Emergency Management Specialist

Emergency Management Specialist

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives.

The Emergency Management Specialist will support the Director of Emergency Management with the development and maintenance of the emergency management program for Winchester Hospital. The Emergency Management Specialist will engage in healthcare professional level emergency management work including developing, coordinating, and implementing emergency plans and operating procedures, developing educational and outreach strategies, analyzing and distributing information concerning natural and man-made emergencies and/or disasters, planning and conducting emergency management exercises and training classes, serving in an emergency response role, and developing risk assessments and emergency management procedures. This role is primarily remote but will require travel to onsite locations in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to:

• Reviews and analyzes hospital and off-site location plans, makes revisions, updates, and improvements to emergency plans to effectively handle disasters or major emergencies, develops new plans as needed, and ensures that plans are current and adequately address specific emergencies or disasters and confirm with accreditation regulatory requirements.
• Revises, updates, and/or develops emergency management standard operating procedures, ensures that operating procedures are consistent and understood by emergency management partners/liaisons, and maintains close communication with designated partners/liaisons in order to relay new procedures and developments.
• Coordinates with internal departments and external partners that have operational roles in emergency situations for the purpose of developing multi-agency approaches to emergency management planning.
• Conducts and/or supports risk and threat assessments, works with internal departments on specific emergency plans, coordinates interdepartmental drills, and serves as an advisor during disaster mitigation, response, and recovery efforts.
• Participates in ensuring organizational preparedness through inventorying available equipment and supplies, and ensuring readiness of staff and assigned facilities.
• Facilitates regular meetings with internal departments to accomplish emergency management program goals and objectives.
• Ensures the readiness of the Emergency Operations Centers through conducting inventory, ensuring plans and other applicable documents are up to date, and testing all technology.
• Represents Emergency Management at various committees/external partner meetings and events as assigned by the Emergency Management Director.
• Performs as the Emergency Management POC on-call, on a rotating basis, to support with incident and event response 30-50% of the time.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required.

Licensure, Certification & Registration: N/A

Experience: 1-3 years of experience in emergency management, public safety, program management, and/or operational planning.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

• Must have exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including proofreading, editing, and formatting proficiency.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and relevant job-related applications.
• Able to adapt and respond swiftly to rapidly changing emergencies and demonstrates flexible and efficient time management, with the capability to prioritize workload effectively.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• Experience in healthcare emergency management, project management, or the healthcare field.

Dept/Unit Specific Skills:

• Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.
• Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied, complex and often non-recurring, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.
• Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.
• Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.
• Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
• Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.
• Team Work: Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups, creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows. Results may impact the operations of one or more departments.
• Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.

Pay Range: $79,999.92 USD - $104,000.00 USD

The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled