An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) Team for a dynamic EPRR Officer at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT). The post holder will work across all trust sites, including St Thomas’, Guy’s, Evelina Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton, Harefield and all community sites to support the delivery of the EPRR agenda.
We are seeking to appoint a high calibre and credible individual. You must be a dynamic, innovative and motivated individual, passionate about Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response, who strives to put the patient experience first and who shares the trust values.
Our EPRR Team have a high-profile role, with trust wide responsibility to ensure the trust remains resilient to incidents and disruptive events. The team function is to enable to organisation as a category 1 responder, to meet the full statutory duties under the CCA 2004, ensuring alignment to emergency preparedness and business continuity statutory and legislative requirements and standards.
The post holder will also be capable of working under pressure, prioritising to deadlines and multi-tasking. Good motivation, persuasion and planning skills are also essential, ideally developed in an NHS environment. You will be able to demonstrate an ability to guide, direct and support the trust and colleagues as circumstances dictate.
The post requires a high standard of communication, analysis, clear thinking, organisational skills, training experience and offers excellent opportunities for career development.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have around 23,600 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust offers a comprehensive range of benefits and support to its employees, including flexible working, generous annual leave, access to the NHS Pension Scheme and various health and wellbeing initiatives.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Caroline Fiore Job title: Head of EPPR Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 07809217006
