Emergency Management Officer

Job title: Emergency Management Officer

Job description: Your Opportunity:

An exciting opportunity exists to join the AHS Provincial Emergency Preparedness team within the South Zone. If you have a passion for emergency management, patient-focused health care and thrive in a high-paced team environment, then this opportunity may be for you. This position is based out of Medicine Hat and would be responsible for leading and coordinating mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery activities for a portfolio of approximately 20 AHS sites, including six hospital facilities.

Description:

The Emergency Management Officer works both independently and in a team environment with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders in support of education and training initiatives: Supports Zone-wide emergency response planning initiatives that can be categorized as follows: Hazard Vulnerability and Risk Assessment. Mitigation. Planning/Preparedness. Training/Exercising. Incident Command System, Site Command Post & Zone Emergency Operations Centre training offered to Zone Executive, Senior Management, Management and frontline Staff. Emergency Response Code exercises offered to Management and frontline Staff. CBRN First Receiver Program. The Program is designed to prepare ED and UCC Staff to provide decontamination of casualties during incidents involving Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and other Hazardous Materials exposures. Personal Disaster Preparedness, offered to staff and external participants. Responsibilities include: Risk assessments. Identification of mitigation strategies. Design, delivery and evaluation of training exercises. Provide AHS Incident Management System expertise and support in response to incidents to Zone Executive, Senior Management, Management and Frontline Staff. Preparation of written reports post exercise/post incident debriefing with recommendations. Support AHS through the transition from response to recovery. The Emergency Management Officer acts as an expert resource to Management and frontline Staff, including Physicians; as such they are responsible for maintaining strong linkages with service providers across the Zone and with external agencies at both the planning and implementation phases.

• Classification: Officer
• Union: Exempt
• Unit and Program: Provincial Emergency Preparedness
• Primary Location: Medicine Hat Regional Hospital
• Location Details: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta
• Negotiable Location: Within South Zone
• Employee Class: Regular Full Time
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 16-NOV-2022
• Date Available: 03-JAN-2023
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days, On Call
• Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Salary: $28.20
• Maximum Salary: $48.45
• Vehicle Requirement: Driver’s License, Vehicle Required

Required Qualifications:

Undergraduate degree preferably in a clinical area (nursing, allied health). A combination of relevant education and experience in Healthcare and Emergency Response Planning may be considered. Master’s level educational preparation desirable. Experience in a health care field or profession desired. Professional designation and / or registration an asset. Five to ten years within a health care environment in a variety of clinical settings, including supervisory/management experience. In order to ensure Emergency/Disaster Management credibility while working with the extensive range of internal stakeholders, it is critical that the incumbent be knowledgeable of the health care system and have clinical experience, preferably in both acute and community-related health care.
Additional Required Qualifications:

In addition, the position requires a wide range of knowledge on current trends and practices in emergency planning, the ability and willingness to keep current in a fast-growing industry and the ability to work efficiently under extremely stressful conditions. Other required experience, knowledge and skills: Experience in the preparation and delivery of educational/training programs preferred, including exercises. Experience in emergency management within health care, government or industry desirable. Demonstrated proficiency in the preparation of written reports and papers. Demonstrated ability to lead, directly or indirectly, multidisciplinary project teams. Required Emergency/Disaster Management courses &/or experience to be obtained within 6 months of hiring: Basic Emergency Management. Incident Command System Level 100 & 200. Exercise Design. Business Continuity Management. Public Safety Canada CBRN Awareness Course or equivalent CBRN/Hazmat certification. University of Arizona Basic HazMat Life Support Course for health professionals.
Preferred Qualifications:

Critical thinking and understanding. Knowledge of the theoretical underpinnings of the basic emergency/disaster management set of core competencies, and their limitations in terms of how they should be applied. Be familiar with emergency management mitigation, emergency response and recovery plans and be able to write a complete set of plans for a site, service or other functional area. Have sufficient knowledge of legislation, regulation and codes that impact emergency planning and response.

Please note:

All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.

Security Screening:

A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.

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Company: Alberta Health Services

Expected salary:

Location: Medicine Hat, AB

Job date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 08:46:41 GMT

Job Source: Careerjet.ca

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