Band 8a Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Manager - Bath
Employer:
NHS Jobs
Location:
Bath, BA1 3QE
Pay:
£55,690.00 to £62,682.00 per year, £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year
Contract Type:
Permanent
Hours:
Full time
Disability Confident:
No
Closing Date:
01/02/2026
About this job
Provide strategic leadership in the area of resilience and ensure the identification and management of all the organisations obligations and requirements for resilience under the Civil Contingencies Act and Department of Health guidance.
Act as the first point of contact for all matters concerning resilience for Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.
Act as a subject matter expert and source of resilience expertise for the whole organisation, providing professional leadership to ensure that services meet the needs of all directorates and departments, the Executive Team, and the Board.
Drive forward the Trusts agenda regarding resilience, ensuring compliance with the NHS England Core Standards for EPRR. Act autonomously in interpreting policy and strategy and set the goals and standards to be achieved by the Trust.
Undertake a sustained campaign to raise the profile and awareness of resilience across the Trust.
Be responsible for the development and implementation of all EPRR-related policies across the Trust at strategic, tactical, and operational levels, such as flu pandemic, fuel restrictions, flooding, gridlock, heatwave, etc.
Ensure that managers at all levels understand the importance of effective planning for resilience, are supported to develop and update these plans, and that they are robustly tested.
Prepare, develop, review, and keep updated the AWP Major Incident and Business Continuity Plans in line with the Civil Contingencies Act and NHS Emergency Planning Guidance.
Ensure these plans continue to meet statutory and non-statutory requirements and best practice guidance in the context of changing legislation and other requirements.
Incorporate lessons learned from major incident/business continuity events into new or existing plans.
Understand the principles of a risk-based approach towards resilience and preparedness, including the application of dynamic risk assessment and the use of Decision-Making Models to support these processes.
Coordinate the business of the Trust Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Group and provide advice and/or regular reports and updates to the Board and relevant sub-committees.
Develop consultative and collaborative partnership arrangements with local Acute Trusts, Integrated Care Boards, Local Authorities, Emergency Services, and other partner organisations to ensure coordination of respective Major Incident and Business Continuity Plans.
Represent and promote the Trusts interests through participation in appropriate emergency planning and business continuity exercises, seminars, workshops, forums, and conferences, and at meetings with senior officers of other NHS bodies, public authorities, agencies, and organisations as required.
Develop and maintain a system for identifying and assessing risks to the Trust associated with business continuity, emergency planning resilience, health protection, and public health, ensuring inclusion on the Trust Risk Register with recommendations for improvement.
Ensure that there are appropriate and accessible systems for recording incidents and associated actions, that these systems are robust, meet the organisations specifications, and can produce the required standards of reporting.
Ensure that staff are trained to use the relevant systems for recording and updating incidents.
Be available to support senior management, including providing a tactical response on a best-endeavour basis during significant incidents and emergencies during working hours, and work flexibly in the event of an out-of-hours incident.
Develop the capability and capacity of AWP by designing, preparing, and facilitating appropriate exercises to test AWPs Major Incident and Business Continuity Plans with the AWP Executive Team, senior managers, and other staff at all levels.
Please see the attached job description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
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