Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Manager
Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service
Date: 5 days ago
City: Toowoomba, Queensland
Contract type: Full time
Are you passionate about making a difference in healthcare emergency preparedness? Darling Downs Health is seeking a dynamic and compassionate leader to join our team as an Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Manager. In this role, you will oversee disaster and emergency response plans, develop and maintain risk-based Business Continuity Plans, and provide expert advice on operational risk management. Your leadership and innovative thinking will drive continuous improvement and support our mission to deliver exceptional care.
What Your Day Will Look Like….
As an Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Manager, your day will be filled with impactful activities that ensure the safety and resilience of our healthcare services. You will collaborate with service delivery leads to develop and maintain Business Impact Analyses and Business Continuity Plans, ensuring they are robust and effective. Your role will involve providing operational leadership, offering expert advice on business continuity and risk management practices, and working closely with the executive team to integrate comprehensive disaster planning and policy development. You will lead regular testing programs for our preparedness plans, coordinate with local and state emergency management agencies, and represent Darling Downs Health at various forums. Your day will be a blend of strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and hands-on leadership, all aimed at fostering a culture of preparedness and excellence in emergency management.
Let's talk about you!
Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:
Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
Benefits!
Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.
Find out more about us!
Work with Us | Rural
Work with Us | Toowoomba
#WorkDDHHS #therightfit
Occupational group Management
What Your Day Will Look Like….
As an Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Manager, your day will be filled with impactful activities that ensure the safety and resilience of our healthcare services. You will collaborate with service delivery leads to develop and maintain Business Impact Analyses and Business Continuity Plans, ensuring they are robust and effective. Your role will involve providing operational leadership, offering expert advice on business continuity and risk management practices, and working closely with the executive team to integrate comprehensive disaster planning and policy development. You will lead regular testing programs for our preparedness plans, coordinate with local and state emergency management agencies, and represent Darling Downs Health at various forums. Your day will be a blend of strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and hands-on leadership, all aimed at fostering a culture of preparedness and excellence in emergency management.
Let's talk about you!
Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:
- Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.
- Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.
- Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.
- Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.
- Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.
Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
Benefits!
- Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
- A diverse work culture
- Career development
- Professional development opportunities
- Education opportunities, Study and Research
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Discounted Private Health Insurance
- Fitness Passport
- Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
- Generous Salary Sacrificing
Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.
Find out more about us!
Work with Us | Rural
Work with Us | Toowoomba
#WorkDDHHS #therightfit
Occupational group Management
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