Emergency Preparedness Officer

2 weeks ago


Liverpool, United Kingdom UK Health Security Agency Full time

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

- 343415**Salary**:

- £30,473 - £37,215- per annum pro rata- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Liverpool, Manchester, PrestonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
UKHSA’s North West Region has three health protection teams covering Cheshire and Merseyside, Cumbria and Lancashire and Greater Manchester. Reporting to the Senior Emergency Preparedness Manager, the Emergency Preparedness Officer (EPO) will develop their existing experience to provide a source of expertise in all aspects of public health emergency preparedness, resilience, and response (EPRR) within the region.

In line with the principles of Integrated Emergency Management, the EPO will be expected to ensure that responsibilities for emergency planning, resilience and business continuity are discharged effectively across the North West.

The postholder will be a committed professional with necessary skills and experience to provide the North West with expert advice and support. The postholder will also be expected to work to tight and often changing timescales. Existing knowledge of EPRR alongside experience of coordinating projects will be a clear advantage.

**Job description**:
The EPO is pivotal to the work of the EPRR team to:

- provide leadership on EPRR, ensuring resilience across the region, providing direction in development, coordination and delivery of the organisation’s EPRR arrangements
- Coordinate the design and development of constructive debriefs for major incidents, dissemination of lessons identified and recommendations for future best practice

**Person specification**:
A full list of duties and responsibilities can be found in the job description.

**Post Location**

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £30,473, UK Health Security Agency contributes £8,228 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- 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 behaviours, experience, ability, technical skills/qualifications, strengths and commitment to equality and diversity detailed in the essential person specification.

**Stage 2 - Interview**

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).-
- This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.- Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.**Contact point for applicants**:
Job contact:

- Name:
- Sue Silvester, Senior Emergency Preparedness Manager
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