Regional Head of Emergency Preparedness, Resilience

2 months ago

Leeds, United Kingdom UK Health Security Agency Full time

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

- 265277**Salary**:

- £62,489 - £71,893**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- The Regional Head of Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR) is a pivotal post within the Yorkshire & Humber Region and strategically leads the regional EPRR portfolio. The Regional Head of EPRR is the point of strategic decision making i**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- Blenheim House Leeds LS1 4PLAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The **Regional Head of Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR)** is a pivotal post within the Yorkshire & Humber Region and strategically leads the regional EPRR portfolio.

**Job description**:
Operating as an autonomous practitioner within professional boundaries, the postholder will assist the regional leadership with the command and control of major and critical incidents. They are a key member of the regional senior leadership team and work closely with the senior colleagues within the designated regional area and across geographical and organisational boundaries. This involves understanding complex environments and situations and engaging multidisciplinary stakeholders which is key to integrating the UKHSA region into regional responses to incidents and mutual support activities.

The role is key in ensuring a continued state of preparedness in order that the UKHSA Yorkshire & Humber region is able to identify, react, respond, and recover from all incidents, hazards and threats both planned and unscheduled ensuring, that where practical, measures are in place to maintain continuity of its core business. The post holder will use their expertise in EPRR and seek to develop and embed good practice by using lessons identified from experiences and debriefs of incidents, exercises and events nationally. They will ensure that EPRR is an integral part of business planning, strategy and operations across the region.

**Person specification**:
**EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS**:
**Essential criteria**:
**Desirable criteria**:

- Professional/vocational courses related to EPRR i.e., Business Continuity Certification, Teaching qualification
- Completed Principles of Health Command Training
- Project and programme management qualifications or equivalent experience for example Prince 2, Managing Successful Programmes, Agile PM
- Member of an EPRR professional Body

**KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Substantial senior level Resilience/ Business Continuity experience, with significant operational management experience of a multi-functional team
- Highly developed knowledge of legislation and guidance in relation to emergency planning, civil contingencies and business continuity
- Significant experience in organisational transformation and business change in a large complex matrix organisation leading large scale or national programmes of work
- Experience planning and delivering training programmes and large and small scale tabletop and live play exercises including structured debriefing
- Experience of and in-depth knowledge of emergency service command and control procedures
- Experience of creating, and utilising organisational governance, risk management and compliance procedures to improve the resilience of the organisation
- Can demonstrate significant partnership working and the understanding of how and when partnerships should be built, navigating and understanding local, regional and national political positions in order to effect solutions that span across multiple stakeholders

**Desirable criteria**:
**SKILLS & CAPABILITIES**:
**Essential criteria**:

- The ability to analyse complex issues and succinctly present concise evaluation and options for a senior audience, in writing and orally
- Effective leader demonstrates integrity and personal credibility. Strives for excellence, is innovative and creative
- Ability to draw on established evidence and best practice and to challenge themselves and others to think creatively and seek out and spread innovation to generate new solutions to current and future challenges
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal) in a politically sensitive environment and experience of handling complex, controversial and/or sensitive information to a variety of stakeholders with tact, persuasion and diplomacy
- Uses sound judgement, evidence and knowledge to arrive at accurate, expert and professional decisions and advice

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:
**Stage 1 - Application & Sift**

This vacancy will use competency-based questions to assess the experien

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