Senior EPRR Programme Manager: Sponsorship Available

NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board

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.

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.

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: 27 September 2026

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