Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response Officer
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest trusts in the country, serving a population of 1.2 million people comprising acute hospital sites at Broomfield in Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend.
We are a well-led, high-performing and innovative organisation determined to provide the best health care services for our local population and working in the best interests of the people we serve.
Job overview
Working under the direction of the Head of EPRR, the post holder will be responsible for the development and delivery of emergency preparedness, resilience, and response planning within MSEFT.
The post holder will coordinate emergency plans and business continuity plans, working closely with the Heads of Service across clinical and corporate departments. This will include ensuring that effective and up to date plans are in place to comply with national, regional, and local guidance, along with ensuring the organisation meets its legal requirements as a Category 1 Responder, as described in the Civil Contingencies Act (2004).
The post holder will be a key point of contact for emergency preparedness matters within the organisation, providing advice, guidance, training, and support to the organisation and participating in system emergency planning meetings. The post holder will develop and coordinate processes and reports for resilience testing and exercising.
The post holder will be responsible for maintaining up-to-date plans and guidelines, coordinate any required reporting/SitReps and distributing key information across the organisation.
The postholder will be responsible for ensuring full EPRR compliance as directed under the NHSE Framework 2022. Ensuring all core standards are satisfactorily complied with.
The postholder will occasionally be required to work out of hours and some weekend working may be necessary.
Main duties of the job
Delivering all aspects of EPRR to ensure the Trust meets the NHSE EPRR core standards.
Develop, implement and maintain EPRR plans across the Trust.
Development, redesign and maintain the Incident Coordination Centres across the Trust.
Deliver a range of EPRR training and exercising across the Trust.
Provide support and specialist guidance to Trust response teams in the event of a major incident or business continuity incident at an operational and tactical level.
Assist in the production of service-level Business Impact Analysis and use the information gathered via this process to assist service leads to produce robust and comprehensive service-level Business Continuity plans.
Be responsible for completing regular audits and testing of incident coordination centre and CBRNe equipment.
Review and analyse complex clinical and non-clinical service responses to major, critical and business continuity incidents. Identify critical activities and ensure service level inter-decencies do not conflict with one another; adjust plans as required following review.
Responsible for Emergency Planning for the Trust including policy and plan development, implementation and review.
Represent the Trust at meetings with other authorities/organisations both health and non-health, in relation to emergency preparedness and resilience, fostering and developing good working relationships.
Working for our organisation
With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities.
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
Patients will experience improved care as well as fewer delays and cancellations. We are able to provide more once-in-a-lifetime specialist care region-wide. With our new trust size will come more opportunities for development, research, networking and innovation.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached job description.
We look forward to your application!
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience in Health Emergency Planning
- Experience in Emergency Planning
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Diploma in Health Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response Qualification
- BCI Qualification
Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.
Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application