Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR)
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On Call Requirement (Once qualified))
- Job ref
- 275-1025-EPRR-O
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Maritime Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 Per Annum / Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Emergency Preparedness, Resilience & Response Officer
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
Job Title: Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR) Officer
Division: Central Operations - Corporate
Band: NHS AFC Band 5
Salary: £31,049 - £37,796
We are recruiting for an Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR) Officer who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Emergency Planning & CBRN Preparedness
- Develop, implement, and maintain emergency plans and guidance for:
- Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) incidents
- Major Incidents
- Mass Fatalities
- Business Continuity
- Coordinate planning activities with internal and external stakeholders.
- Maintain and update emergency preparedness documentation (e.g., Major Incident Plan, Pandemic Plan).
2. Policy & Guidance Development
- Create and monitor Trust-wide emergency planning and business continuity policies.
- Propose and implement changes to plans and guidance as needed.
- Ensure alignment with national and local resilience frameworks.
3. Training & Exercises
- Design, implement, and review training programmes and exercises.
- Deliver face-to-face training in line with programme requirements.
- Promote CBRN and Major Incident training to relevant staff.
- Manage physical resources for training and exercises.
4. Communication & Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as the first point of contact for emergency planning and business continuity queries.
- Provide complex and sometimes sensitive information using persuasion and reassurance.
- Ensure effective communication and collaboration across divisions and agencies.
5. Information Management & Research
- Research and interpret emergency planning and business continuity information.
- Monitor updates from resilience websites (e.g., DoH, UK Resilience, EPS).
- Maintain databases and intranet sites with relevant and timely information.
6. Operational Support & Leadership
- Provide support during major incidents to Strategic and Tactical Commanders.
- Deputise for the Head of EPRR when qualified.
- Supervise students and junior staff as appropriate.
- Prioritise workload under pressure and respond to changing circumstances.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to diploma level or equivalent relevant experience and knowledge
- Qualified or ability to become qualified in EPRR
- Has a willingness to become a member of the Emergency Planning society and the Business Continuity Institute.
Desirable criteria
- EPRR related qualifications e.g. Resilience Academy
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of Emergency Planning & Business Continuity legislation and processes
- Understanding of Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and all relevant NHS Guidance.
- MS Office systems and practice.
Desirable criteria
- Familiar with Resilience Direct
- Familiar with Incident SitRep Reporting
Experience
Essential criteria
- It is expected that the principal candidate for this role is a experienced individual with proven experience in Emergency Planning and / or Business Continuity or relevant transferable experience and who is seeking to further their career in Emergency Planning and Business Continuity.
- Experience in working with Emergency Planning and Business Continuity Officer
- Experience in working in a high pressured and complex department
- Formal Loggist Experience and/or training
- Experience of co-ordinating events
- Familiar with Business Continuity/EPRR planning
- Experience at working with Executive colleagues and external partners
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate advice and train others
- Keyboard skills, including intermediate to advanced Microsoft Word and Excel skills
- A high level of IT literacy
- Ability to prioritise and organise a large volume of work with frequently changing priorities and work systematically towards deadlines
- Ability to converse with, and win the confidence of, a diverse group of professional staff, managers and the public
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to analyse and interpret written information
- Understanding of, and ability to maintain, confidentiality at all times
- An effective and supportive trainer
- Flexible with an ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment
- Has the ability to develop good working relationships with clinical groups
- Takes responsibility and demonstrates ownership of tasks
- Able to work on own initiative
Desirable criteria
- Has experience with website or database development would be an advantage
- Providing tactical advice to senior members of staff during a high pressurised event / incident
- Providing strategic advice to senior members of staff during a high pressurised event / incident
- Detailed understanding of emergency planning, business continuity, crisis management, risk management and counter terrorism
Other Atributes
Essential criteria
- Flexible and adaptable to change to meet the needs of the service.
- Upholds and models the Trust Values
- Ability to travel offsite to local and regional meetings
- Ability to respond out of hours when required
- Ability and willingness to undertake the formal qualification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Brian Williams
- Job title
- Head of EPRR & BC
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01634 825275
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