EPRR Support officer

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health authority in Wakefield seeks an administrative role supporting Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR). The candidate will manage scheduling, correspondence, and communication with external suppliers while ensuring internal colleagues are well-supported. The position offers a generous benefits package, including NHS pension, and promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace. Ideal for individuals valuing improvement and respect.

Benefits

NHS pension plan

27 days holiday plus bank holidays

Employee health and wellbeing services

Flexible working options

Career progression and training support

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day administrative duties for the EPRR.
• Act as the point of contact for external suppliers.
• Support internal colleagues with managing their plans.

Skills

Word processing or equivalent qualification

Multi-disciplinary team working

Administrative or secretarial experience

Advanced use of Microsoft Office

Good customer or patient care

Scheduling / coordination activities

Education

4 GCSEs grade C or above

IT qualifications e.g. ECDL

Job description

Contact information

Head of Resilience, Balvinder Singh Bains

[e-mail]

01924 541969

About the role

Under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, the Trust maintains the statutory duties of a Category 1 responder. This work is referred to in the Health community as Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response - EPRR.

The Office of EPRR maintains a strategic overview of resilience arrangements across the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, and has agency to support hospital functions with effective response to an incident.

This is a niche area, and the successful candidate will be supporting the Head of Resilience with complying with the EPRR Core Standards Framework and during live incidents.

Main duties

The post holder will be responsible for day-to-day administrational duties in the office for EPRR. This will include scheduling relevant governance and steering group meetings, supporting the Head of Resilience with arranging training and exercising, managing specialist resources such as the Incident Coordination Centre (ICC) and taking notes and replying to correspondence.

You will be for the point of contact for external suppliers of specialist equipment and managing the required preventative programme of maintenance (PPM) schedules for resources that are required in the event of an emergency.

You will be in daily contact with internal colleagues and senior executives from across the Trust, supporting them with managing their plans and procedures and ensuring stakeholders are kept informed of developments. The post holder will also be working with partners from across the Integrated Care System (ICS), local authorities and blue light (emergency) services.

Essential person specification requirements

Qualifications

• Word processing or equivalent qualification or experience
• Sound educational background (4 GCSE’s grade C or above)
• IT qualifications e.g. ECDL or equivalent

Experience

• Experience and knowledge of multi-disciplinary team working
• Administrative or secretarial experience
• Experience of working with IT systems
• Experience of good customer or patient care
• Advanced use of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint), MS Teams, e-mail and internet
• Experience of scheduling / co-ordination activities and / or resources

Be part of MY team

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Application guidance :

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Our benefits

• Access to the NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
• Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
• Extensive benefits and support, including :
• Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Home electronics scheme
• Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
• Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
• Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
• Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
• Career progression, training and support

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