Head of Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response

• Leading the Trust's emergency preparedness, resilience, and response arrangements.
• Developing and maintaining major incident, business continuity and resilience plans.
• Providing strategic leadership on business continuity and emergency planning.
• Leading the development of Trust policies, procedures and governance arrangements relating to EPRR.
• Delivering training, exercising and assurance programmes.
• Advising the Executive Team, Board committees and senior leaders on resilience risks and preparedness.
• Leading organisational responses to major incidents and supporting Strategic and Tactical command arrangements when required.
• Representing TEWV within Local Health Resilience Partnerships, Local Resilience Forums and wider multi-agency resilience networks.
• Co-ordinating and delivering actions arising from system resilience workstreams and partnership forums.

Essential

• Relevant degree or equivalent experience in the area of Emergency Planning and Business Continuity.
• Professional qualification in Emergency Planning, Resilience or Business Continuity (e.g. DipHEP, CBCI or equivalent)

Essential

• Experience of working at a senior level within the NHS or similarly complex public sector organisation and have a good understanding of its processes and systems.
• Experience of managing staff to ensure EPRR priorities are within their departmental plans.
• Significant experience in emergency planning and / or business continuity management or related field
• Track record of delivering successful projects, ensuring robust project management, including mitigation of risks and issues.
• Experience of promoting and developing emergency planning activities at strategic and operational levels.
• Experience of researching, developing and implementing contingency planning-related training and exercise programmes.
• Experience of presenting assurance reports to Board or Executive level committees
• Experience of leading organisational change and influencing senior executive leaders.
• Experience of conducting negotiations relating to detailed matters both internal and external to the organisation
• Budget management experience.
• Evidence of leadership and management of change, particularly of culture and working practices.
• Experience of developing effective working relationships in a multi-agency environment in the context of emergency planning.
• Experience of writing organisational policies, plans and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Essential

• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Experience of conducting negotiations relating to detailed matters both internal and external to the organisation
• Budget management experience
• Evidence of leadership and management of change, particularly of culture and working practices
• Experience of developing effective working relationships in a multi agency environment in the context of emergency planning
• Experience of writing organisational policies, plans and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Proven ability to manage and influence staff of all levels / grades. Will directly line manage
• Excellent working knowledge of IM&T tools / techniques, with the ability to create, manipulate and utilise detailed spreadsheets, databases, project management and other relevant software.
• Extensive knowledge of information and communications technology (ICT) and practices for the purposes of developing effective contingency arrangements
• Knowledge of duties imposed on the Trust by legislation, NHS Policy and the requirements of Corporate Governance and audit
• Political skills, including the ability to influence and manage a range of internal and external stakeholders
• Analytical / judgement / research skills, particularly with regard to risk management / contingency planning issues
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to present coherent arguments in support of business cases and operational requirements
• Ability to turn planning guidance into strategic and operational contingency plans
• Experienced trainer

Essential

• Experience of working at a senior level within the NHS or similarly complex public sector organisation and have a good understanding of its processes and systems
• Experience of managing staff to ensure EPRR priorities are within their departmental plans.
• Significant experience in emergency planning and / or business continuity management or related field
• Have in depth knowledge of general and specific statutory requirements relating to emergency planning and the resilience 'arena', particularly the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and how this applies to the Trust and their patient care responsibilities
• Track record of delivering successful projects, ensuring robust project management, including mitigation of risks and issues.
• Experience of promoting and developing emergency planning activities at strategic and operational levels.
• Understanding of risk management and experience of implementing business continuity programmes across organisations
• Experience of researching, developing and implementing contingency planning-related training and exercise programmes
• Experience of presenting assurance reports to Board or Executive level committees.
• Experience of leading organisational change and influencing senior executive leaders
• Ability to collate and analyse complex information and produce concise reports and presentations for a wide variety of audience
• Ability to provide comprehensive reports for submission to Trust Board and other committees
• The post holder must have the ability and presence to represent the Trust within the wider system
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills