Emergency Planning Lead

1 week ago


Warwick, United Kingdom South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Lead and manage the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Recovery (EPRR) function for the Trust delivering excellent key performance outcomes and ensuring that the Trust can discharge its responsibilities for EPRR as set out in the Civil Contingencies Act (2004), Health and Social Care Act 2012 and supporting guidance. To include:

- Incident response - significant and major
- Business Continuity
- Critical Incidents
- CBRN
- Pandemic Infections
- Adverse Weather that is a threat to operations
- Environmental Disaster
- Other emergency threats to the safety of patients and staf

Enable the organisation to mitigate the effects of a significant incident, major incident, pandemic influenza or other emergency, including preserving life and essential services; promoting recovery and restoring normal working; protecting the population and environment; provision of appropriate crisis support.

To provide leadership and support to the organisation for the management of resilience, ensuring that it is an integral part of operations, linking closely with the local authority, other health and social care providers.

Work closely with the relevant staff to ensure that departmental level business continuity plans are in place, up to date and fit for purpose for the organisation

To provide advice and support on the plans and legislation to the Chief Executive and Executive Directors on call in the event of a major incident.

Reporting to Chief Operating Officer who is the Accountable Emergency Officer (AEO) for EPRR. This post is accountable for the delivery of Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity throughout the Trust

Develops and leads the emergency planning agenda's and alongside the Chief Operating Officer is responsible for compliance with all statutory legislation within the remit of the post including (but not restricted to):

- The Civil Contingencies Act 2004
- Health and Social Care Act 2012
- Care Quality Commission resilience standards
- The Department of Health and Cabinet Office: National Framework for responding to an influenza Pandemic and associated guidance
- ISO 22301

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

**The post holder will be expected to**:
To provide leadership in the area of resilience and to ensure the identification and management of all of the organisations’ emergency planning resilience under the Civil Contingencies Act and Department for Health guidance.

To act as the first point of contact for all matters concerning emergency planning and resilience for South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT)

To ensure the Trust remains compliant with and be responsible for development and implementation of all EPRR related policies across the Trust at strategic, tactical and operational levels e.g., ‘flu pandemic, fuel restrictions, flooding, inclement weather, heatwave, etc.’

Ensure that managers at all levels understand the importance of effective planning for resilience, that they are supported to develop and update these and that they are robustly tested and have plans that meet EPRR compliance standards.

To coordinate and provide advice and / or regular performance reports and updates to the Board and relevant sub-committees relating to routine and urgent matters around EPRR.

To develop consultative and collaborative partnership arrangements with local Acute Trusts, CCGs, Local Authorities, Emergency Services and other partner organisations to ensure coordination of respective Major Incident, Business Continuity Plans and any other Emergency Planning arrangements as necessary across the system

To coordinate the NHS England Core Standards for EPRR annual self-assessment assurance audit.

Develop and deliver local training workshops and exercises relating to EPRR and business continuity within the Trust to relevant staff groups ensuring exercises occur (within national specified frequency)

To practice, test and validate the robustness of existing plans. The analysis of outcomes and audit of performance will inform any alterations to the plans a


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