Planning Manager - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Description

The role of the Emergency Planning and Resilience Manager is to ensure that the Trust maintains its readiness to respond to unexpected events and emergencies, is building resilience to potential hazards, and is permanentlyin a fit state to deliver a response to internal or external incidents through either a direct response (delivery of care to casualties, or enacting business continuity plans) or provision of support to other organisations (mutual aid).

The EPRR Manager is responsible for the management, production, implementation and regularrevision of effective:o major and critical incident planso resilience strategies and planso business continuity planso exercise and training planso threat and hazard identification and response processes

o To manage the exercising and testing of Local Incident Response planso To develop and deliver the training of key staff in respect of the above Response plans.

To be a proactive member of the Trust's EPRR Working Groupo To participate in regular external multi-agency networking within the local health economyand local resilience community, as the Trust representative
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK.

Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families.

Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work.

Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Birmingham Women's and Childrens Hospital is seeking a dynamic leader to join our operations team.

The post holder must have a strong understanding of this guidance and respond to any new and changing local, national, and statutory guidance in this field, ensuring that this is reflected in the training and internal guidelines.

The role will incorporate the development and deployment for all EPRR training and update of the on-call teams at all levels of the organisation.

The role will also lead the development and maintenance of Business Continuity Plans and their compliance with standard ISO 22301 and ISO 22313 across the Trust and will participate in the response plans of the Integrated Care System.

The post holder will also be responsible for reviewing any incidents and training exercises and ensuring that any lessons learnt are acted upon and included in any guidelines, training and plans moving forward.

As this is a senior role at AFC Band 8B, the banding reflects the nature and breadth of skills required for leading EPPR and compliance with Civil Contingencies Act in a complex and diverse specialist Trust.

Please refer to the Trust website for further information about the organisation and for further and detailed information about the post please contact Scott Hancock

Emergency Planning Experience
curent Emergency Planning Role in Healthcare
Diploma in Health Emergency Planning (DipHEP) or PGCert in Emergency Planning or equivalent or willing to undertake such a qualification
Knowledge, understanding and experience in Risk Management and Governance issues
Experience of developing business continuity plans
Experience gained of an incident response whether an actual incident or through training
Experience of formal reporting to Senior Management / Board through a variety of media / modes of communication

Project management experience
Knowledge of the NHS in the context of emergency planning

Ability to interpret national policy and guidance and turn into practical local actions required
Ability to identify proportionate actions in addressing hazards and risks, and organizational planning responses

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