Emergency Preparedness Policy Adviser
| Posting date: | 03 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £37,694 to £37,694 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 February 2025 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 389071/1 |
Summary
Emergencies can happen at any time. It is the role of the Operational Response Centre in DHSC to ensure the health and social care sector is ready to respond, and to provide support to the sector when it is needed. There are a number of risks that could pose a serious threat to the delivery of critical health and care services to the public. As a Emergency Preparedness Policy Adviser, it will be your job to build a picture of those risks, understand the capability of the health and social care sector to respond, develop Government policy and find ways to build its resilience.
The Operational Response Centre covers all aspects of the crisis management cycle: identifying risks, assessing preparedness, agreeing Government policy, building mitigations, responding to incidents, recovering, and learning lessons. In joining our team, you will have the opportunity to get involved in all parts of the cycle, building a strong portfolio of skills and experience in this exciting and unique area of the Government. We are looking for someone keen, willing to get involved and who thrives on variety. We want someone who can work on longer-term projects and also be able to respond quickly to incidents when they occur.
The Operational Response Centre is a friendly and proactive team who work closely with our partners in our arm’s-length bodies (such as NHS England and the UK Health Security Agency) and across government (including with the Cabinet Office and Home Office) to deliver a professional emergency response, risk and resilience function.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer which values and celebrates diversity. We encourage applications from candidates of all educational, professional and social backgrounds and of all genders, ethnicities and sexual orientations as well as disabled backgrounds, as it is important that our workforce and policies reflect the society, we live in.
We are recruiting for two Emergency Preparedness Policy Adviser posts. The role of an Emergency Preparedness Policy Adviser in the Operational Response Centre will give the postholders the opportunity to utilise and enhance their skills in policy making, problem solving, operational delivery and risk management. They will focus on building the health and social care sector’s capability to respond to a variety of risks.
Across the two roles, core functions will include:
- Mapping threats to the health sector, building a detailed understanding of impacts and identifying mitigations;
- Leading on parts of the national pandemic preparedness exercise;
- Contributing to the development of Government policy;
- Developing contingency plans, in conjunction with other policy teams and partners across government, to inform an incident response;
- Assisting the sector in developing their response capability and identify areas to build future resilience.
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