT skills and knowledge of Microsoft applications
  • Well developed and demonstrable organisational skills
  • Knowledge of emergency planning including the health response to major incidents, CBRN events and pandemic flu
  • Knowledge of Business Continuity Management
  • Strong communication skills
  • Knowledge of Information Governance in a health organisation
  • Performs well under pressure and achieves tight deadlines in a complex/changing environment
  • Ability to work inter-professionally and across professional boundaries with all levels of staff
  • Innovative, pro-active and resourceful
Desirable criteria
  • Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)

Key Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Ability to meet the fundamental aspects of the role
  • Able to work flexibly within the needs of the team and organisation
  • Able to travel across London
  • Degree of flexibility in working hours

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Sunflower Hidden DisabilitiesNo smoking policyAge positiveCare quality commission - GoodNHS Pastoral CareDisability confident committedAccredited Living Wage EmployerStonewall 2023 Bronze

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your applications on time to avoid disappointment.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Laura Williams
Job title
Director of Resilience
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07799656434
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