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Senior Resilience Lead
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 02 Mai 2024 |
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| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 16 Mai 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | South West England, UK |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 3 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 343423 |
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Our team covers areas such as contingency/continuity planning, training, instructions, and the administration of assurance schemes. The team strategically supports all the groups in the APHA Service Delivery Directorate to respond to the various incidents that impact the business and the day to day work of APHA.
As a team we provide strategic oversight for any Outbreak Emergency Response and play a role in incident management response. As a member of the team, you will support delivering all the activities required to achieve our aim. You will be expected to work closely with other team members to ensure relevant support is provided to the business. On some occasions, this may also require working unsocial hours (utilising overtime provisions).
Each Senior Resilience Manager will take responsibility for several work streams from the list below: Exercises, Lessons Identified, Continuity, Supplier liaison, Capability, Recovery Plans, Procedures and Engagement, Instructions, and IT. In the event of an outbreak, it is expected the SEO will lead and manage a team within the Outbreak Coordination Group (OCG).
The role consists of some of the elements below depending on which area you are working in and can change depending on priorities:
Providing guidance and training to ensure that all teams involved in emergency response have the skills and competence to deliver the work required in an outbreak/incident;
To review and update the emergency response plans with relevant leads;
Ensure that APHA teams are trained in IT tools, processes, procedures and that competence is maintained through exercises;
To be able to give advice and guidance to teams within APHA on best practice in relation to resilience planning, training, business continuity processes;
Stakeholder and operational partner engagement, building relationships and networks that support business as usual and outbreak/incident response functions;
To provide support and a service to GB policy teams – ensuring individual policy needs are met and that they are being delivered consistently by APHA teams.
Contribute to the development of readiness and capability to deal with outbreaks of exotic notifiable diseases of animals, plants and bees, and with other incidents and emergencies affecting the Agency, this includes designing measures to assess readiness as well as contributing to and developing response plans and exercises;
Manage activities that may have statutory, Ministerial or other operational targets associated with them, which may be delivered through a project management approach and the production of regular progress updates;
Participate in an on-call out of hour’s rota. During an emergency, you may also be required to undertake tasks within the incident response teams that may require working additional hours at other GB locations;
Maintain expertise and knowledge of contingency plans, disease control strategies and any other operational instructions/processes to facilitate the transition from Business as Usual into an effective national disease response structure;
Provide input and contribution to correspondence, reports and briefing material on various aspects of disease control preparedness;
In the event of a disease outbreak undertake a designated Outbreak Coordination Group (OCG) role as part of the National Disease Control Centre (NDCC) to ensure an effective outbreak response;
Contribute to and coordinate Lessons Identified reviews and evaluations following exercises, disease outbreaks or other incidents, including production of evaluation reports;
Undertake an Incident Management coordination role for incidents and emergencies that the Agency is required to respond to or report on, including production of situational reports and management information as required by senior management teams, policy customers or Cabinet Office;
Manage and support business continuity for APHA Directorates, ensuring plans are in place, reviewed, tested and lessons are incorporated;
Manage a team of staff supporting them to deliver individual portfolios of work. This includes day to day management duties, one to ones, Performance Management Reports (PMRs) etc.
As a team we provide strategic oversight for any Outbreak Emergency Response and play a role in incident management response. As a member of the team, you will support delivering all the activities required to achieve our aim. You will be expected to work closely with other team members to ensure relevant support is provided to the business. On some occasions, this may also require working unsocial hours (utilising overtime provisions).
Each Senior Resilience Manager will take responsibility for several work streams from the list below: Exercises, Lessons Identified, Continuity, Supplier liaison, Capability, Recovery Plans, Procedures and Engagement, Instructions, and IT. In the event of an outbreak, it is expected the SEO will lead and manage a team within the Outbreak Coordination Group (OCG).
The role consists of some of the elements below depending on which area you are working in and can change depending on priorities:
Providing guidance and training to ensure that all teams involved in emergency response have the skills and competence to deliver the work required in an outbreak/incident;
To review and update the emergency response plans with relevant leads;
Ensure that APHA teams are trained in IT tools, processes, procedures and that competence is maintained through exercises;
To be able to give advice and guidance to teams within APHA on best practice in relation to resilience planning, training, business continuity processes;
Stakeholder and operational partner engagement, building relationships and networks that support business as usual and outbreak/incident response functions;
To provide support and a service to GB policy teams – ensuring individual policy needs are met and that they are being delivered consistently by APHA teams.
Contribute to the development of readiness and capability to deal with outbreaks of exotic notifiable diseases of animals, plants and bees, and with other incidents and emergencies affecting the Agency, this includes designing measures to assess readiness as well as contributing to and developing response plans and exercises;
Manage activities that may have statutory, Ministerial or other operational targets associated with them, which may be delivered through a project management approach and the production of regular progress updates;
Participate in an on-call out of hour’s rota. During an emergency, you may also be required to undertake tasks within the incident response teams that may require working additional hours at other GB locations;
Maintain expertise and knowledge of contingency plans, disease control strategies and any other operational instructions/processes to facilitate the transition from Business as Usual into an effective national disease response structure;
Provide input and contribution to correspondence, reports and briefing material on various aspects of disease control preparedness;
In the event of a disease outbreak undertake a designated Outbreak Coordination Group (OCG) role as part of the National Disease Control Centre (NDCC) to ensure an effective outbreak response;
Contribute to and coordinate Lessons Identified reviews and evaluations following exercises, disease outbreaks or other incidents, including production of evaluation reports;
Undertake an Incident Management coordination role for incidents and emergencies that the Agency is required to respond to or report on, including production of situational reports and management information as required by senior management teams, policy customers or Cabinet Office;
Manage and support business continuity for APHA Directorates, ensuring plans are in place, reviewed, tested and lessons are incorporated;
Manage a team of staff supporting them to deliver individual portfolios of work. This includes day to day management duties, one to ones, Performance Management Reports (PMRs) etc.