Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) Support Manager

The role is

critical for the Trust in ensuring delivery of the Trusts EPRR strategy and compliance

with the EPRR Core Standards.

The postholder will: -

Act

autonomously and proactively under the Head of EPRR and the Trust Resilience

Forum to deliver and maintain of the Trusts Emergency

Be responsible for ensuring the success of

project activities such as benefit realisation or change management

Attend health and multi-agency EPRR groups providing health

liaison and input as well as administrative support.

Act in a supportive leadership role to EPRR by providing expert

advice to the incident management team and ensuring preparedness for any major

or business continuity incident

Participate in the risk assessment process, including identifying,

quantifying and recording risks.

Prepare and maintain the Local Health Resilience Partnership

(LHRP) Risk Register.

Support the Head of EPRR in the delivery of training and

exercises, including exercise development and co-ordination of exercises and

training courses.

Build

and manage relationships within the supply chain to maximise the benefits by

dovetailing plans together

This is an

exciting opportunity to be support CDDFTs Emergency Preparedness, resilience

and response service. You would be providing comprehensive and robust support

to the Head of EPRR to act as an implementation lead and by doing so providing

assurances to internal and external organisations that County Durham and

Darlington NHS Foundation Trust (CDDFT) has appropriate emergency planning and

business continuity measures in place in line with the Civil Contingencies Act

2004 and other relevant legislation, standards and guidance.

You will work with senior

managers across the CDDFT to develop robust policies and procedures in respect

of emergency planning and business continuity and to take a leadership role by

managing projects from initiation to closure and supporting the delivery of

appropriate training.

If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager.

You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

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