Head of Emergency Preparedness Resilience & Response

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	11 Rhagfyr 2025
Cyflog:	£64,455.00 i £74,896.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£64455.00 - £74896.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	28 Rhagfyr 2025
Lleoliad:	Worthing, BN11 1FG
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	C9354-25-1396

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The post holder will: Establish effective communication networks and engage with key internal and external stakeholders including Directors, Service Leads, Business Managers, the Estates and Security team and Corporate Senior team Be required to provide and receive highly complex information which is multi-stranded and requires an ability to engage and motivate relevant stakeholders Develops and maintains strong, productive professional relationships with other EPRR Leads from a range of agencies To represent SPFT at local and regional health sector forums, ensuring that SPFT's interests are represented and system discussions are fed back into the Trust for consideration Advise the Trust on emergency planning and business continuity and develop, deliver, and monitor systems to ensure the Trust can provide an effective emergency response for major incidents, emergencies, disruptive events, and surges in demand To work closely with Operational and Corporate teams to ensure that any interruption to Trust business or incidents (loss of utilities or IT/digital technology, damage to sites, planned maintenance, infectious outbreaks, Industrial action, major road closures etc.) has an appropriate contingency and is operationally managed effectively To lead the Trusts EPRR agenda and ensure the Trust discharges its responsibility in relation to the Civil Contingencies Act 2024 To ensure that robust processes are in place to maintain and develop the Trust's EPRR as defined by NHS England EPRR Framework and Standards 2022 Be responsible for leading emergency and resilience planning across the Trust, including Major Incident, Influenza Pandemic, Heatwave, Cold Weather, and service business continuity plans Be responsible for compiling the Trust annual business plan in relation to EPRR Develop the strategy for each areaof activity to secure the delivery of EPRR compliance, this will include but is not limited to development, approval, review of all EPRR related plans and policies To work autonomously, making highly complex decisions daily to meet and achieve defined results. To ensureSPFT has robust EPRR plans and policies which are tested, effective, up to date and are adequate to respond to all reasonably foreseeable internal and external incidents, national standards, and specialist guidance Be responsible for the line management of the EPRR team ensuring the Team meet all departmental and Trust objectives in relation to EPRR Will develop long-term plans that are strategic in nature and involve a high degree of uncertainty due to the subject matter Accountable for staff and budgetary management relating to EPRR function, this also includes checking and maintaining of all EPRR related equipment Toensure that SPFT has an appropriate and comprehensive training programme in place in relation to EPRR that meets the required standards. Toensure SPFT is compliant with NHSE Principles of Health Command training for strategic and tactical commanders Lead the debriefing process post incident, maintaining a continuous cycle of improvement Develop and contribute to professional relationships within the Trust, other commissioners, NHS funded organisations and multi-agency partners that facilitate the continual development of local and national EPRR arrangements Responsible for the design and delivery of the Trusts EPRR functions, maintaining and improving standards of such preparedness across the organisation and providing leadership on specialist emergency preparedness and resilience issues Toensure the Trust is represented at the local resilience forum and sub-groups, and as required to specific incident or event responses at local, regional, and national level Be accountable for the design and delivery of highly complex and detailed EPRR training and exercise programs for all staff across the Trust including within CDSs and at headquarters and facilitate their running whilst ensuring that the training material is adapted to meet the requirements of its audience, this will be done in conjunction with multi-agency partners Work closely with the executive directors and communications teams to ensure appropriate communication and media response by the Trust to significant events and emergencies. This includes highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information Have in-depth knowledge of and ensure the implementation of Integrated Emergency Management within the Trust Lead on and work with the Accountable Emergency Officer to ensure that the work stream of emergency preparedness, resilience and response programmes are planned and managed effectively and to take the lead in ensuring their successful delivery Tolead on the annual EPRR Core Standards self-assessment process Toensure that information regarding emergency preparedness, resilience and response is properly managed and best practice is continuously developed and shared across the Trust Tosupport the implementation of business continuity, EPRR processes within strategic Business units The post holder will be the subject matter expert for the Trust, providing advice, guidance, and support in response to specialised incidents Tolead and facilitate Trust wide training on developing business continuity plans in line with ISO 22301:12 and including embedding of the processes in day-to-day practice Todevise and develop tests/exercises to test plans across the Trust Todevelop and/or review of Polices within the EPRR portfolio and Business Continuity for the Trust. Ensuring the Trust fulfils its legal obligations and responsibilities under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004), NHS England Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) Framework 2015, The NHS England Core Standards for Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response, The Health and Social Care Act 2012 and other government planning requirements To plan, coordinate and facilitate regular exercises in accordance with NHS guidance to test and review the Trusts emergency plans