EPRR Manager

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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.

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).

Closing Date: 25 August 2026

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