About this role
Job summary
Working within the Operations portfolio and reporting to the Head of EPRR, the EPRR Manager provides specialist operational leadership to ensure that the Trust can prepare for, respond to and recover from incidents.
Working as part of the EPRR team, the post holder will support the Trusts in delivering their statutory duties as Category 1 Responders under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, the NHS England EPRR Core Standards, and the Health and Care Act 2022.
The role involves the development, implementation, and maintenance of comprehensive incident response and business continuity arrangements, ensuring the Trusts are prepared for and resilient to major incidents, critical incidents, and business continuity disruptions.
The post-holder will engage proactively with Divisions, Estates, Security, ICT/Telecoms, Governance & Risk, to develop and test integrated arrangements. Represent the trust at Local Resilience Forum and Local Health Resilience Partnership meetings where appropriate and deputise for the Head of EPRR, promoting multi-agency partnership and advocating for acute health requirements.
The post-holder will provide specialist advice to managers and on-call teams during incidents and exercises, staff the Incident Coordination Centre (ICC) and maintain its readiness; deputise for the Head of EPRR when delegated.
Main duties of the job
Lead defined areas of the EPRR and business continuity work programme to ensure the Trusts, as Category 1 Responders, meet their statutory duties under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, the NHS England Core Standards for EPRR, and the Health and Care Act 2022, maintaining current expert knowledge of relevant legislation, national guidance, and policy.
Provide specialist advice and support to the Trusts' staff on all aspects of emergency preparedness, resilience, response, and business continuity, exercising independent professional judgement.
Develop and maintain the Trusts' suite of business continuity plans, ensuring they are validated, tested, and reviewed following training, exercising, and incidents, and as part of the cyclical review schedule, and that mitigating arrangements identified through risk assessment are in place.
Development and implementation of strategic and operational plans, policy and procedure.
About us
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people - patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing 'outstanding' care to our patients and rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH's values - Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent - are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
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Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment or fixed term contract. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position.
As per Home Office guidelines, please be aware that, unfortunately, the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular position.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 26th July 2026.
Interviews are due to be held on 12th August 2026.
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
oRelevant Degree or equivalent experience oRecognised Teaching Qualification (GIC, PGCert, Level 3 award in training and education etc) oRegistration with relevant professional body (BCI, EPS etc) oProfessional Qualification eg Health Emergency Planning (HEP) Certificate/Award (or working towards HEP Diploma)
Desirable
oJESIP Commander or equivalent course qualification oHMIMMS Qualification/Instructor oPrinciples in Health Command oClinical Registration and/or clinical experience in an acute or emergency care environment
Experience Essential
oPrevious emergency planning and business continuity experience oExperience developing, organising and delivering training packages/exercises to a wide variety of staff oExperience in the production of reports, documents and presentations oExperience of tracking activity and maintaining records to comply with governance requirements.
Desirable
oUnderstanding of the local resilience forums, how health interacts with this and a good understanding of the NHS environment and roles and responsibilities within it oExperience of participating in live incident response or major incident management oExperience within specialist key areas oie knowledge of quaternary care health emergency planning
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details Employer name Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address Addenbrookes Hospital-Division Corporate
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 0QQ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.cuh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)