About this role
Job summary
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed by the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Southeast Integrated Care Boards; and current at-risk employees within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts.
Senior leadership and strategic oversight of the ICB's EPRR arrangements, ensuring statutory compliance, trust assurance and continuous improvement; leading the EPRR team; providing senior EPRR advice during incidents; representing the ICB within LRF, LHRP and regional structures; and deputising for the Deputy Director as required.
Main duties of the job
The Senior EPRR Programme Manager provides senior leadership across the Integrated Care Board to ensure statutory compliance with the Civil Contingencies Act (2004) and NHS Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response requirements. The role will provide leadership to all the defined elements of the ICB and wider system EPRR programme, ensuring compliance, assurance, programme delivery, and continuous improvement in preparedness and response. The postholder acts as a senior subject matter expert, provides strategic advice during incidents, supports the on-callframework, and deputises for the Deputy Director when required. Working through a matrix model, the role manages resilience capability across NHS providers, Local Resilience Forum partners including local authorities, emergency services, voluntary partners and national bodies, ensuring integrated planning, risk management and effective incident response. The postholder operates with a high degree of autonomy as a senior EPRR subject matter expert within the function, responsible for interpreting and implementing national EPRR policy across the ICB and wider system, and determining how these are applied in practice. The postholder will provide team resilience across the System Resilience and EPRR function, and participate in an Subject Matter Expert on call rota.
About us
We are committed to a culture that supports all staff at NHS Kent and Medway to be the best version of themselves.
Our ability to improve outcomes for our population depends on how effectively clinical, operational, financial and strategic professionals work together to make informed commissioning decisions. That's why our workforce works a minimum of two days-a-week on-site, with the expectation that all one-to-ones are held face-to-face and that colleagues will regularly visit the services we are commissioning to understand more about them.
We believe regular on-site working supports stronger collaboration, faster problem-solving, peer learning, visible leadership and the integration of colleagues into our organisation. We also know that culture is built through shared experiences and day-to-day interactions.
We are a flexible working friendly organisation; we aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.
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Person Specification
Qualifications and/ or experience Essential
Educated to masters level or able to demonstrate significant specialist knowledge acquired through substantial senior leadership experience in emergency planning
Qualifications and/ or experience Essential
Highly developed knowledge of EPRR, business continuity, incident response and NHS EPRR assurance frameworks developed through substantial exposure in NHS and multi-agency environments.
Skills and abilities Essential
Able to design, deliver and evaluate large-scale multi-agency training and exercising programmes.
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.
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Employer details Employer name NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
Address Gail House
Maidstone
ME15 6NB
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.kentandmedway.icb.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)