EPRR Manager

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

Flexible working patterns

Training & development opportunities

Career progression

Job summary

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is seeking an EPRR Manager in Nottingham. The role covers planning, developing, and maintaining EPRR, acting as expert advisor on EPRR, and ensuring core standards are met.

The post requires experience in emergency management and business continuity, plus ability to work with multi‑agency partners and provide NILO support as needed.

Qualifications

• Educated to a Degree level or equivalent experience.
• Willing to undertake training to become a NILO.
• Diploma in Health Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (desirable).
• Experience of CBRN and other specialised ambulance working or activities.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, implement, test and evaluate Emergency plans for EMAS.
• Assess risks of events and contribute to licensing where appropriate.
• Liaise with Safety Advisory Groups and multi‑agency partners.

Skills

Emergency management

NILO training

CBRN experience

Leadership

Education

Degree level

Tools

Microsoft 365

Job description

Main area Emergency, Preparedness, Resilience and Response Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (+ On Call) Job ref 335-A-2090

Site Nottingham Divisional Headquarters Town Beechdale Salary £49,387 - £56,515 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 04/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 08/10/2026

We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.

The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).

Job overview

EMAS is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for the posts of ‘EPRR Manager’. The role is diverse, complex, and challenging, that includes a mixture of planning and organising, developing and maintaining close working relationships both internally and externally, together with fulfilling the role of expert advisor on all aspects of EPRR.

The successful candidate will have experience within the field of emergency management and business continuity and be instrumental in delivering the EPRR core standards.

This role is suitable for applicants who have the essential skills detailed with the job description. The position will have full leadership and development support from the Head of EPRR, notwithstanding the autonomy expected and afforded to the role.

Main duties of the job

Ensuring the East Midlands Ambulance Service can effectively manage “an event or situation which threatens serious damage to human welfare in a place in the UK, or war or terrorism which threatens serious damage to the security of the UK” as stated in the Civil Contingencies Act.

To ensure the Trust is compliant with all applicable EPRR doctrine and contractual standards and can evidence this through robust governance procedures.

To fulfill the role of expert advisor for the Trust in all aspects of EPRR including CBRN preparedness and response as part of the EPRR Team.

To prepare, develop, test, and evaluate plans for specific threats and events as identified by the Trust or local community risk registers

To actively participate in multi-agency forums to ensure that there are robust arrangements in place that enable the efficient and effective ambulance service response in the event of a specialist or major incident, including event planning.

To provide, as required, appropriate assistance and specialist NILO advice to commanders at Operational, Tactical, and Strategic command levels.

To remain up to date with local, regional, and national civil contingencies issues and developing strategies and to research and make recommendations to develop or adapt policy or practice as required to the Head of EPRR.

Assist in the planning, delivery and debriefing of internal and multi-agency training, exercises, and awareness sessions for supporting the EPRR activities.

Working for our organisation

Working for us not only provides job satisfaction of knowing that what you do makes a real difference to our patients, but we offer a range of other great benefits too:

• Flexible approach to working patterns, we understand the importance of a work life balance and have a wide selection of rotas for part-time and full-time staff
• Holiday entitlement of 27 days rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years, plus public bank holiday entitlement (pro rata for part time).
• Pay enhancements for out of hours, shift and overtime working, career and salary progression and annual personal development review.
• Uniform will be provided where this is a requirement of the role
• Expert training and support from our dedicated in-house education team.
• Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme.
• Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme
• NHS Discounts in over 200+ stores including Holidays, Days out, Car insurance, Restaurants and Clothing.
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes and cycle to work.
• An exceptional place to work to provide with high-quality emergency care to save lives and make a difference to people
• A first-class employer, promoting equality, diversity and inclusion of our employees. We are a Rainbow Accredited organisation, and a Veteran Aware and Disability Confident employer.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role is extremely variable and good time management and organisation skills are essential.

To prepare, implement, test, and evaluate the Emergency plans for East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

To assess the risks associated with public events occurring within or impacting upon the Trust area and to contribute to the licensing arrangements where appropriate. Evaluate and plan for any special medical arrangements required, including liaison with the Safety Advisory Groups.

Ensuring that the Trust Major Incident Plan and other key plans are compatible with other health and Emergency service plans and meets the statutory requirements of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.

To plan and co-ordinate multi-agency exercises to enable the Trust to test its emergency plans and associated procedures.

Ensure as far as is reasonably practical the competence of the Trust staff and managers to deal effectively with emergency incidents.

Support the Trust preparedness for responding to, and mitigating the effects of and Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear (CBRN) or Hazardous Materials (Hazmat) incident.

Ensure the Trusts capacity and preparedness to deal with High Consequence Infectious Disease and Pandemics.

In liaison with the Trust Business Continuity Manager, contribute to the Trust Business Continuity delivery within divisions.

Produce, update, and liaise with partner agencies on site-specific plans in accordance with national and statutory requirements.

Represent the Trust at multi-agency EPRR meetings as required.

Prepare and propose updates to any Trust plan to ensure the Trust remains compliant with relevant legislation and EPRR best practice.

Participate in the EPRR NILO on-call rota to provide specialist support and advice to incident commanders in the event of major or specialist incidents.

Produce and update site specific plans in line withControl of Industrial Major Accident Hazards (CIMAH) and Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) regulations.

Liaise with divisional operational management teams on all EPRR related matters

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to a Degree level or equivalent experience
• Qualified / willing to undertake training to become a NILO.
• Qualified / willing to undertake Diploma in Health Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response
• Experience of CBRN and other specialised ambulance working or activities.

Experience

• Experience of preparing and writing reports
• Thorough knowledge of current best practice and emerging threats including standards such as ISO 22301
• Experience of working within an EOC environment
• Experience of working under pressure
• Proven experience in dealing with complex issues
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment
• Experience of presenting to multi-disciplinary audiences
• Experience of development and management of Service Level Agreements including methods and techniques for reporting and managing progress against plan
• 2 years of operational (or equivalent) command experience

Knowledge

• High level of interpersonal skills including the ability to influence, support, develop and appraise staff
• Knowledge of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
• Effective problem solving and decision-making
• High level of analytical skills
• Information technology competent (Microsoft 365 suite)
• Ability to work to deadlines without compromising standards of performance.
• Significant experience of negotiation, innovation, and leadership.
• Ability to understand and apply a range of leadership skills appropriate to individual situations.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills.
• Knowledge of People policies and procedures.

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Accessibility

If you have any accessibility requirements at any point during the recruitment process, then please contact the recruiting manager.

If you haven’t heard back from us within eight weeks of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.

Due to the high volume of applications received we are unable to provide updates on the progress of applications and only successful candidates at shortlisting stage will be contacted, regrettably feedback will not be provided. If you are unsuccessful at this stage please refer back to the job description, person specification and advertised requirements for ways to improve your future applications.

Internal candidates applying for vacancies must have completed their probationary period (stated within your contract) at point of application.

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer,committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We actively encourage interest from across our diverse communities. Black and Minority Ethnic staff are currently under-represented within our workforce, and we welcome applications from within these communities.

We are keen to promote a positive work-life balance. We recognise the importance of being able to spend quality time with family and friends and to engage in your own personal interests outside of work, which alongside work helps us to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. We are committed to embedding the NHS People Promise to support colleagues to work flexibly in a way that works for our patients, for us and for you. Many of our staff already work flexibly in many different ways, including job share, part-time or other flexible working patterns. Please talk openly to us at interview about flexible working opportunities. In addition, if a role is advertised as home based, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations, so please talk to us about the options available to you. If it works for our service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

At EMAS we believe that our culture should be built upon our core values and that our behaviour should reflect these. Our values – respect, integrity, contribution, teamwork and compassion - underpin everything we do – how we deliver our services and how we work with each other. We believe that it’s our people who make EMAS what it is.

Our Vision -Respondingto patient needs in the right way,developingour organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, andcollaboratingto improve wider healthcare.

Please note we reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy if an internal member of staff on our redeployment register expresses an interest and is successful for this vacancy, or if a sufficient number of applications is received.

Please be aware if you are applying for a Frontline role, an Enhanced DBS clearance check will be required, and depending on the nature of other non-patient facing roles this check may also be required if offered a position with EMAS (Al l spent and unspent convictions must declared).

If you are not part of the update service, you will be liable for the payment and this will be deducted from your first months’ salary. The current cost of an enhanced DBS check is £55.38.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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