Emergency Planning Manager (Maternity Cover)

Some of the roles of this position will include but not limited to the following:

Leading on the Council's preparedness, response and recovery arrangements under the Civil Contingencies Act.
Responsible for the development and delivery of the Council's Emergency Planning and Business Continuity policy and strategy.
Development of specific policies and procedures to contribute to the continuous improvement in designated work area.
Coordination of the work of a team, both formally and/or as part of a project to ensure individual and team objectives are delivered.
Ensure work objectives are delivered in line with agreed standards and/or statutory requirements and effectively communicated to partners and service providers.

It's essential that the successful candidate has relevant experience of working in Emergency Planning. They must also have an understanding of the legislation, associated guidance and industry standards relevant to Emergency Planning or Business Continuity in a local authority.

The candiate must be willing to be on the emergency planning out of hours on-call rota, this will necessitate some out of hours working including evenings and weekends due to the emergency planning on-call rota.

Good interpersonal skills and experience of working with multi-agencies and partners is desirable.

The London Borough of Sutton is committed to effectively deliver our statutory Emergency Planning duties across the Borough. To achieve this, we work quite closely in partnership with a variety of agencies and partners such as the Metropolitan Police Service, London Ambulance and Fire Services.

We focus on quality, effective team performances and maintaining good relations with all our esteemed partners and agencies.

Our Offer To You
As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we're committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We're constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across - however big or small - will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

In addition, we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff, supported by our IT infrastructure, including Google Chromebooks and Google Apps. Our Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme embraces new ways of working. It provides improved work life balance for our staff as it allows staff to work from a variety of locations and staff are not required to work within the office 5 days a week.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:

Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)
Flexi-time (Please note, this applies to roles at grades 1-9 only)
Three volunteering days per year in Sutton
Comprehensive learning and development programme
Local and national discounts for shopping, eating out and leisure activities
Interest free season ticket loans
Local Government Pension Scheme
Car parking scheme
Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
Zip car scheme
Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
Confidential wellbeing and counselling support
Subsidised gym membership
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