Emergency & Resilience Manager

Queensland Health; Ipswich City; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Flexible work options

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

West Moreton Health is seeking a senior leader to shape emergency management and organisational resilience across the region. You will advise, lead, and coordinate to ensure preparedness for emergencies and minimise business interruption.

In this permanent full-time role, you will develop the emergency management framework, lead training and exercises, and drive continuous improvement across clinical services and facilities in line with Queensland Health protocols.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge in emergency preparedness and fire safety with planning experience.
• High-level skills in assessment, investigations, analysis, and reporting with follow-up.
• Strong knowledge of Queensland Health systems and emergency planning practices.
• Financial management skills to forecast and monitor revenue and expenditure.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior leadership for emergency management and business continuity framework development.
• Offer framework expertise to clinical service areas for business continuity plans.
• Lead training and exercises to test preparedness and report outcomes to management.
• Coordinate fire safety monitoring and strategies across all facilities.

Skills

Emergency management

Leadership

Financial management

Change management

Risk assessment

Job description

Take the lead in shaping emergency and organisational resilience across West Moreton Health!

The purpose of this role is to provide advice, leadership, management, and coordination to ensure West Moreton Health appropriately identifies and manages organisational risk relating to emergency events, impacts, and to lead West Moreton Health’s emergency management and business continuity program. This will ensure that West Moreton Health is adequately prepared for emergency situations and the risk of business interruption relating to both planned emergency events.

Permanent Full-time opportunity!

About West Moreton Health

West Moreton Health is one of Queensland's most diverse and rapidly evolving health services, delivering health care to over 300,000 people across Ipswich, Boonah, Gatton, Laidley, and Esk.

We provide preventative and primary healthcare services, ambulatory services, acute care, sub-acutecare, oral health, mental health and other specialised services, including prison and youth detention health services,and alcohol and other drugs services to the region.

At West Moreton Health, our employees apply our shared values to every aspect of their work. This helps make sure our workplaces are effective, inclusive and empower our employees to reach our goals.

As a Child Safe Organisation, at West Moreton Health:

• We prioritise children and young people being seen, heard, and safe in every interaction.
• We create inclusive environments where the voices and needs of children and young people are valued and respected.
• We believe safeguarding is shared responsibility, upheld by every member of our organisation.

What it's like to work with us | West Moreton Health

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Provide senior level leadership for emergency management and business continuity specifically in developing and implementing the emergency management framework and business continuity planning.
• Provide emergency management and business continuity framework expertise to all West Moreton Health clinical service areas to enable the development of business continuity plans as required.
• Lead, coordinate and manage training and exercises to test emergency preparedness, business continuity plans adequacy, and report outcomes to management.
• Coordinate, monitor and evaluate fire services and develop strategies to ensure fire safety compliance to support the safety of patients, visitors, staff and physical assets across all West Moreton Health facilities.

What we're looking for

Our ideal candidate will be someone who can demonstrate the following:

• Extensive knowledge in emergency preparedness, fire safety and related issues, able to develop plans and projects for implementation.
• High level skills in conducting assessment, reviews, investigations, analysis and self-inspections recommending corrective actions, communicating results, compiling reports and ensuring follow up on issues or concerns until completion
• Comprehensive and applied knowledge (or ability to rapidly acquire) of Queensland Health business systems, emergency management response arrangements and emergency management planning practices.
• Financial management skills, including the ability to develop, interpret, monitor and analyse trend data in organisational financial and business reports, forecast, monitor and manage revenue and expenditure.
• Well-developed leadership and management skills including demonstrated capacity to create and maintain high performing teams and demonstrated ability to manage change and innovation in business services.

Mandatory Requirements

• Vaccinated against, and remain vaccinated against, certain vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) as outlined in the Health Employment Directive NO. 01/16

Why choose us

• Purposeful work that makes a meaningful impact.
• Career pathways with support to step into senior roles and leadership.
• Wellbeing supports including peer networks, flexible work options, EAP and dedicated mental health programs.
• Competitive benefits including salary packaging and up to 12.75% super.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply for all West Moreton Health vacancies.