NHS Kent & Medway
Senior EPRR Programme Manager
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Role Availability
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed by the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Southeast Integrated Care Boards; and current at-risk employees within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts.
Role Overview
- Senior leadership and strategic oversight of the ICB’s EPRR arrangements, ensuring statutory compliance, trust assurance and continuous improvement
- Leading the EPRR team
- Providing senior EPRR advice during incidents
- Representing the ICB within LRF, LHRP and regional structures
- Deputising for the Deputy Director as required
Position Details
We are appointing to two full-time positions.
Senior EPRR Programme Manager
- Provides senior leadership across the Integrated Care Board to ensure statutory compliance with the Civil Contingencies Act (2004) and NHS Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response requirements
- Provides leadership to all the defined elements of the ICB and wider system EPRR programme, ensuring compliance, assurance, programme delivery, and continuous improvement in preparedness and response
- Acts as a senior subject matter expert, provides strategic advice during incidents, supports the on-call framework, and deputises for the Deputy Director when required
- Manages resilience capability across NHS providers, Local Resilience Forum partners including local authorities, emergency services, voluntary partners and national bodies, ensuring integrated planning, risk management and effective incident response
- Operates with a high degree of autonomy as a senior EPRR subject matter expert within the function, responsible for interpreting and implementing national EPRR policy across the ICB and wider system, and determining how these are applied in practice
- Provides team resilience across the System Resilience and EPRR function, and participates in an Subject Matter Expert on call rota
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Our Commitment to Staff
- We are committed to a culture that supports all staff at NHS Kent and Medway to be the best version of themselves
- Our ability to improve outcomes for our population depends on how effectively clinical, operational, financial and strategic professionals work together to make informed commissioning decisions
- Our workforce works a minimum of two days-a-week on-site, with the expectation that all one-to-ones are held face-to-face and that colleagues will regularly visit the services we are commissioning to understand more about them
- Regular on-site working supports stronger collaboration, faster problem-solving, peer learning, visible leadership and the integration of colleagues into our organisation
- We also know that culture is built through shared experiences and day-to-day interactions
- We are a flexible working friendly organisation; we aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us
- We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal and access to training opportunities
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Equal Opportunities and Diversity
- We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity
- We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Matthew Drinkwater
- Job title: Deputy Director of EPRR
- Email address: matthew.drinkwater@nhs.net
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