Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) Officer

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) Officer who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

Working closely with the Head of EPRR, you will help strengthen the Trust's ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies, major incidents, critical incidents, and business continuity disruptions. You will support the protection of patients, staff, services, systems and facilities, helping the Trust maintain safe and effective operations during challenging situations.

The role will also support the Trust in meeting its statutory responsibilities as a Category 1 Responder under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and maintaining compliance with NHS England's EPRR Framework and Core Standards.

This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in improving organisational resilience and supporting the continuity of essential services across the Trust.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will provide operational support during incidents and contribute to maintaining organisational resilience across the Trust. Alongside incident response responsibilities, the post holder will undertake a range of business as usual EPRR activities, including supporting emergency and business continuity planning, delivering training, facilitating exercises and maintaining relevant plans, procedures and records.

The role provides an excellent opportunity to broaden knowledge and gain further practical experience across emergency preparedness, resilience, incident response and business continuity.

The post holder will support the delivery and ongoing improvement of the Trust's Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response arrangements, helping to ensure compliance with national standards and statutory requirements.

They will play an important role in ensuring the Trust is prepared to respond effectively to emergencies, incidents and business disruption, while supporting the continuity of safe and essential services.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.