Senior EPRR Programme Manager

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; and deputising for the Deputy Director as required., The 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.

The role will provide 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. The postholder acts as a senior subject matter expert, provides strategic advice during incidents, supports the on-callframework, and deputises for the Deputy Director when required. Working through a matrix model, the role 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.

The postholder 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. The postholder will provide team resilience across the System Resilience and EPRR function, and participate in an Subject Matter Expert on call rota.

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. That's why 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.

We believe 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.