Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Band: 8a (4.5% on call for NILO)
Location: Middlebrook (with the opportunity for home and agile working)
Job Type: Full time
Assessment centre/professional discussion – TBC
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Trust Resilience team as Resilience Manager for Integrated Contact Centres. Reporting to the Head of Contingency Planning, the post holder will work alongside other Resilience Managers and Officers across areas including ICC, business continuity, quality assurance and improvement, and Local Resilience Forum area cover.
The role supports the Trust in meeting its duties under the Civil Contingencies Act and NHS England EPRR Core Standards. Working with internal teams including Operations, Integrated Contact Centres, Risk, Estates and Digital, the post holder will help ensure robust plans, arrangements and assurance processes are in place to support patient and staff safety during complex and major incidents.
The post also involves inter-agency liaison and decision making on behalf of NWAS in relation to Integrated Emergency Management. This includes risk assessment, contingency planning, validating emergency arrangements, and supporting the design and delivery of multi-agency training and exercises. The post holder will provide specialist advice to statutory and third sector partners on NWAS response arrangements, multi-agency operations and planned or emerging events.
As a National Inter-agency Liaison Officer, the post holder will provide specialist tactical and operational advice to NWAS commanders and partner agencies. They will be expected to maintain the required competencies in line with National Occupational Standards and participate in the Trust NILO on-call rota.
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport.
Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed.
We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need.
Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident.
We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Please ensure that you have read and understood the job description and person specification before applying.
Please note that applicants are not expected to meet every point on the person specification at the point of application. We recognise that some criteria can only be fully achieved through experience in similar roles. Applicants should be able to demonstrate their potential to develop these skills and work towards the required competencies in post. This will be explored further at assessment centre and professional discussion for candidates who progress to that stage.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a skilled, supportive and varied EPRR team, working across the regional footprint of North West Ambulance Service.
