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NHS Herefordshire & Worcestershire Integrated Care Board
About
NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB is the NHS organisation responsible for planning, buying and monitoring health services for our population of 800,888 who live within a mix of urban and rurally dispersed communities, spanning two of the largest counties in England.
We have a workforce of over 250 employees and hold a budget of £1.19 billion to commission hospital, community and mental health services. Our organisation is a dynamic, forward-looking and vibrant place to work, set within the backdrop of some of the country’s most beautiful countryside.
Contact
- Address
- NHS Herefordshire & Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group
- The Coach House
- John Comyn Drive
- Perdiswell
- Worcester
- WR3 7NS
- Contact Number
- 01905681978
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open_in_new JobsEPRR & Business Continuity Manager
Closed for applications on: 5-Sept-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 5-Sept-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Kirkham House
- Address
- John Comyn Drive
- Town
- Worcester
- Postcode
- WR3 7NS
- Major / Minor Region
- Worcestershire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Emergency planning, business continuity
- Interview date
- 23/09/2024
The ICB strives to be a supportive, caring employer and expects all colleagues to behave in a professional, inclusive and respectful manner and to demonstrate the values which underpin our vision for the population of Herefordshire and Worcestershire:
- Kindness
- Trust
- Honesty
- Fairness
- Respect
- Inclusive
We are committed to providing an environment of inclusion and mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, marital status, religion or belief. Our goal is to be a diverse organisation that is representative, at all levels, of the communities we serve, and we are especially keen to receive applications from our ethnic minority communities and our LGBTQ+ communities.
Applicants who identify as being disabled who meet the essential criteria for this post will be invited to interview. The ICB strives to make the recruitment process as inclusive as possible, so please also inform us of any reasonable adjustments that you may need during the process.
Job overview
Within Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB, the Emergency Planning Resilience and Response (EPRR) team is responsible for the delivery of our statutory and assurance duties and emergency preparedness resilience and response to ensure the ICB and system is prepared 24/7.
We are looking for an EPRR & Business Continuity Manager to join our dynamic and high-profile team. The role is essential in contributing to the delivery of our EPRR vision of ensuring Herefordshire and Worcestershire system is fully prepared and resilient.
The EPRR & Business Continuity Manager will work with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to develop and maintain arrangements to manage assurance and compliance, including management and escalation of incidents across healthcare providers within the Integrated Care System, across Herefordshire & Worcestershire.
NHS Herefordshire & Worcestershire ICB recognises the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans, and military families bring to our business and would encourage people from the armed forces community to apply for our vacancies.
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We are seeking an enthusiastic EPRR and Business Continuity professional with excellent teamwork, communication and organisational skills. The ideal candidate will have knowledge and experience of EPRR and/or Business Continuity within the NHS or a partner agency.
This post is responsible for ensuring assurance and compliance requirements of the ICB are established and in place reflecting the asks of national frameworks and ensuring UEC, on call and SCC processes and embedded within the planning process.
As a subject matter expert, the successful candidate will provide specialist advice and guidance to support develop and maintain EPRR and Business Continuity adherence within HWICB and externally to commissioned services and multi-agency partners, escalating as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
The NHS is a world-renowned institution and an exciting place to work, full of challenges and opportunities. Within NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB we are responsible for a range of health services for our population of over 800,000 people. We are a dynamic, forward-looking organisation set within the backdrop of some of the country’s most beautiful countryside
The EPRR Team has a broad and wide-ranging operational programme of work including Immunisations and Screening, Migrant Health, emergency planning and business continuity, health prevention and outreach.
We provide a supportive and collaborative environment where we work with our staff to provide opportunities for you to reach your full potential. We aim to enable our employees to achieve a positive work-life balance through a blend of collaborative workplace attendance combined with regular home working. Joining our inclusive and innovative team comes with a range of attractive benefits including:
· Employee Assistance programme inc. on-line health and wellbeing support
· Competitive NHS Pension Scheme
· Comprehensive opportunities to learn new skills and to develop your career
· Hybrid working arrangements with a mix of office and home working expectations
We operate a 3-month probationary period for new appointments
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Support Head of EPRR with the compliance to the NHS EPRR and Business Continuity frameworks and Civil Contingencies Act 2014.
- Contribute to the delivery of strategic work plans, enabling key milestones to be delivered.
- Development and coordination of Business Continuity Plans/Impact Assessments across the ICB directorates and with a broad range of organisations, building in learning from previous incidents through the analysis of impact on the local system.
- Working with NHS contract holders to ensure EPRR and core plans are embedded and plans are interoperable with the ICB/ICS requirements. This will involve working closely with contracting, digital and primary and other teams.
- Development and revisions of EPRR protocols, plans and work programmes with health and resilience multi-agency partners to ensure preparedness and response plans, testing and exercising are in place for the System.
- Provide specialist EPRR and Business Continuity Planning support and advice in the response to incidents by actively participating in ICS level incident command structures.
· You will support the ICB respond to any incident, including coordination and subject matter advice to incident commanders as well as providing cross cover where needed. You may also support with the development and maintenance of arrangements relating to the SCC and Urgent and Emergency Care where there is an overlap with EPRR.
- Supporting the Head of EPRR ensure that training and exercising is scheduled to deliver and reflects local, regional and national asks and requirements to meet compliance. The post holder will be required to undertake an education trainer course to support training delivery, debrief training and the UKHSA DipHEPRR course in addition to NHSE training programmes in line with the ICB training policy.
- Manage and support delivery of the Business Continuity & BCMS (Business Continuity Management System) ICB workplan including assurance and audit, supporting the system as required.
· You must be able to demonstrate excellent teamwork, communication and organisational skills and demonstrate flexibility and adaptability as EPRR is very unpredictable.
- Ensure the On Call process for band 8C’s and above including management of on call files and relevant training and exercising requirements in line with our on-call policy.
- Support the delivery of the Principles of Health Training and other specified training across the ICB and wider system.
- Prepared to support and represent the in hours Tactical Level response and pre-event meetings if required for each county. Work with other EPRR, Business Continuity Leads ensuring a consistent and measured approach for our commissioned providers including primary care, dentists, and optometry.
- Keep abreast of new national and regional policies, and guidance on emergency planning and Business Continuity interpreting this for the organisation and implementing changes and training, as necessary. Update and maintain ICB and ICS EPRR and Business Continuity Policies.
- Work with the Head of EPRR to ensure a transparent and robust process for the Annual Core Standards process for the ICB and those NHS commissioned service providers is in place.
- Develop and support workstreams and input into specific system plans and action cards to support and represent the HWICS system including the West Mercia Local Resilience Forum (WMLF). Attend and support the peacetime Local Resilience Forum meetings for each county (CPEG).
- Support the Local Health Resilience Partnership (LHRP) and subgroups/committees to ensure health and social care agenda key risks and ICS programmes are aligned, supporting delivery of key agreed programmes.
- Supporting the Head of EPRR with managing risk and escalation, ensuring alignment of corporate, ICS, LHRP and WMLF risks are aligned.
- Through close working with colleagues in the ICB/ICS, continuously improve the standards of EPRR, Business Continuity and risk management.
· The role delivery will reflect the NHSE EPPR & Business framework requirements and guidance, NHSE assurance programmes including the Core Standards Annual Assessment, Civil Contingencies Act, and national guidance all underpinning EPRR and Business Continuity.
** Please Note **
In the 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.
Please note that candidates will be shortlisted against the criteria outlined within the Person Specification, therefore to avoid disappointment please ensure you meet the requirements of the role before applying and that you are able to demonstrate these requirements throughout your application form.
The salary range for this post is determined in line with the national Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions of Service. Please note that new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first paypoint of the relevant band.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Educated to master’s degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or experience of working in a similar or response EPRR and/or Business Continuity role.
Desirable criteria
- • UKHSA DippHEPRR qualification
- • BTEC 3 or equivalent training qualification
- • Principles of Health – NHS Training
- • UKHSA Debrief Training
- • Loggist training/trainer
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of working in an Emergency Planning and/or Business continuity core response role or equivalent experience.
- • Experience in supporting the delivery of successful projects.
- • Experience in the preparation and production of concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders.
- • Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working in a healthcare setting
- • Experience of leading large-scale projects
Skills, Knowledge & Competencies
Essential criteria
- • Ability to analyse complex facts and situations where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- • Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- • Knowledge of UK healthcare and current issues impacting NHS – including the EPRR Framework and Civil Contingencies Act 2024.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- • Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where they may be a number of courses of action.
- • Ability to work on own initiative and organise own and others workload without supervision working to tight and often changing timescales.
- • Ability to work under pressure, dealing with peaks and troughs in workload management, unpredictable service demands.
- • Makes complex judgements by analysing and interpreting a wide variety of information and data sources to compare options and to take action as appropriate.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Hancock
- Job title
- Head of EPRR
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07815 467222
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