NHS
Deputy Emergency Planning Manager
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Job Description
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- Achievement of NHSE standards for emergency and business continuity preparedness as detailed in NHSE: Standards for Organisational Resilience, NHSE Preparing for Emergencies guidance, and associated standards.
- EPRR Corporate & Divisional risk management arrangements through personal contact with General Managers, Directors and their representatives.
- The interface between emergency and business continuity plans
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Diploma in Health Emergency Planning (DipHep) or equivalent relevant qualification
- Awareness of a range of Health Services Provisions
- Evidence of relevant continuous professional development.
- Understanding of confidentiality and the Data Protection Act
- Experience across a wide range of administrative activities
- Teaching/ training experience or qualification
- Detailed and wide reaching EPRR knowledge or Experience of working in a high-pressured environment with rapidly changing priorities
- Experience in communication with a wide range of staff at all levels and in a range of organisations (internal/external stakeholders) through a range of methods (formal presentations, face to face and virtual meetings)
- Experience in dealing with sensitive and confidential information
- Experience of operating as Tactical/Silver incident /coordinator in a wider range of incident scenarios including those requiring multiagency response and incidents with prolonged response and recovery phases
- Experience of multi-agency planning, training and exercising
- Working in the NHS , or other large complex multidisciplinary and multi sited organization.
- Experience of designing and delivering training and exercising interventions to practice or validate emergency or business continuity arrangements or equivilent
- Experience of developing, maintaining and evaluating emergency and business continuity policies and plans.
- Experience of supporting NHS incident teams in responding to incidents and emergencies.
- Experience of CBRNE incident response planning and training or understanding
- Evidence of demonstrable EPRR experience and knowledge
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Diploma in Health Emergency Planning (DipHep) or equivalent relevant qualification
- Awareness of a range of Health Services Provisions
- Evidence of relevant continuous professional development.
- Understanding of confidentiality and the Data Protection Act
- Experience across a wide range of administrative activities
- Teaching/ training experience or qualification
- Detailed and wide reaching EPRR knowledge or Experience of working in a high-pressured environment with rapidly changing priorities
- Experience in communication with a wide range of staff at all levels and in a range of organisations (internal/external stakeholders) through a range of methods (formal presentations, face to face and virtual meetings)
- Experience in dealing with sensitive and confidential information
- Experience of operating as Tactical/Silver incident /coordinator in a wider range of incident scenarios including those requiring multiagency response and incidents with prolonged response and recovery phases
- Experience of multi-agency planning, training and exercising
- Working in the NHS , or other large complex multidisciplinary and multi sited organization.
- Experience of designing and delivering training and exercising interventions to practice or validate emergency or business continuity arrangements or equivilent
- Experience of developing, maintaining and evaluating emergency and business continuity policies and plans.
- Experience of supporting NHS incident teams in responding to incidents and emergencies.
- Experience of CBRNE incident response planning and training or understanding
- Evidence of demonstrable EPRR experience and knowledge
Job summary
Black Country Healthcare, is looking to appoint an experienced and motivated Deputy Emergency Planning Manager within the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) Team on a 12 month secondment or fixed term . The Deputy Emergency Planning Manager will work on specific projects to help BHCFT fulfil its duties under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and meet its obligations as described within the NHS England Core Standards for EPRR. The EPRR Deputy Manager will promote continuous improvement in BCHFT EPRR arrangements and will undertake joint working with colleagues in partner organisations to enhance plans and processes for emergency preparedness. The successful candidate will report and deputise for the Emergency Planning Manager.
The Deputy Emergency Planning Manager will be responsible for the daily management of BCHFTs emergency preparedness, resilience and response functions, and to support the enhancement and embedding of the resilience culture across the Trust. This is an opportunity to work within a diverse and complex acute Mental Health & Learning Disability hospital / community environment, working across all teams and sites of operations.
Please see Job Description and Personal Specification for full details.
Main duties of the job
This post has a direct impact on:
Adequacy of BCHFT's business continuity planning and arrangements
Please see Job Description and Personal Specification for full details.
About us
Organisational and professional responsibilities
The post holder will be required to:
1. Deputise for the General Manager in EPRR aspects of their role in their absence.
2. Have financial responsibility to sign off staff rosters and invoices for procured items/services.
3. Line manage staff within the department
4. Develop their knowledge, experience, professional skills and aptitudes by progressively increasing a portfolio of responsibilities over time
5. At all times display excellent interpersonal skills
6. Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing and in presentations
7. Prepare clear and well laid out plans, reports, briefings and guidance commensurate with the appropriate level of knowledge and experience
8. Liaise with a range of contacts across a variety of organisations to communicate technical, complex, sensitive or contentious information
9. Employ negotiating and/or persuasive skills to achieve desired outcomes
10. Employ project management techniques to achieve discrete objectives within a wider work programme
11. Use a variety of information and communications technology to relay information
12. Write and prepare meeting notes and minutes where necessary and arrange meetings and events as required
Please see Job Description and Personal Specification for full details.
Date posted
03 April 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 a year Per annum
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
285-5092-CORP
Job locations
Black Country Healthcare NHS FT
Civic Centre, Wulfrana Street
Wolverhampton
WV1 9SE
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Personal Specification for full details.
The Deputy Emergency Planning Manager will be responsible for the daily management of BCHFTs emergency preparedness, resilience and response functions, and to support the enhancement and embedding of the resilience culture across the Trust. This is an opportunity to work within a diverse and complex acute Mental Health & Learning Disability hospital / community environment, working across all teams and sites of operations.
Job responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Personal Specification for full details.
The Deputy Emergency Planning Manager will be responsible for the daily management of BCHFTs emergency preparedness, resilience and response functions, and to support the enhancement and embedding of the resilience culture across the Trust. This is an opportunity to work within a diverse and complex acute Mental Health & Learning Disability hospital / community environment, working across all teams and sites of operations.
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Experience
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Desirable
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Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Additional informationDisclosure 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
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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
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Black Country Healthcare NHS FT
Civic Centre, Wulfrana Street
Wolverhampton
WV1 9SE
Employer's website
https://www.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Black Country Healthcare NHS FT
Civic Centre, Wulfrana Street
Wolverhampton
WV1 9SE
Employer's website
https://www.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.