Emergency Planning Advisor - Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom - Environment Agency

Environment Agency

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Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Number of jobs available- - Region- London, South East

City/Town
Welwyn Garden City

Building/Site

Alchemy, Bessemer Road, AL7 1HE

Grade

Staff Grade
Post Type
Permanent

Working Pattern

Full Time, Part Time

Role Type

Education and Training, Environment & Sustainability, Operational Delivery, Risk Management, Geography

Salary Minimum £37,46

Job description
We are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic emergency planner to help us develop the Environment Agency's incident management service in Hertfordshire and North London.

Working collaboratively with colleagues in area teams, local and national networks you will:

Provide expertise in emergency planning from within our Area Incident Team, supporting all aspects of incident planning, preparation, and response
Coordinate and participate in our multiagency work with external partners through Local and Borough Resilience Forums
Support business continuity planning for the Hertfordshire and North London Area
Advise on the development of multifunctional strategic and tactical plans
Deliver improvements to our incident response and preparation, ensuring lessons are learned and acted on from previous incidents
Support the training of our strategic and tactical incident response roles
Assist the team to carry out its wider functions including reviewing existing and emerging risks, training and exercising

Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do.

You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents, or provide business continuity support during an incident.

This may attract an additional payment and full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.

During office hours you will contribute to leading the initial tactical response to emerging incidents.

The team
Experience/skills required
You will have:
Practical experience of emergency planning and responding to incidents
Effective written and verbal communication skills
Engagement and networking skills demonstrating the ability to influence and collaborate with others to achieve shared outcomes
Confidence working on your own and as part of team with a commitment to continuous improvement, including supporting the development of others
The ability to lead and support working/task groups and organise/facilitate effective meetings
Resilience and adaptability under pressure, with the ability to prioritise and make riskbased decisions in challenging circumstances
A commitment to a culture that promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion; health safety and wellbeing, and to tackling the impacts of the climate and ecological emergency through your work
Contact and additional informationYou will be based from our Welwyn Garden City office. There will be an expectation of regular travel to the office as well as the flexibility to work from home as part of any future hybridworking patterns.