EPRR Support Officer

at  North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

The North East Ambulance Service (NHS) Trust would like to invite applications for an exciting opportunity based within the Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR) Department. Reporting to the EPRR Officer and working within the administrative support team, the EPRR Support Officer will be responsible for providing a range of administrative functions to the department The role will also provide support to the Business Continuity Manager.
The Support Officer team also provide support to training and exercising and HART (Hazardous Area Response Team) and so there will be opportunity to provide resilience to these workstreams in times of high demand or team absence. In the ever developing world of resilience, there will be opportunities to provide administrative support to ad-hoc projects and workstreams across the wider EPRR department.
For an informal discussion regarding the vacancy please contact Zoe Wilkinson, EPRR Officer on 07483972253 or zoe.armstrong@neas.nhs.uk.
Within this role, the successful candidate will provide administration support and assistance to the EPRR Department. This will include but is not limited to:
Taking meeting minutes/meeting secretariat responsibilities
Collating data for inclusion in reports
Support in producing various monthly reports
Updating and maintaining various records and systems
Monitoring the status of business continuity incidents
Support to winter planning workstreams
It is essential that candidates have significant relevant experience of providing an effective administration support service and can demonstrate high levels of attention to detail. The successful candidate must have proficient IT skills, with an excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office software and be able to adapt quickly to new software packages. Organisation and co-ordination skills are key to this role as you will be required to manage a number of tasks and processes which are key within NEAS governance arrangements, conducting prioritisation of activities on a regular basis.
We employ 3,500 staff in 63 locations and serve a population of 2,600,000 in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham, and Tees over 3230 square miles.
Many people think the job of the ambulance service is to collect patients and take them to hospital, but we do much more!
Paramedic skills have developed hugely in recent years, meaning we carry out more treatment at the scene and en-route to hospital.
We have a dedicated clinical assessment service that allows us to provide patients with the most appropriate care from the beginning of the patient journey.
We have a specialised branch of the Trust called HART which deal with explosions or terrorist attacks.
Ultimately patients are the heart of everything that we do to support our mission of “safe, effective and responsive care for all”.
We value and respect the diversity employees bring to our workplace. We recruit a workforce that reflects the community we serve, and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. To ensure we deliver on our aims in relation to diversity and inclusion we assess ourselves against a range of frameworks. We are ENEI Gold employer, Disability Confident Leader, Dyslexia Smart Award employer, Dementia Friendly, and part of Mind Blue Light programme and the Race at Work Charter from the Princes Responsible Business Network and are achieving across all objectives in NHS Equality Delivery System.
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