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To support the Hospital based tactical resilience groups to develop robust site based resilience plans. Support the design, delivery and maintenance of a comprehensive Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) across all Trust directorates, delivery partners and supply chain; fulfilling the requirements of stakeholders and aligning the Trust to ISO 22301 providing assurance to regulators. Maintain the Trust's business continuity management system and ensure it stays relevant to the risk environment such as industrial action, terrorism or infectious diseases outbreaks. Ensure the Board of Directors and site operations teams are fully briefed and confident in the Trust's preparedness arrangements.

Support the Trust's emergency planning function to manage the response to major and / or mass casualty incidents by supporting the development and maintenance of key response plans and action cards. Support strategic, tactical and operational managers to ensure they are confident in their command and control roles. To aid the site operational teams formulate the operational response to planned and unplanned events. To assist with, and lead as appropriate, the comprehensive training and exercising programmes for staff at all levels from 'floor to Board' with specialist training for those members of staff with specific roles in the Trust's response to incidents, and all managers on the on-call rota.

Where required by Trust Leadership, directly support the response to an incident, crises, or emergency. This may require a flexible approach to business working hours, extended hours at work, and a requirement to attend University Hospital Southampton (UHS) out of core business hours. Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the Job Description and Main Responsibilities section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.