Emergency Planning Officer | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

There is an exciting opportunity to join the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience, and Response (EPRR) Team at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) as an Emergency Planning Officer. We are looking for someone with a keen interest in Business Continuity to join our small but dynamic team. As an Emergency Planning Officer you will work with the EPRR Team to deliver an effective EPRR and Business Continuity service, supporting internal and external stakeholders to ensure a robust and resilient NHS response to any incident or disruptive event. Reporting to the EPRR Manager, as an Emergency Planning Officer, you will:

• Contribute to the Trusts EPRR and Business Continuity work programmes to ensure the Trust complies with statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Provide a source of EPRR and Business Continuity expertise to the Trust in conjunction with the EPRR Team.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of EPRR arrangements relating to Business Continuity, Critical and Major Incidents.
• Contribute to the review of Emergency and Business Continuity Plans for the Trust to ensure robust arrangements that are reflective of the Trusts capabilities.
• Support the implementation of the Trusts Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) in conjunction with the EPRR Manager and Divisional Business Continuity Leads.
• Contribute to multi-agency Emergency Planning through the Local Resilience Forum (LRF) and the Local Health Resilience Partnership (LHRP), including attendance at relevant Working on Tuesday meetings, multi-agency training, exercises and working groups.
• Develop strong working relationships with our internal hospital teams (clinical and non-clinical), our health sector partners and wider multi-agency organisations.
• Support the Trust response to incidents and disruptive events, as required.
• Understand risk management to ensure Emergency and Business Continuity Planning is undertaken within this wider context.
  
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Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire. Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive. We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer. The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust. Your Next Career Move Made Easier - Accommodation May Be Offered