Senior Emergency Preparedness Office - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - NHS Scotland

NHS Scotland

Verified Company

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

About the Organisation:

Public Health Scotland launched in April 2020 as a new organisation between the Scottish Government and Local Government, working in partnership, to provide leadership to improve and protect the health and wellbeing of the people of Scotland.

It provides authoritative information and services to support people and communities across Scotland, leads the national response to unforeseen health emergencies, and contributes to national and local government policy through its provision of robust data and intelligence.

The post:

The Clinical and Protecting Health Directorate are seeking to appoint Senior Emergency Preparedness Officers (two posts) within the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) team.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and support the development and delivery of emergency preparedness, resilience and response activities within and across a range of teams and disciplines in PHS which will also help to protect the population of Scotland.

The activities include service planning, training and exercising, resilience, incident response, development and implementation of policies, protocols, procedures and guidelines for emergency preparedness.

You will be part of a multidisciplinary team and will play a key role in the delivery of the Public Health Scotland's Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response.

You must have knowledge of emergency preparedness concepts and practice within relevant settings and recent practical experience in delivery of emergency preparedness and response.

You will work collaboratively within Public Health Scotland and with partners including NHS Boards, Local Authorities, Scottish Government and other UK National public health agencies.

Location and working pattern:

This role is based in Edinburgh / Glasgow.

37.5 hours per week and the opportunity to work flexibly 5 days over 7 as needed.

Due to our national response to the COVID-19 pandemic and other national Public Health Incidents there will be an expectation for weekend and/or out of hours working.

Salary placement will start at the bottom point of the scale unless individuals have previous NHS experience.

Benefits:

Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits.

Further information:

Public Health Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as such guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies