OUR VALUES IN ACTION ●Care and Compassion ●Quality and Teamwork ●Dignity and Respect ●Openness, honesty and responsibility We are looking for a Planning and Resilience Manager This exciting opportunity will allow the post holder to work alongside the planning team, to lead on the delivery of the emergency planning and resilience function to ensure that NHS Borders is prepared to respond to a range of incidents. The post-holder will, through a combination of training, exercising, assurance and advisory processes, enable NHS Borders to meet its obligations as a Category 1 responder. This includes the development and maintenance of arrangements to prepare for and respond to large scale challenges to service delivery, so that NHS Borders can meet essential health care needs when normal services become overloaded, restricted or non-operational, including contributing to a joint agency response The post holder will ensure there is high level communication with senior managers and clinicians regularly to guarantee that emergency planning and business continuity is prioritised, to ensure there are adequate, tested, plans to respond to a wide variety of foreseeable events such as winter weather disruption, terrorist action, pandemic infection, infrastructure failure. This will include working with multiagency stakeholders such as Scottish Borders Council, The Scottish Ambulance Service/Police Scotland/Fire and Rescue Service. We are able to offer a hybrid working opportunity for this role. If you would like an informal discussion, please get in contact with: Carly Lyall – Senior Planning & Performance Manager Email: carly.lyallborders.scot.nhs.uk Closing Date: 2 weeks from date advert goes live PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early NHS Scotland is reducing their full-time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period, for which you would be paid, until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Hiring Manager. NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.