Emergency Preparedness Resilience & Response (EPRR) Manager - Band 8a

at  North Bristol NHS Trust

As a Category 1 responder, North Bristol NHS Trust must have arrangements in place for preparing for and responding to a wide range of incidents, whilst adhering to its duties under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
Reporting to the Trust Accountable Emergency Officer via the deputy chief operating officer, the post holder will lead and manage the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response function for North Bristol Trust (NBT) and will be the Trust’s single point of contact and expert on all matters relating to Emergency Preparedness.
The post holder will ensure the Trust is able to meet its statutory obligations under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004) and complies with all relevant EPRR guidance for the NHS, including guidance that accompanies the Civil Contingencies Act including business continuity and resilience preparedness.
You will also be responsible for risk assessing, planning and leading the development and implementation of all arrangements relating to NBT’s preparedness and resilience ability to respond to incidents and emergencies. Ensuring national and local standards are met including NHS EPRR Core Standards, NHSE EPRR minimum occupational standards and Care Quality Commission (CQC) Standards, and Collaboratively working to support the emergency preparedness of the local Health Community and other Local Resilience Forum (LRF) partners.
The EPRR Manager will also coordinate and deliver incident response and business continuity training Trust wide and to our operational on-call teams.
NBT Cares. It’s a very simple statement; one which epitomises how everybody across our organisation goes the extra mile to ensure our patients get the best possible care. NBT Cares is also an acronym, standing for caring, ambitious, respectful and supportive – our organisational values. And our NBT Cares values are underpinned by our positive behaviours framework – a framework that provides clear guidance on how colleagues can work with one another in a constructive and supportive way.

• Ensuring the Trust meets and maintains their statutory requirements, as a Category 1 Responder, under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
• The development, implementation, and maintenance of all necessary policies, plans and procedures for all aspects of contingency planning and emergency preparedness, including major incident, pandemic flu and business continuity arrangements, taking account of associated patient-care issues
• Ensure all personnel essential to the activation and discharge of contingency plans and obligations are fully trained and ready to respond as required, through the development and implementation of a comprehensive and effective training and exercise programme
• Advise and support the Trusts’ management arrangements in respect of contingency planning, including NBT’s Operational Management Board and the Trust’s EPRR Group.
• Ensure risk management arrangements take account of service continuity issues and that the Trusts’ contingency planning-related risks are adequately reflected in the Local Resilience Forum’s multi-agency Community Risk Register.
• Being an active participant in, and providing support to, the local Health community’s efforts in respect of their emergency preparedness, and work with the local and wider NHS community developing emergency preparedness resilience across the BNSSG and beyond.
• Identify, understand and quantify all requirements to satisfy the Trusts’ emergency preparedness obligations, particularly in respect of the Civil Contingencies Act and other relevant guidance and standards.
• Create an EP development plan incorporating all EP requirements and necessary links / co-ordination with neighbouring organisations
• Collaborate with commissioners at BNSSG Integrated Care Board, the Integrated care system, acute provider collaborative, NHS England, the wider health community, and other partner organisations. Agreeing and developing the levels of co-operation and coordination necessary to deliver robust and effective contingency arrangements within the Trust and externally, across the wider Local Resilience Forum (LRF) community
• Develop training and awareness programmes for staff who are involved in emergency preparedness and response.
• Organise sufficiently frequent EP exercises to ensure all involved receive effective practice and are confident about their particular roles in any contingency plan.
• Keep updated with Trust developments, service rationalisations, re-organisations, etc., in order to identify potential conflicts with, and / or ‘knock-on’ effects on, the Trust’s contingency arrangements.
• Analyse and report on service continuity-related failures in operational procedures and propose solutions / remedial action, as required.
• Provide regular and ad-hoc reports as required to keep the Trust board and management informed of key issues relating to resilience activities and their consequences