Emergency Preparedness Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main duties of the job continued:

• Ensure and strategically develop as necessary risk specific plans for the UKHSA South West region e.g. REPPIR, COMAH sites and others as listed in regional and local risk assessments.
• Ensure and manage robust response facilities and resilient secure communications in the UKHSA South West region which requires active participation in managing the response to incidents and emergencies.
• Ensure that plans and response systems are tested and exercised and to contribute and when appropriate design such exercises. Assess the strategic importance and ensure UKHSA involvement in regional and local multi-agency exercises.
• Liaise with Local Resilience Fora to ensure that UKHSA involvement in regional and local multi-agency exercises can be met within existing capacity.
• Ensure all emergency preparedness activities in their area of responsibility are audited in a way consistent with UKHSAs status as a Category 1 responder with respect to the CCA.
• Co-ordinate and lead when appropriate, internal response support arrangements during major incidents and business continuity disruptions particularly at a local level.
• Support the UKHSA South West region in its contribution to the Local Resilience Fora and Local Health Resilience Partnerships and to represent UKHSA at these fora which may require taking forward of specific areas of work and participation in sub-groups as necessary, taking part in local risk assessment discussions.
• Maintain an upward briefing and co-ordination system, ensuring the provision of strategic, tactical and operational support to a UKHSA response at which the UKHSA South West region is involved.
• Lead, co-ordinate and design as necessary the training of UKHSA South West region staff in emergency preparedness and business continuity.
• Lead the local/regional review of major incidents and UKHSA involvement in exercises. Assist in design, development and co-ordination of constructive debriefs for major incidents, dissemination of lessons identified and recommendations for future best practice.
• Participation in the relevant on-call rota
• Contribute to the preparedness for and response to major incidents and emergencies, as defined in the UKHSA Concept of Operations National Incident Response Plan and Regional Incident Response Plan, as required.
• Expected to provide mutual aid support to other EPRR staff within the region and under requests for mutual aid, in other regions and nationally.
• Work with Heads of EPRR, Senior EPMs, EPMs, and EPOs as part of a national EPRR network.

Essential Criteria

• A degree or professional qualification in emergency preparedness resilience and response (EPRR) or a related field or equivalent experience in EPRR or equivalent level vocational expertise in an emergency planning discipline.
• Knowledge of emergency and resilience planning methodologies.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholder as required.
• Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often challenging timescales.
• An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.

Desirable role criteria:

• Understanding of the public sector.
• Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project.

Selection Process Details:

This vacancy will be assessed using a competency-based framework which will assess your qualifications, knowledge and experience and / or skills and abilities outlined in the essential criteria.

Stage 1: Application & Sift

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed (8) essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:

• Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
• 1250 Supporting statement.

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

The Application form and supporting statement will be marked together.

Longlisting:

In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

• Meets all essential criteria
• Meets someessential criteria
• Meets no essentialcriteria

The following will be taken through to the next stage:

• Meets all essential criteria

Shortlisting:

In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on the following:

• A degree or professional qualification in emergency preparedness resilience and response (EPRR) or a related field or equivalent experience in EPRR or equivalent level vocational expertise in an emergency planning discipline
• Knowledge of emergency and resilience planning methodologies

Desirable criteria may be used in the event of a large number of applications / large amount of successful candidates.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview & assessment.

Please do not exceed 1250 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Please note you will not be able to upload your CV. You must complete the application form in as much detail as possible. Please do not email us your CV.

Stage 2: Interview

You will be invited to a (single) remote interview.

Knowledge, experience, skills & abilities will be tested at interview

There will be a Presentation, further details will be confirmed at this stage.

Interviews will be held week commencing 18th or 25th August.Please note, these dates are subject to change.

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Eligibility Criteria - External

Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

Location

This role is based at either Bristol, BS1 6EH OR Totnes TQ9 5NE.Please note hybrid working is not available for this role.

Security Clearance Level Requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates will require Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) as a minimum with willingness and capability to work towards Security Check (SC) clearance.

You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 5 years to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.UK residency less than the outlined periods may not necessarily bar you from gaining national security vetting at this higher level and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder / Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.

Person Specification

Application form & supporting statement

Essential

• Application form & supporting statement

Interview

Essential

• Questions on expereince knowledge and skills

Interview

Essential

• Presentation

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

Bristol OR Totnes

Bristol, Totnes

BS1 6EH

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency (Opens in a new tab)