Resilience Manager

Job Title:        Resilience Manager

Team:             Public Health

Hours:            37 per week

Grade:            J SCP 35 £43,421 to SCP 39 £47,420

Contract:        Fixed Term – 18 months

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The Role:

We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and experienced Resilience Manager to manage the delivery of emergency planning and resilience activity, to ensure that the Council is affective in anticipating and responding to any civil emergencies and disruption to service delivery, in line with the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. 

The successful candidate will:

Lead on the development and implementation of emergency & business continuity plans and procedures, ensuring that Council services are equipped to meet their statutory duty.

Prepare and implement the Council’s incident management arrangements, ensuring an effective, co-ordinated response to and recovery from significant incidents including capture of post event lessons learned from duty responders.

Will work with corporate leads to ensure an effective business continuity planning process at a corporate level, offering advice and guidance at a directorate and service level, which will assist directorates to co-ordinate activity in the event of disruptive incidents.

Develop and maintain strong relationships with partner agencies, ensuring shared planning, preparedness, response and recovery to incidents and emergencies, including Greater Manchester Resilience Unit (GMRU) and the borough’s Health Protection Board.

Contribute to the corporate risk register linking corporate, directorate and service risks to business continuity plans where appropriate. 

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Job Description

About You

As a highly motivated Resilience Manager, you will have experience of successfully managing emergency incidents or crisis situations, including dealing with people in challenging situations.

You will be able to coordinate and communicate effectively with all levels of the organisation and external agencies in the public, private and voluntary sector.  You will be able to use your own initiative and be proactive, as well as having the aptitude to constructively challenge processes when required.

You will also be able to analyse and problem-solve complex issues, evaluate options and apply knowledge to emergency situations and critical / major incidents.

About Us

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough. 

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.  

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see the Work with Us page on greater.jobs;  for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk

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