Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Lead

NHS Jobs; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU) is seeking an Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Lead to provide subject matter leadership across the Acute organisation. The role ensures statutory compliance with the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and NHS EPRR Core Standards, and delivers the Trust EPRR programme in partnership with the Isle of Wight NHS Trust.

The postholder will manage the Business Continuity Programme, act as a senior EPRR expert during incidents, support the

Qualifications

• Experience in Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) leadership and governance.
• Strong ability to interpret and implement national EPRR policy locally.
• Excellent risk assessment, incident support and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a specialist team delivering EPRR resilience improvements for PHU.
• Provide senior incident support and preparedness assurance to key decision-makers.
• Ensure compliance with statutory obligations and NHS planning requirements.
• Coordinate with multi-agency partners and Local Resilience Forum stakeholders.
• Oversee business continuity plans, testing, lessons learned and continuous improvement.
• Produce formal EPRR documentation including policies, risk assessments and reports.

Job description

Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Lead

Main duties of the job The EPRR Lead for Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU) provides subject matter leadership across the Acute organisation to ensure statutory compliance with the Civil Contingencies Act (2004) and NHS EPRR Core Standards requirements. The role will provide leadership to the design and delivery of the Trust EPRR 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. The role will oversee the management of the Business Continuity Programme by the Trust BC Lead and Divisional Business Continuity Leads, ensuring plans are current, tested and aligned to ISO22301 standards. The postholder acts as a senior subject matter expert, provides strategic advice during incidents, supports the on-call framework, and deputises for the Group Lead for Resilience when required. The role will coordinate with Category 1 and 2 partners and other agencies across the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Local Resilience Forum, and within the health sector including the Integrated Care Board and NHS England; ensuring integrated planning, risk management and effective incident response. The post holder operates as the senior EPRR subject matter expert within the organisation, working alongside and to the Group Head of Resilience, and is responsible for interpreting and implementing national EPRR policy and determining how these are locally applied in practice. Key Responsibilities Lead a specialist team in driving forward an ambitious programme of delivery of ever-improving standards of resilience against disruption at PHU. Provide senior incident support and preparedness assurance to key decision-makers for the organisation Using risk assessment skills, the post holder will be required to provide evidence-based recommendations to senior leaders to inform strategic decision-making and risk management Ensure alignment with statutory obligations, NHS planning requirements and system objectives. Working with a wide range of multi-agency partners communicating at all levels. Contribute effectively to collaborative working across providers, LRF partners, LHRP and beyond teams to ensure consistent organisational preparedness. Support clinical and operational partners to embed resilience, learning and risk mitigation in frontline service delivery. Support long-term strategic planning and delivery of programme workstreams including planning, training, exercising and business continuity, ensuring arrangements are forward-looking and aligned to emerging risks and national priorities. Analyse highly complex information from a wide range of partners and ensure it is communicated appropriately to a wide range of stakeholders. Ensure systems for lessons learned, debrief, assurance and improvement are embedded and reported. Produce formal EPRR documentation including compliance of core standards, plans, policies, risk assessments, performance reports and briefing papers. Analyse and present information to inform strategic decisions and escalation. Manage allocated programme budgets and ensure compliant, value-for-money delivery. Contribute to business cases, procurement decisions and joint funding bids. Line-manage and develop members of the EPRR team, supporting capability, performance and professional standards. Promote a collaborative, improvement-focused culture and transfer specialist knowledge across teams. Review interpret and update plans, policies and procedures to reflect national policy, good practice and lessons identified, acting as the senior professional lead for EPRR within the organisation. Undertake audit, benchmarking and evaluation to support continual improvement and system learning. For full job details and person specification please refer to enclosed Job description