Overview
As the Senior Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery Officer you will work closely with the Civil Contingency Manager and be based in the new Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery team. You will liaise across all Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board activities to support the development, maintenance and review of the resilience management, strategic risk assessments, emergency planning protocols and corporate business continuity plans.
Key responsibilities
* Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery (EPRR) including training.
* Business continuity management planning.
* Pandemic response planning.
* Infectious disease outbreaks prevention and response planning.
* Local Authority engagement.
* Environmental health protection issues.
The successful candidate will also work with a range of organisations across South Wales reviewing and exercising multi agency business continuity and emergency plans. It is a diverse and exciting portfolio and if you can demonstrate experience and interest in Emergency Preparedness, Planning, Response and Recovery work to date, then please consider applying. The post will be based within one of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board offices, to be discussed at interview.
The post holder will contribute to the co-ordination and implementation of the UHB business continuity planning, and support operational directors with regard to development, review and exercising of business continuity and emergency plans, planning, implementation and evaluation of a range of health protection programmes and initiatives in line with agreed local and national needs and priorities, including emergency preparedness.
Specifically, the post holder will be responsible for working as part of the UHB's Emergency Planning and Business Continuity Team to fulfil its Civil Contingencies obligations in relation to the Civil Contingencies Act (2004).
Areas of work
* Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery (EPRR) including training.
* Business continuity management planning.
* Pandemic planning and response.
* Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear incidents response.
* Infectious disease outbreaks prevention and response.
* Antimicrobial Resistance.
* Local Authority engagement.
* Environmental health protection issues.
In the event of a significant Major Incident or Health Protection incident or outbreak, the post holder will be required to be flexible and assist in any Major Incident or health protection response as identified by the Civil Contingencies Manager/Assistant Director of Transformation.
About Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We live by our core values:
* We listen, learn and improve
* We treat everyone with respect
* We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
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