Emergency Planning Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 23 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £40,755 i £48,531 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 16 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Sutton, London |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 2 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | London Borough of Sutton |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 3642 |
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About the Role and our Ideal Candidate
The role will support the Climate Action and Emergency Planning team in ensuring a safe and resilient borough. The post holder will work with colleagues across the Council to help deliver a robust programme of emergency planning, training and exercising. The role will also form a critical part of Sutton’s response to any incidents and provide specialist advice to help shape the response.
Key activities include:
Help ensure the Council are meeting the Resilience Standards for London.
Commission and deliver emergency planning training to staff
Supporting the Council’s response to any incidents
Supporting the Council’s Safety Advisory Group of events
About You
If you enjoy a diverse role that gives you exposure to the broad range of Council services and thrive in working in a challenging yet highly rewarding environment, then we want to hear from you.
You will have experience of working in emergency planning or business continuity, able to adapt to changes of pace and maintain a calm and professional demeanour while making decisions under pressure during any incidents. Within the role you will build relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders and be able to manage competing deadlines.
In order to successfully deliver the responsibilities of the role, you will need to demonstrate:
a good understanding of relevant contingency planning and integrated emergency planning legislation, regulations and guidance for the local authority context (essential);
the relevant experience working in an Emergency Planning and/or Business Continuity position(s), and possess the knowledge of how to effectively prepare for, respond to, and recover from, internal and external emergencies (essential);
a commitment to personal development in order to meet the changing demands of the position (essential);
effective problem solving skills and be confident in making decisions to resolve situations that arise, including under pressure (essential);
experience of challenging and critically evaluating information and data, considering the bigger picture and wider implications to the service and Council (essential);
the ability to confidently communicate effectively with various audiences, including members of the Council’s Corporate Management Team, Councillors, multi-agency partners, internal departments, residents, etc (essential);
well-developed training and instructional skills in order to formulate training objectives and lesson plans leading to the design and running of training sessions and events (essential);
the ability to work well under pressure, prioritise work and possess organisational skills to remain effective in the role (essential);
good interpersonal skills in order to build sound working relationships with key stakeholders and partners (essential).
The postholder will be required to form part of the emergency planning out of hours on-call rota, which will necessitate some out of hours working including evenings and weekends due to the emergency planning on-call rota. There is additional remuneration associated with this. In-person attendance in the borough will also be expected during civil contingencies.
About Us
Sutton has a long-standing commitment to reducing our impact on the environment. The council’s corporate plan, Ambitious for Sutton 2022-2027 commits to tackle climate change in becoming a net zero carbon borough. To enable delivery of these ambitions, the council uses its Environment Strategy and Climate Emergency Response Plan. As part of the Council’s forward thinking approach to adapting to climate change, the Council acknowledges the key role emergency planning has to play in response to our climate emergency by ensuring the borough is prepared and resilient for a broad range of incidents as the changing climate leads to more severe weather incidents.
The role will support the Climate Action and Emergency Planning team in ensuring a safe and resilient borough. The post holder will work with colleagues across the Council to help deliver a robust programme of emergency planning, training and exercising. The role will also form a critical part of Sutton’s response to any incidents and provide specialist advice to help shape the response.
Key activities include:
Help ensure the Council are meeting the Resilience Standards for London.
Commission and deliver emergency planning training to staff
Supporting the Council’s response to any incidents
Supporting the Council’s Safety Advisory Group of events
About You
If you enjoy a diverse role that gives you exposure to the broad range of Council services and thrive in working in a challenging yet highly rewarding environment, then we want to hear from you.
You will have experience of working in emergency planning or business continuity, able to adapt to changes of pace and maintain a calm and professional demeanour while making decisions under pressure during any incidents. Within the role you will build relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders and be able to manage competing deadlines.
In order to successfully deliver the responsibilities of the role, you will need to demonstrate:
a good understanding of relevant contingency planning and integrated emergency planning legislation, regulations and guidance for the local authority context (essential);
the relevant experience working in an Emergency Planning and/or Business Continuity position(s), and possess the knowledge of how to effectively prepare for, respond to, and recover from, internal and external emergencies (essential);
a commitment to personal development in order to meet the changing demands of the position (essential);
effective problem solving skills and be confident in making decisions to resolve situations that arise, including under pressure (essential);
experience of challenging and critically evaluating information and data, considering the bigger picture and wider implications to the service and Council (essential);
the ability to confidently communicate effectively with various audiences, including members of the Council’s Corporate Management Team, Councillors, multi-agency partners, internal departments, residents, etc (essential);
well-developed training and instructional skills in order to formulate training objectives and lesson plans leading to the design and running of training sessions and events (essential);
the ability to work well under pressure, prioritise work and possess organisational skills to remain effective in the role (essential);
good interpersonal skills in order to build sound working relationships with key stakeholders and partners (essential).
The postholder will be required to form part of the emergency planning out of hours on-call rota, which will necessitate some out of hours working including evenings and weekends due to the emergency planning on-call rota. There is additional remuneration associated with this. In-person attendance in the borough will also be expected during civil contingencies.
About Us
Sutton has a long-standing commitment to reducing our impact on the environment. The council’s corporate plan, Ambitious for Sutton 2022-2027 commits to tackle climate change in becoming a net zero carbon borough. To enable delivery of these ambitions, the council uses its Environment Strategy and Climate Emergency Response Plan. As part of the Council’s forward thinking approach to adapting to climate change, the Council acknowledges the key role emergency planning has to play in response to our climate emergency by ensuring the borough is prepared and resilient for a broad range of incidents as the changing climate leads to more severe weather incidents.