Senior EPRR Programme Manager

Main area EPRR Grade NHS AfC:
Band 8b Contract 12 months (Fixed term/Secondment) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (plus on calls) Job  
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Employer NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site Gail House Town Maidstone Salary £66,582 - £77,368 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/09/2026 23:59

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.

We are recruiting to two full-time, fixed-term positions for a period of 12 months.

• 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-call framework, 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.

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.

• Educated to masters level or able to demonstrate significant specialist knowledge acquired through substantial senior leadership experience in emergency planning

• Highly developed knowledge of EPRR, business continuity, incident response and NHS EPRR assurance frameworks developed through substantial exposure in NHS and multi-agency environments.

• Able to design, deliver and evaluate large-scale multi-agency training and exercising programmes.