University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for detailed job description of the role.
Open only to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Southern Health FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, Solent NHS Trust, South Central Ambulance Service or Hampshire Hospitals FT.
The Deputy Head of Emergency Preparedness, Resilience & Response (EPRR) is a high-profile role with Trust wide responsibility.
Working with the Head of Emergency Planning, the post holder will support delivery of the NHS EPRR requirement and its portfolio for the Trust, ensuring the Trust remains resilient to incidents and disruptive events.
Together, the EPRR Team will enable the organisation, as a Category 1 responder, to meet the full statutory duties under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, ensuring alignment of the Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) to ISO22301 and NHS England Core standards for EPRR, and to evolving national guidance, supporting the site operations team to manage incidents effectively.
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Key Responsibilities:
1. Support the Hospital based tactical resilience groups to develop robust site based resilience plans.
2. Support the design, delivery and maintenance of a comprehensive Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) across all Trust directorates, delivery partners and supply chain; fulfilling the requirements of stakeholders and aligning the Trust to ISO 22301 providing assurance to regulators.
3. Maintain the Trust's business continuity management system and ensure it stays relevant to the risk environment such as industrial action, terrorism or infectious diseases outbreaks.
4. Ensure the Board of Directors and site operations teams are fully briefed and confident in the Trust's preparedness arrangements.
5. Support the Trust's emergency planning function to manage the response to major and / or mass casualty incidents by supporting the development and maintenance of key response plans and action cards.
6. Support strategic, tactical and operational managers to ensure they are confident in their command and control roles.
7. Aid the site operational teams formulate the operational response to planned and unplanned events.
8. Assist with, and lead as appropriate, the comprehensive training and exercising programmes for staff at all levels from 'floor to Board' with specialist training for those members of staff with specific roles in the Trust's response to incidents, and all managers on the on-call rota.
9. Where required by Trust Leadership, directly support the response to an incident, crises, or emergency. This may require a flexible approach to business working hours, extended hours at work, and a requirement to attend University Hospital Southampton (UHS) out of core business hours.
For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the ‘Job Description and Main Responsibilities’ section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached. #J-18808-Ljbffr