Emergency Planning Support Officer

4 weeks ago


Oldham, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
The post holder will be responsible for supporting the development and implementation of service continuity plans for the Organisation, including the four hospital sites and community services of the Care Organisations ensuring that they meet the requirements of NHS England core standards.

The post holder will undertake those duties allocated in relation to emergency preparedness and service continuity as are delegated by the Head of EPRR including responding to emergencies and service disruptions.

**Main duties of the job**:
To support the delivery of the Trust’s Incident Response, CBRN, emergency preparedness, business continuity and resilience planning functions and support the continued development of resilience across the Trust.

Supports the Head of EPRR and Emergency Preparedness Officers by assisting to put in place fully effective arrangements which will provide the appropriate operational response for major / protracted / critical / incidents, as they occur and develop, and maintains service continuity plans across the Group.

Working collaboratively within the EPRR Team support the Group to achieve and maintain high levels of emergency preparedness in order to effectively respond to any internal and external major incidents.

Working collaboratively within the EPRR Team to maintain and test Continuity Plans in association with the Care Organisations, ensuring that the Group meets NHS England core standards in EPRR.

Working collaboratively within the EPRR Team, supporting the Group and the Care Organisation Resilience Fora including any EPRR task and finish groups as directed by the Head of EPPRU.

Contributes to the production of the EPRR annual report.

Support staff training in EPRR policies and procedures

Support the delivery of Exercise programmes and prepare feedback reports as required

Ensure the Incident Coordination Centre is maintained and operationally ready to respond to incidents

Support in gathering evidence in support of external audits and the NHS England EPRR core standards

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 19,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. At the NCA, we can offer groupwide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team. We believe in saving and improving lives and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local community. If you share our vision, take your place with us.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Desirable criteria**:

- Further training or significant experience in emergency preparedness, resilience and response (EPRR)
- Hold or working towards Diploma in Health Emergency Planning
- Hold a qualification in designing and delivering adult education - PGCE/Cert.Ed. / DTLLS / CTLLS / PTLLS / QTLS / C&G 7307. BTEC

**Knowledge, Skills, training and Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Knowledge of Civil Contingencies Act and the role in that of the NHS
- Knowledge of Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR)
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Strong analytical skills to inform focussed and accurate action planning

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience in training and development
- Experience of performance and quality monitoring, management and improvement
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management and/or health information systems development
- Previous experience in similar role in public or private sector
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and the roles and responsibilities within it
- Proven ability to develop training programs and delivery frameworks

**Communication skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences
- Skills for communication on complex matters and difficu



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