Emergency Planning and Resilience Manager

The post holder will be responsible for leading emergency and resilience planning across Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation Trust by developing plans and processes for the organisation's strategic and operational response in line the NHS EPRR Core Standards and by the provision of authoritative expert advice to the Trust/Executive on these matters. They will manage and coordinate emergency planning and business continuity resilience for the Trust, working internally across directorates and externally with partner organisations including Surrey Heartlands and Frimley ICB. The post holder will work as part of a wider Chief Operating Officer support team and will be expected to lead and support operational priorities and provide resilience and cross-cover into this team.
Please note as part of the selection process, candidates will be asked to complete a psychometric assessment., The post holder will proactively support the Trust Accountable Emergency Officer and have direct responsibility for ensuring that the Trust maintains emergency and business continuity plans to fulfil its legal obligations under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, compliance with the NHS England EPRR Core Standards plus other legislation and supporting guidance, such as the Health and Care Act 2022. In business disruption, critical or major incidents the post holder will advise and support Trust strategic and tactical decision makers in relation to emergency planning arrangements. Support is to be provided in person and both during normal working hours and out of hours.
The post holder will increase the resilience of the Trust through continuous cycles of development, implementing and testing major incidents, emergency and business continuity plans. The post holder will organise and deliver specialist training in emergency planning and business continuity for the executive leadership team and other co-owners and will represent the Trust at national, regional and local health and multi-agency training exercises. The post-holder will represent the Trust at a senior level at multi-agency emergency planning committees and will represent the organisations at Local Resilience Forum meetings working closely with representatives from other Category 1 and 2 responder organisations and will liaise with external agencies in drawing up multi-agency emergency plans across Surrey.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby., We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.