Job summary
Emergency Preparedness Response and Resilience (EPRR) Officer- Band 7
Barts Health NHS Trust has a vision to be a high performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond.
Interviews will take place on the 24th July 2024
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Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and forward-thinking Emergency Preparedness Response and Resilience (EPRR) Officer to join our EPRR team. The team is responsible for the provision of professional and expert advice, guidance, information, training, and support to Trust Colleagues on all matters relating to EPRR, this includes business continuity and major incident planning.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Emergency Planning or equivalent.
- Diploma in Health EPRR Or Experience of working in the NHS or Public Sector with responsibility for emergency planning and/or Business Continuity.
Experience
Essential
- Working with partners leading on policy review and implementation.
- Experience of working across staff groups and delivering training to the needs of each specialty.
- Supporting the delivery of multi-agency exercises that test emergency and business continuity programmes.
- Support the development of population wide protection plans such as flu pandemic, heatwave, evacuation etc.
- Responsibility for a range of policy interpretation, implementation and policy development.
- Facilitation of debrief and after action reviews.
Knowledge
Essential
- In-depth knowledge of the principles underpinning integrated emergency management.
- In-depth knowledge of key legislation and guidance underpinning EPRR functions.
- Knowledge of complex organisations and their inter-relationships.
- Provide specialised advice concerning the care of identified groups in response to major incidents.
Skills
Essential
- Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathetic or reassurance skills are required.
- Ability to critically analyse and interpret a range of complex facts, situations and information.
- Project management.
- Excellent organisation, work planning and prioritisation skills.
- Ability to concentrate for long periods of time intensely and with frequent interruptions.
- Keyboard and IT skills incorporating Microsoft office and Excel to enable the post holder to provide in-depth situational reports and presentations.
Other
Essential
- Professional and positive attitude.
- Willingness to take ownership for the delivery of service to a high standard.
- Flexibility in working hours.
- Basic level of physical fitness to enable delivery of specialist training
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Emergency Planning or equivalent.
- Diploma in Health EPRR Or Experience of working in the NHS or Public Sector with responsibility for emergency planning and/or Business Continuity.
Experience
Essential
- Working with partners leading on policy review and implementation.
- Experience of working across staff groups and delivering training to the needs of each specialty.
- Supporting the delivery of multi-agency exercises that test emergency and business continuity programmes.
- Support the development of population wide protection plans such as flu pandemic, heatwave, evacuation etc.
- Responsibility for a range of policy interpretation, implementation and policy development.
- Facilitation of debrief and after action reviews.
Knowledge
Essential
- In-depth knowledge of the principles underpinning integrated emergency management.
- In-depth knowledge of key legislation and guidance underpinning EPRR functions.
- Knowledge of complex organisations and their inter-relationships.
- Provide specialised advice concerning the care of identified groups in response to major incidents.
Skills
Essential
- Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathetic or reassurance skills are required.
- Ability to critically analyse and interpret a range of complex facts, situations and information.
- Project management.
- Excellent organisation, work planning and prioritisation skills.
- Ability to concentrate for long periods of time intensely and with frequent interruptions.
- Keyboard and IT skills incorporating Microsoft office and Excel to enable the post holder to provide in-depth situational reports and presentations.
Other
Essential
- Professional and positive attitude.
- Willingness to take ownership for the delivery of service to a high standard.
- Flexibility in working hours.
- Basic level of physical fitness to enable delivery of specialist training
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
