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Resilience & Technical Advisor

Job details
Posting date: 05 August 2024
Salary: £32,136 to £34,546 per year
Additional salary information: National: £32,136 - £34,546
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 19 August 2024
Location: Stafford
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 362274/2

Summary

APHA is a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.  

Do you want a role which supports safeguarding standards of animal welfare?   

Are you someone who can lead and manage successfully in a challenging and dynamic environment?

Do you want to apply your communication and problem-solving skills in a role that provides variety and flexibility?    

If so, why not join us and make a difference.   

We have an exciting opportunity to join our England Field Delivery Team as a Resilience & Technical Advisor (R&TA). This is a challenging role and a great opportunity to use your operational delivery and technical skills to ensure APHA succeeds in safeguarding animal health.

You will provide functional leadership for approximately 13 Animal Health Officers and coordinate local resilience, training & equipment requirements through Technical Team Leaders (TTLs). You will be supporting technicians completing this work and engaging in quality assurance and training.

This is a varied role, and you will have the flexibility to turn your hand to different tasks as the situation demands. The key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Functional leadership, including determining front-line technical actions and quality assurance of technical matters relating to Business as Usual (BAU) functions of approximately 13 Animal Health Officers (AHO).
  • Resilience leadership & coordination for a given geographic area for all logistical field operations. These areas include operational workload in the area, numbers of staff in the area, APHA & non-APHA estate options for Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) sites in the area.
  • Identify technical BAU and resilience training requirements for AHOs (through QA work) to the TTL for action and raising to core teams any trends in quality standards and training requirements.
  • Liaise with local TTLs to set requirements for managing equipment enabling the Local Equipment Managers (LEMs) to manage equipment needs to cover immediate field team requirements in accordance with national stock requirements and operational manual instructions and stock.
  • Evidence the assurance provided by local managers that Field Services Teams are suitably ready and prepared for dealing with an outbreak of an exotic notifiable disease.
  • Share best practice with R&TA network to ensure a consistent approach.

Resilience & Business Continuity

  • Ensuring local resilience plans, procedures and provisions meet APHAs national standards and requirements undertaking Emergency Readiness Management Assurance Scheme (ERMAS) assessments and contributing to lessons identified.
  • Under direction from Resilience & Business Continuity (R&BC), set the estates requirements with local managers to ensure the suitability of estate for (FOB) purposes and ensure other business continuity requirements are planned for.
  • Under direction from R&BC, design and deliver on farm training and exercise events to meet national objectives, engaging with key contractors and responders.

Emergency & Outbreak Response

  • Work with local managers to establish outbreak response plans and provide assurance that individuals and teams have outbreak roles identified.
  • Provide advice and guidance to Delivery/Technical Team Leaders to enable the identification of appropriate sites for FOBs and work with local managers to create FOB set up plans.
  • Complete Lessons identified reports post exercise/outbreaks and coordinate and deliver any local actions.
  • Independent Quality Assurance of technical incident response.
  • Adopt the role of Recovery Manager for any outbreaks within your geographic area.

Functional Leadership

  • Functional leadership of approximately 13 AHOs including determining action on escalated front-line technical issues and seeking resolution to issues outside of their expertise, for example to Operational Delivery Networks, Safety, Health and Wellbeing (SHaW).

Quality assurance of AHOs technical delivery

  • As part of QA of front-line field delivery, to monitor, support and address Health & Safety, escalating any issues to the TTL.
  • Display leadership by establishing and championing high health & safety standards acting as a role model (including maintaining own essential training).
  • Raise AHOs (technical, including H&S) development requirements to line managers for performance reviews.
  • As part of matrix management, contribute relevant constructive feedback to AHOs and their line managers, specifically to recognise high performance or highlight development or training requirements.

You will have matrix line management responsibility for England Field Delivery team members. Regular travel covering all of England, as well as presence at an APHA location is expected.  

You may be required to travel and work for periods of detached duty in the event of a notifiable disease outbreak.