Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response Manager
| Posting date: | 16 September 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,755 - £60,504 pa pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 October 2024 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS1 3NU |
| Company: | University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6631808/387-TS-6883-CB |
Summary
A Vacancy at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience & Response (EPRR) Team, working across University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust's ten hospital sites.
We are seeking to appoint a high calibre and credible individual. You must be dynamic, innovative and motivated , passionate about EPRR, putting the patient experience first, and someone who shares our trust values. Experience in a similar role in a complex environment is essential.
The post holder will be capable of working under pressure, prioritising to deadlines and multi-tasking. Good motivation, persuasion and planning skills are also essential. Your skills will have been ideally developed in an NHS environment and you will bring energy and a resilient leadership style. The post requires a high standard of communication, analysis, clear thinking and organisational skills and offers excellent opportunities for career development.
Whilst the role can have an element of flexible working roles,regular on-site attendance will be expected across all hospital sites
The Emergency Preparedness, Resilience & Response (EPRR) Manager is a high-profile role with trust wide responsibility and will act as part of the EPRR Team, working to achieve its objectives to ensure the trust remains resilient to incidents and disruptive events.
The team function is to enable the organisation as a Category 1 responder, to meet the full statutory duties under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, ensuring alignment of the Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) to ISO22301 and NHS England Core standards for EPRR, and to evolving national guidance, supporting the site operations team to manage incidents effectively.
The EPRR Manager ensures that EPRR risks are proactively managed and that learning from incidents is implemented. The role provides expert advice to services to ensure appropriate plans are in place, and delivers training and exercising from floor to board to ensure staff are knowledgeable of and confident in their roles so as to minimise impact on performance from both routine and more serious disruptions.
The EPRR Manager acts as a specialist lead and advisor to the trust Senior Leadership Team and the professional link for regulators, external partners and interested parties, leading on EPRR assurance and operational planning.
If this sounds like the role for you, then please do get in touch.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
This advert closes on Wednesday 2 Oct 2024
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience & Response (EPRR) Team, working across University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust's ten hospital sites.
We are seeking to appoint a high calibre and credible individual. You must be dynamic, innovative and motivated , passionate about EPRR, putting the patient experience first, and someone who shares our trust values. Experience in a similar role in a complex environment is essential.
The post holder will be capable of working under pressure, prioritising to deadlines and multi-tasking. Good motivation, persuasion and planning skills are also essential. Your skills will have been ideally developed in an NHS environment and you will bring energy and a resilient leadership style. The post requires a high standard of communication, analysis, clear thinking and organisational skills and offers excellent opportunities for career development.
Whilst the role can have an element of flexible working roles,regular on-site attendance will be expected across all hospital sites
The Emergency Preparedness, Resilience & Response (EPRR) Manager is a high-profile role with trust wide responsibility and will act as part of the EPRR Team, working to achieve its objectives to ensure the trust remains resilient to incidents and disruptive events.
The team function is to enable the organisation as a Category 1 responder, to meet the full statutory duties under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, ensuring alignment of the Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) to ISO22301 and NHS England Core standards for EPRR, and to evolving national guidance, supporting the site operations team to manage incidents effectively.
The EPRR Manager ensures that EPRR risks are proactively managed and that learning from incidents is implemented. The role provides expert advice to services to ensure appropriate plans are in place, and delivers training and exercising from floor to board to ensure staff are knowledgeable of and confident in their roles so as to minimise impact on performance from both routine and more serious disruptions.
The EPRR Manager acts as a specialist lead and advisor to the trust Senior Leadership Team and the professional link for regulators, external partners and interested parties, leading on EPRR assurance and operational planning.
If this sounds like the role for you, then please do get in touch.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
This advert closes on Wednesday 2 Oct 2024
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