Job summary
- Main area
- Secondary Care
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 7 months (Monday to Friday core hours with occasional requirement to work long hours or during the weekend if dealing with an incident)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 269-SFT10034
- Employer
- Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Salisbury Foundation NHS Trust
- Town
- Salisbury
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 On call supplement will be paid per shift if on call undertaken
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Interim Head of EPRR & Prevent
Band 8a
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Job overview
Main duties of the job
This role will lead the continued development and delivery of the Trust's EPRR portfolio, ensuring the organisation remains prepared to respond effectively to incidents, emergencies and operational pressures while maintaining safe, high-quality patient care.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the Trust's EPRR programme to ensure compliance with statutory duties as a Category 1 Responder and NHS England EPRR Core Standards.
- Developing, reviewing and assuring Trust-wide emergency preparedness, major incident and business continuity plans, policies and procedures.
- Managing the Trust's Business Continuity Management programme and supporting services to strengthen organisational resilience.
- Designing and delivering EPRR training, exercising and assurance programmes, including live and tabletop exercises.
- Maintaining incident response readiness, including Incident Coordination Centre (ICC) arrangements and on-call commander competency.
- Providing specialist advice and support to senior leaders during major incidents, critical incidents and disruptive events.
- Working collaboratively with internal and external partners across the health, emergency planning and resilience community.
- Acting as the Trust's Prevent Lead, working with Safeguarding colleagues and external partners to maintain compliance with Prevent requirements and support vulnerable individuals.
Working for our organisation
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is part of the Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Hospitals Group, alongside Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust. Together, we are committed to delivering outstanding, sustainable healthcare through collaboration, innovation and excellent patient care.
With a history spanning more than 250 years, SFT combines a proud heritage with a forward-looking approach to healthcare. We employ more than 4,000 staff, provide around 470 beds and deliver acute, specialist and regional services across Wiltshire and beyond.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to creating an inclusive, supportive workplace where colleagues feel valued, developed and empowered to reach their potential. Flexible working helps colleagues balance work and personal commitments while meeting the needs of patients.
We offer NHS benefits including the NHS Pension Scheme, generous annual leave, staff discounts and onsite facilities.
Salisbury offers an exceptional quality of life, combining a historic city with beautiful countryside, access to the south coast and excellent transport links. Find out more at Experience Salisbury.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Written and verbal
Essential criteria
- Highly developed knowledge of emergency preparedness, resilience, response, civil contingencies and business continuity legislation, standards and guidance
- Demonstrable experience of developing, implementing and maintaining emergency preparedness and business continuity programmes, plans and arrangements
- Demonstrable experience of planning, delivering and evaluating EPRR training, exercising and assurance activities
- Demonstrable experience of working collaboratively with senior stakeholders and multi-agency partners on complex or sensitive resilience and emergency planning matters
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to produce sensitive/confidential reports, briefings and Board-level papers and present complex information effectively
- Excellent organisational skills, including the ability to prioritise competing demands, manage workloads and deliver to challenging deadlines
- Demonstrable experience of providing leadership, direction and specialist advice to multidisciplinary teams and senior leaders within a complex organisation
- Demonstrable ability to build strong working relationships, raise awareness of the EPRR agenda and influence teams and stakeholders to adopt change and improve organisational resilience
Desirable criteria
- Member of appropriate Professional Body e.g., Emergency Planning Society, BCI
- Demonstrable experience of CBRNe incident response planning & training
- Demonstrable experience of managing on-call managers and coordinating on-call rotas, including cover arrangements and escalation processes
- Knowledge of Prevent duties and experience of working with counter-terrorism, safeguarding or related partnership arrangements
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Anja Richardson
- Job title
- Head of EPRR and Prevent Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01722 336262
- Additional information
01722 336262 Ext. 5699
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