Business Continuity Lead

The Trust; Portsmouth; Presencial; GBP 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The Trust is seeking a strategic leader to design and deliver the Business Continuity (BC) programme in partnership with the Isle of Wight NHS Trust, within the Group structure. The post holder will take ownership of ensuring organisational compliance, assurance, programme delivery and continuous improvement of the BC programme.

They will drive local BC plans to be current, tested and aligned to ISO22301 standards, working with clinical and operational partners to embed resilience and learning

Responsabilidades

• Provide incident support and preparedness assurance to the EPRR Lead and the Group Head of Resilience.
• Lead and participate in cross-organisational collaboration to champion business continuity across the health system.
• Review and update BC plans and policies to reflect national policy and lessons learned from disruption events.
• Support planning, training and exercising to ensure forward-looking arrangements aligned to national priorities.

Descripción del empleo

The role will provide leadership to the design and delivery of the Trust BC programme, aligned with partners at the Isle of Wight NHS Trust, within the overall Group structure. They will take ownership in ensuring organisational compliance, assurance, programme delivery, and continuous improvement of the BC programme, ensuring local plans are owned, current, tested and aligned to ISO22301 standards. Key Responsibilities Working within a specialist team in driving forward an ambitious programme of delivery of ever-improving standards of resilience against disruption at PHU. Provide incident support and preparedness assurance to the EPRR Lead, the Group Head of Resilience, and more broadly to key decision-makers for the organisation Ensure alignment with statutory obligations, NHS planning requirements and system objectives. Working with a wide range of organisational partners to champion and embed Business Continuity at all levels. Contribute effectively to collaborative working across
heath sector providers and other partners, to ensure consistent organisational preparedness. Support clinical and operational partners to embed resilience, learning and risk mitigation in frontline service delivery. Support the EPRR teams long-term strategic planning and delivery of BC programme workstreams through supported delivery of planning, training and exercising, ensuring arrangements are forward-looking and aligned to emerging risks and national priorities. Ensure systems for lessons learned, debrief, assurance and improvement following Business Continuity disruption are embedded and reported. Support the production of formal EPRR documentation including compliance of core standards, plans, policies, risk assessments, performance reports and briefing papers. Contribute to management of allocated programme budgets, business cases and procurement decisions to ensure compliant, value-for-money delivery. Promote a collaborative, improvement-focused culture and transfer specialist
knowledge across teams. Review, interpret and update BC plans, policies and procedures to reflect national policy, good practice and lessons identified, acting as the professional lead for BC within the organisation. Undertake audit, benchmarking and evaluation to support continual improvement and system learning. For full job details and person specifications please refer to enclosed Job description