Job summary
Digital Health and Care Wales has set an ambitious objective to provide world leading digital services, empowering people to live healthier lives. An opportunity has arisen for an experienced, highly motivated and enthusiastic Emergency Planning Lead to join us as we deliver data and technology to health organisations across primary, community and tertiary care in Wales.
This role is all about providing leadership and support for the organisation's statutory responsibilities for emergency preparedness and response.
Main duties of the job
These include supporting the provision of an efficient, effective and high quality professional and well co-ordinated Emergency Planning and Business Continuity function capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements. This includes preparedness, response and resilience.
The post holder will act as the lead for these functions and as an advisory resource to the Executive Team and all directorates. The post holder will be responsible for developing and managing relevant organisational wide plans and processes and for co-ordinating engagement with key stakeholders at local, Wales and UK level.
The postholder will deliver relevant training and exercising to test organisational and national plans with scenarios that align to local and national risk assessment requirements
About us
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is part of the NHS Wales family and has an important role in changing the way health and care services are delivered through technology and data. The organisation supports frontline staff with modern systems and access to important information about their patients, while empowering the people of Wales to manage their own health through digital NHS Wales services.
Working for DHCW offers lots of employee benefits, including flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays and opportunities for career development. We are committed to recognising and celebrating our staff as the most valuable part of our organisation.
Join our game changing, life-saving team and start making a real difference to health and care services in Wales.
Job description
Job responsibilities
(see Main duties of the job)
The skills needed are:
Job description
Job responsibilities
(see Main duties of the job)
The skills needed are:
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential
- Educated to Masters degree level and / or equivalent relevant experience and knowledge in the specialist fields of emergency planning, response and resilience, programme management or business continuity
- Understanding of emergency planning and business continuity legislation, regulations and standards.
- Fully conversant with national command, control and coordination requirements including competence to fulfil the necessary roles of a Tactical (Silver) leader
Desirable
- Formal teaching qualification e.g. Post Graduate Certificate of Education.
Experience
Essential
- Effective cooperative working with partner agencies in a resilience setting during a critical occurrence / major incident / high profile public event.
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to undertake business impact analysis, gap analysis and risks assessments
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential
- Educated to Masters degree level and / or equivalent relevant experience and knowledge in the specialist fields of emergency planning, response and resilience, programme management or business continuity
- Understanding of emergency planning and business continuity legislation, regulations and standards.
- Fully conversant with national command, control and coordination requirements including competence to fulfil the necessary roles of a Tactical (Silver) leader
Desirable
- Formal teaching qualification e.g. Post Graduate Certificate of Education.
Experience
Essential
- Effective cooperative working with partner agencies in a resilience setting during a critical occurrence / major incident / high profile public event.
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to undertake business impact analysis, gap analysis and risks assessments
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).
