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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced emergency planner to join the small, specialised EPRR team. The successful candidate will report to the Strategic Head of EPRR and Counter Terrorism within the Chief Operating Officer's corporate team. The Team is responsible for the provision of professional and expert advice, guidance, information, building resilience through planning, training, exercising for and responding to a wide range of incidents and emergencies which could affect health or disrupt patient care.

Whilst the post holder will work in all areas of the Emergency Management Framework, working closely with the other EPRR officer, this role will predominantly focus on Business Continuity and Exercise delivery for the Trust. Business Continuity plans are reviewed annually. Exercises must be carried out at a minimum for each care group: live every 3 years, tabletop every year, and communications every 3 months.

We are looking for a passionate, experienced resilience professional with a can-do attitude and flexible approach to adapt to situations as they evolve and unfold. If this is you, we look forward to receiving your application.

Your primary base will be Duncan Macmillan House, Nottingham but you will be required to travel to other Trust hospitals, care centres and premises. There will also be a degree of flexibility in working from home arrangements.

Main duties of the job

• Lead on EPRR projects and activities including horizon scanning and hazard identification, risk assessment, emergency planning, delivering training and facilitating exercises.
• Design, develop and deliver a comprehensive specialist EPRR, business continuity and recovery training and exercise programme l through face-to-face training, e-learning, podcasts, presentations, workshops and organise conferences.
• Share in leading the delivery of EPRR training and exercising, with a specific responsibility of the full exercising cycle.
• Co-ordinate and report outcomes for review from any exercises, training events and internal emergency response arrangements.
• Develop and monitor performance indicators to analyse, measure and improve EPRR, providing regular written reports.
• Support administration during business continuity, critical or major incidents.
• Work flexibly to support emergency response activities including providing specialist Tactical advice / support.
• Support the EPRR hot and cold debriefing session, writing a report and identifying actions to be taken and lessons learned. 
• Review the response to EPRR incidents, assessing the adequacy of plans and making written recommendations for improvement.