Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) Officer

We are recruiting for an 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. This is a 6 month fixed term opportunity. The post holder will support the Head of EPRR in ensuring the Trust meets its statutory responsibilities as a Category 1 Responder under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004) and remains compliant with NHS England EPRR Frameworks and Core Standards. Our Values areInclude,Respect andImprove. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!, The successful candidate will provide operational support during incidents and contribute to maintaining organisational resilience across the Trust. This role offers an excellent development opportunity for staff with an interest in emergency planning, resilience, incident response and business continuity. The post holder will support the delivery and development of the Trust's Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) arrangements, ensuring compliance with national standards and statutory requirements. The post holder will contribute to maintaining organisational resilience and ensuring the Trust is prepared to respond effectively to emergencies, incidents and business disruption.

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.