Emergency Preparedness Officer

2 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom UK Health Security Agency Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 344863**Salary**:

- £30,473 - £37,215**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Planning**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- UKHSA Birmingham Office (23 Stephenson Street, Birmingham, B2 4BH)About the job

**Job summary**:
The Emergency Preparedness Officer (EPO) provides local guidance for health emergency preparedness and works as part of the Regional Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR) team. Additionally, the EPO assists in ensuring governance and audit of all regional emergency plans. Furthermore, the EPO actively participates in the lessons identified process for major incidents.

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This role will based at our UKHSA Birmingham Office (23 Stephenson Street, Birmingham, B2 4BH). Hybrid working will be available, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working in the office.
- *Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas. Relocation expenses are not available.*_

**Working Pattern - **Full Time, Part Time, Job Share, Flexible Working, Hybrid Working

**Job description**:

- Act directly on behalf of the Regional EPRR Team with responsibility for implementation of service development within the area of emergency preparedness and response.
- Provide specialist knowledge in emergency planning and the supporting systems e.g. incident coordination centres and act as sole point of contact for requests for public health information from other departments, partner agencies and other.
- Lead in the design, development and maintenance of databases, spreadsheets, questionnaires, surveys and intelligence resources relevant to public health, provide complex analyses at all levels for UKHSA and partner organisations to explore new methods of data collection and dissemination.
- Work to support the EPRR team in the assessment, development, production and maintenance of the emergency preparedness and response governance annual audit and develop and maintain a set of internal standards against which the whole organisation is audited.
- Coordinate the preparation, validation, exercising, review and updating of emergency and continuity plans/policies for the centre.
- Coordinate and assist with the review process following an incident/ emergency by providing written reports which assess lessons identified, make recommendations and revisions as necessary and supervise the distribution of emergency response plans and amendments.
- Contribution, in support of the EPRR team, to the development of the staff training programme and deliver training on aspects of multi-agency EPRR processes. Include generic and role specific training including implementation and training duties around internally used incident alerting systems information sharing systems e.g. Resilience Direct
- Understand the restricted access nature of major incident and business continuity documents and handle requests for information sensitively. Contribute to and have a thorough understanding of the handling of protectively marked documents in abidance with the Official Secrets Act.
- Attend and present at relevant conferences and seminars as part of CPD to further own development and increase knowledge base.
- Support the UKHSA Regional Centre to contribute to the Local Resilience Fora and Local Health Resilience Partnerships and to represent UKHSA when appropriate or nominated which may require taking forward of specific areas of work and participation in sub-groups as necessary, taking part in Local Risk Assessment discussions.

The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The Job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary.

**Person specification**:
**Essential**
- Degree, NVQ level 4 or equivalent level vocational expertise in an emergency planning discipline (two years equivalent level vocational experience in an emergency planning discipline)
- Diploma in Health Emergency planning or working towards it having successfully completed at least the Award and Certificate levels
- Knowledge of emergency and resilience planning methodologies
- Experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Experience of managing risks and reporting

**Desirable**
- Experience of working in specialist area
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level
- Comprehensive knowledge of project principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2 Foundation and Microsoft Project
- Understanding



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