Main area Emergency Preparedness, Resilience & Response (EPRR) Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Office/Remote base working) Job ref 942-ICB-6720486
Employer NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site Wellington House Town Wellington Salary £62,215 - £72,293 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 29/10/2024 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
The post holder is the senior full-time member of the STW EPRR Team for delivery of EPRR and Business Continuity at a strategic level across the system. They will lead internal and system level planning and response arrangements on behalf of the ICB as well as leading the ICB EPRR Training and Exercising Programme.
They will be accountable to the ICB Head of Clinical Operations & EPRR, and responsible for ensuring that the ICB complies with all relevant national standards in the NHS England EPRR Framework, and locally defined requirements.
The post holder will ensure the ICB are fulfilling the requirements under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004) as a Category 1 responder, which are organisations recognised as being the core of emergency response and are subject to the full set of civil protection duties. These include risk assessment of emergencies, to have in place emergency plans and business continuity management arrangements and a requirement to share information and cooperate with other agencies.
They will represent the ICB in a professional manner at the Local Health Resilience Partnership and lead the system participation in work streams, training and exercises. As the Senior EPRR Lead, the post holder will support the Accountable Emergency Officer, ensuring effective system wide engagement with a range of key stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
· As a senior member of the EPRR Team, the post holder will ensure the ICB is working towards full compliance as a Category 1 Responder under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
· Support the Head of Clinical Operations & EPRR with the annual assurance process across STW with check and challenge, evidence gathering and facilitation of Peer Reviews.
· Represent the ICB at Local Health Resilience Partnership and Local Resilience Forums, leading relevant multi-agency projects and workstreams at a strategic level.
· Contribute as a core member of the Local Health Resilience Partnership.
· Chair Shropshire Telford & Wrekin Local Health Resilience Partnership Practitioner sub-groups (i.e. risk, training and exercising).
· Lead system level planning and response arrangements to specific risks (i.e. energy resilience, evacuation and shelter, cyber).
· Support Managers across the ICB to embed EPRR arrangements at an operational level, as a Subject Matter Expert.
· Responsible for contingency plans being accurate, tested and validated.
· Lead the on-call mechanism on behalf of the ICB, ensuring Tactical and Strategic cover 24/7, 365 days a year.
· Represent the ICB at multi-agency exercises as a Subject Matter Expert.
· Lead the Training and Exercising Programme for the ICB, reporting quarterly assurance to the Board.
· Undertake training needs analysis annually.
Working for our organisation
NHS STW was established on 1 July 2022 as part of the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System (ICS) and is responsible for the strategic planning, commissioning, and monitoring of health and care services from a range of providers, to support our local population. These include GP and primary care services, hospital care, community healthcare and mental health services. We also have a duty to monitor these services to ensure they provide a high level of care and are value for money. We are clinically led and work closely with the 51 GP practices across the county.
In return, we provide a supportive environment in which to learn and develop, with the opportunity to further your skills and career within an exciting and evolving environment. Joining our inclusive and innovative team comes with a range of benefits including flexible & agile working arrangements, pension scheme and generous annual leave allowance. With our training schemes and support networks, you will be empowered to play a leading role in the future of healthcare, whatever your specialism or interest.
NHS STW currently have an agile working policy, with a combination of working from home and office-based work. The role will require a minimum of 40% of the working week to be spent in the office at Wellington Civic Offices.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Working Relationships
The post holder will need to build and maintain constructive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to:
* Internal ICB staff including managers, colleagues, and senior management as appropriate.
· National and regional colleagues at NHS England
· ICS partners, including portfolio leads, Local Authorities and Provider and Place Collaboratives
* Non-NHS organisations
· Members of the public and service users as appropriate
· Matrix work across all other teams to address interdependencies and ensure alignment of mutual objectives.
· External consultancy, as required.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
· As a senior member of the EPRR Team, the post holder will ensure the ICB is working towards full compliance as a Category 1 Responder under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
· Support the Head of Clinical Operations & EPRR with the annual assurance process across STW with check and challenge, evidence gathering and facilitation of Peer Reviews.
· Represent the ICB at Local Health Resilience Partnership and Local Resilience Forums, leading relevant multi-agency projects and workstreams at a strategic level.
· Contribute as a core member of the Local Health Resilience Partnership.
· Chair Shropshire Telford & Wrekin Local Health Resilience Partnership Practitioner sub-groups (i.e. risk, training and exercising).
· Lead system level planning and response arrangements to specific risks (i.e. energy resilience, evacuation and shelter, cyber).
· Support Managers across the ICB to embed EPRR arrangements at an operational level, as a Subject Matter Expert.
· Responsible for contingency plans being accurate, tested and validated.
· Lead the on-call mechanism on behalf of the ICB, ensuring Tactical and Strategic cover 24/7, 365 days a year.
· Represent the ICB at multi-agency exercises as a Subject Matter Expert.
· Lead the Training and Exercising Programme for the ICB, reporting quarterly assurance to the Board.
· Undertake training needs analysis annually.
· Develop and deliver exercises, both internally and externally, representing the ICB in a professional manner.
· Lead the Continuous Professional Development Portfolio workstream on behalf of the ICB.
· Responsible for the business continuity management system across the ICB.
· Lead internal Business Continuity Audits on behalf of the ICB, reporting findings to the Board.
· Facilitate structured debriefs for incidents and exercises across STW, and produce debrief reports which capture lessons identified, notable practice and recommendations.
· Responsible for ensuring all lessons identified from exercises, training and incidents are centrally recorded and reported on monthly.
· Analyse, evaluate and summarise highly complex data to a multi-
d disciplinary audience.
Provide incident response support as a Tactical Advisor within the Incident Coordination Centre.
· Review national, regional, and local risk register to highlight any risk that could affect the ICB or system.
· Proactively identify and manage key emerging or increasing risks for the ICB and system wide.
· Manage the EPRR Risk Register and provide quarterly assurance to the Board.
· Provide leadership and line management to the EPRR Duty Managers and EPRR Administrator.
· Deputise for the Head of Clinical Operations and EPRR as required in their absence.
· Undertake personal development training to enhance skills/expertise and keep up to date with national guidance and best practice.
· Research and develop programmes 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
· 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, Local Health Resilience Partnerships and sub-groups.
Operational Responsibility
· The post is responsible for providing professional expertise to the outcome of the business processes for the Department or Directorate.
· The post holder will define current processes, facilitate discussions and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery.
Financial and Physical Resources Responsibility
Human Resources Responsibility
Information Management Responsibility
· Responsible for the operation of one or more information systems for department/service, major job responsible
Planning and Organisation Responsibility
* Formulate long term strategic plans, involving uncertainly, which may impact on the whole of the organisation.
Policy and Service Development Responsibility
* Responsible for policy implementation and development for a directorate or equivalent
* Leads the development of policies and procedures for a major area of activity, ensures compliance with the corporate policies
Research and Development Responsibility
· Undertakes surveys as necessary to own work.
Freedom to Act
· Works within general policies, need to establish interpretation/required to interpret overall health service policy and strategy.
Analytical and Judgemental Responsibility
* Highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options .
· Analyses a range of very complex situations which require deciding on the way forward where no precedent exists or options conflict.
Communication Responsibility
* Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information; barriers to understanding; present complex, sensitive or contentious information to large groups.
· Provides and receives highly complex, sensitive or contentious information with significant barriers to acceptance in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
Person specification
Professional Qualification
* Achieved or working towards DIPHEPRR
Experience
* At least 3 years EPRR experience
* NHS EPRR experience
* Demonstrable incident exposure
* Organising EPRR training and exercises
Team Working
* Effectively leading multi-disciplinary teams
** Please Note **
In event of exceptionally high levels of response, we reserve the right to close the post before the date stated above in order to prevent the number of applications received being unmanageable. You are advised to submit your completed application form as soon as possible to have the best chance of being considered.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
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