Overview
Emergency Planning Officer – NN14 4LZ
Our Benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About the role
This role is part of the Emergency Planning Team. The team works to make NNC ready for emergencies, by assessing hazards and threats, then making plans and procedures to respond.
The role will play a key part in making North Northamptonshire prepared for emergencies by working within the authority, with communities and other responders for the benefit of our residents.
The role is 37 hours a week, Monday to Friday. After a period of training, you will join an on-call rota that provides 24/7 cover for the council to respond to emergencies that can happen at any time. Although the role is predominantly completed in normal office hours, the nature of the work requires flexibility and a willingness to work unsocial hours as required.
This role is for a full-time permanent contract.
For more information regarding the role, please contact chris.miller@northnorthants.gov.uk
About you
Emergencies can happen any time, and we need to be ready for them. The successful candidate will be flexible and willing to meet the demands of emergency response and the needs of our residents. You must be willing to take part in an on-call rota to provide out of hours cover for the authority. This role can deal with some challenging subjects and a great deal of personal resilience can be needed.
Candidates should have sound knowledge of civil protection and emergency management arrangements in the UK and how local responders can deliver them.
Successful candidates must be keen problem solvers. They should be able to produce creative and pragmatic solutions to resilience challenges. Candidates should be used to working with basic IT applications. We often use maps, and candidates should be comfortable using maps to communicate geographic information.
A full description of the qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience we are looking for can be found in the attached job description and person specification.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
