Emergency Planning Officer

1 week ago

Alconbury, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire County Council Full time

About the role
In this Emergency Planning Officer role you will join a small corporate team planning and preparing to ensure that the County Council can respond effectively to major emergencies and business disruptions, and effectively discharge it's responsibilities within the Civil Contingencies Act. You will work with a range of partners to plan, prepare and practice our response arrangements.

In the event of an incident occurring you will play a vital role, responding to the event, supporting the management of the response, end enabling the recovery and restoration following on.

**For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact**

**Stewart Thomas - Head of Emergency Planning**

What will you be doing?
As an Emergency Planning Officer you will be
- designing and managing planning, training and exercise schedules which enhance our emergency and business continuity readiness
- working with partners to ensure a common strategy
- participating in our 24/7 emergency operational rota
- organising and delivering debriefs and reviews following incidents
- striving to improve our readiness in light of the risks that we have identifies

About you
To fit this role you will
- be keen to contribute and support the operation of a small team
- be confident and happy to show initiative
- be flexible and innovative in order to make the most of the resources available in fast changing circumstances
- be happy to work under pressure at all times of the day or night
- enjoy working with a vast array of partners in unconventional and challenging circumstances

About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme

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