MRP - EPRR Manager

NHS England; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS England seeks an experienced EPRR Manager to help deliver emergency preparedness, resilience and response across the East of England, liaising with partners and acting as a duty tactical advisor to support multi-agency continuity.

The role involves guiding strategic EPRR initiatives, managing projects, and ensuring robust contingency plans while aligning with national policy and regulations; presence in NHS offices is expected.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver EPRR programmes, projects and strategic initiatives, managing defined elements of the EPRR work programme and portfolio, leading key initiatives, monitoring delivery against plans and milestones, contributing to strategic planning, identifying interdependencies across the region, and ensuring appropriate contingencies are in place to support organisational resilience.

Job description

As an EPRR Manager the postholder will work as part of a team in delivering an effective EPRR service across the East of England. This role will support the service in selected geographical localities liaising closely with partners, acting as duty tactical advisor and managing EPRR projects as required.

• Lead and deliver EPRR programmes, projects and strategic initiatives, managing defined elements of the EPRR work programme and portfolio, leading key initiatives, monitoring delivery against plans and milestones, contributing to strategic planning, identifying interdependencies across the region, and ensuring appropriate contingencies are in place to support organisational resilience.
• Provide expert EPRR advice, guidance and system coordination, maintaining knowledge of national EPRR policy developments and their impact on health and care services, patients and the public, while coordinating, supporting and advising systems and partner organisations on emergency planning, business continuity, resilience, training, exercising and assurance activities to promote an integrated multi-agency approach.
• Deliver strategic, operational and tactical incident management support, providing specialist EPRR expertise on emergency preparedness and resilience matters, undertaking the role of Tactical Advisor during EPRR or UEC Operations incidents, ensuring incidents, operations, events and business continuity responses are managed effectively in line with legislation, guidance and best practice, and coordinating the response to emerging or actual incidents

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.