Head of Emergency Preparedness | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	12 Rhagfyr 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£55,690 - £62,682 Per annum, Pro rata
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	11 Ionawr 2026
Lleoliad:	Manchester, M20 4BX
Cwmni:	The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7679889/413-101578-PERF-DA

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We are looking for an individual with leadership experience and in-depth knowledge emergency preparedness, resilience, and response within the public sector. This post will accountable to the Chief Operating officer.

Applicants will need to demonstrate that they meet the key requirements as outlined in the personal specification.

The main duty of this role is to provide leadership in the trust fulfilling the requirements of the emergency planning standards and the civil contingencies act (CCA) 2004, ensuring the adequacy and appropriateness of local emergency plans, preparedness, and business continuity planning arrangements. The Civil Contingencies Act and accompanying non-legislative measures contain highly complex and sensitive information that will require the post holder to interpret the act (including present and future regulations) in a local context and devise and co-ordinate strategies, policies, and procedures for the trust.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the trust complies with all relevant emergency preparedness, resilience, and response (EPRR) as set out in the NHS England EPRR framework.

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

On behalf of the Chief Operating Officer, the post holder will: -

1. Be responsible for ensuring that the Christie NHS Foundation Trust is compliant with the statutory obligations under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and its associated regulations.

2. Lead on planning and training and exercising work associated with
- Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR)
- Business continuity
- System resilience

3. Represent the Trust in a broad multi-agency environment and manage relevant multi-agency project and workstreams, liaising with TCFT clinical and corporate services, commissioners and other Health Care Providers and multi-agency partners ensuring that TCFT is fully involved in/and supportive of health economy resilience planning and response.

4. Ensure TCFT’s interests are fully represented and advanced.

5. Ensure strong communications are maintained between TCFT and its stakeholders.

6. Lead on the development and coordination of all aspects of major incident and emergency planning for the trust and its managed and contracted services. The post holder will also facilitate and support the trusts response to major incidents and emergencies as appropriate, acting as a specialist knowledge resource in all aspects of emergency planning offering detailed advice across the trust and external partner organisations.

7. Manage EPRR corporate processes to provide assurance to the Board that it complies with relevant legislation and guidance as identified by the NHS Core standards for EPRR.

8. Lead research and develop programs to contribute to the advancement of emergency planning and a health context and act as a source of expertise and professional point of contact on Emergency Planning and Business continuity for the whole organisation.

9. Develop and maintain appropriate systems, processes, and policies so that the Trust is fit for purpose relating to the emergency planning and Business continuity.

10. Work with key managers to develop, produce and update business continuity plans materials and documentation e.g., plans, emergency response procedures, call lists, action cards

11. Ensure that there are suitable arrangements in place for the trust to quickly establish a command-and-control room (major incident room) as needed, and this is embedded into local localities as required.

12. Work closely with clinical and corporate services to ensure plans, policies, action cards, training and supporting infrastructures and exercised to enable the trust to effectively respond to the following: -
- An internal or external major incident
- Flood
- Heat wave
- Extreme weather conditions
- Pandemic/ flu
- Lock down
- Site specific service, geographical hotspot or trust wide business continuity risks or incidents

13. Lead and coordinate the development, monitoring and updating of Business impact assessments (BIA) / Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) across the trust.

14. Develop and contribute to professional relationships within the Organisation, with commissioners and NHS funded organisations and multi-agency partners that facilitate the continual development of EPRR arrangements e.g., local resilience forums.

15. Ensure appropriate representation at local health resilience partnerships (LHRP), Local resilience and their associated sub-groups and workstreams.

16. Ensure that the trust major incident plan contains effective mechanisms to facilitate joint working within the relevant local NHS economies and provide an effective NHS response to any Major incident or business continuity risk affecting the trust.

17. Ensure that the plans are compatible with those of the emergency services, local council and other partner agencies.

18. Identify national, regional and local policy changes and developments which impact the trust, both direct and indirect, and translate these into operational practice as required.

19. Work closely with estates, IT and Human Resources, switchboard, and communications team to ensure that all communications systems and equipment needed for emergency response is checked regularly, tested and fit for purpose and responsibilities for emergency planning and business continuity is understood by target audiences.

20. Plan and implement desktop scenarios to test local emergency plans at least annually and ensure the lessons learned from the desk top scenario are incorporated into the relevant planning arrangements.

21. Liaise with and support Directors and Divisional Leadership Teams and other senior managers in the trust to ensure they are aware of their responsibilities in coordination and delivery of NHS services in the event of a major / critical incident.

22. Assist with crisis management in the event of a business interruption.

23. Develop and implement a review and governance framework for the revision and updating of the trust emergency plans; identifying and enlisting staff from across all divisions; with clear lines of accountability.

24. Lead responsibility for ensuring that all communications during an exercise are retained and analysed, for preparing reports are appropriate, for arranging debriefs and review sessions as appropriate and for submission to legal entities if required.

TRAINING AND EDUCATION CO-ORDINATION

25. Develop, manage, and coordinate delivery of a rolling three- year test and exercise schedule (including regular communication tests and control center establishment tests) to develop major incident and emergency response to management skills and awareness across the organisation, ensure staff at all levels and in all sites and services, take all available opportunities to test their response capacity and to identify learning and improvements needed in response plans.

26. Lead responsibility for developing and coordinating the training of key trust staff and those of our contracted services with regard to major incidents and emergency planning and response.


27. Undertake the identification of training needs and delivery of appropriate training programs to ensure that Christie staff understand and are competent to perform their major incident and emergency planning responsibilities.

28. Ensure that the appropriate emergency planning training is made available to relevant staff of the trust and co-ordinate the involvement of these staff in their emergency planning and responses roles.

29. Be an educational resource in relation to emergency planning and business continuity for induction and update the training programs to assist in ensuring these reflect the needs of the organisation.

GENERAL PROFESSIONAL DUTIES

30. Provide expert advice, information and support to senior managers, clinicians and committees on matters relating to the remit and ensure he trust is kept informed of related national and regional strategic issues.

31. Undertake personal development training in order to enhance skills/expertise and keep up to date with the national guidance and best practice.

32. Contribute to the design, implementation and monitoring of internal indicators and metrics which enable the trust to understand and improve its performance in relation to quality, risk, business continuity, safety, and compliance.

33. Due to the nature of resilience planning and response, the post holder may, on occasions, be required to work outside of normal office hours and will be required to travel on a regular basis.


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