Emergency Management Specialist- Community Hospitals (North) Division

Beth Israel Lahey Health • Beverly, MA

11d • Onsite

About The Position

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. The position will be based in Beverly, with responsibilities to include Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester, Bayridge Hospital and BILH Care Center in Danvers. This is a predominately on-site position, with some remote work at times. The Emergency Management Specialist will support the Director of Emergency Management with the development and maintenance of the emergency management program for the Community Hospital (North) Division. 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 1-3 years of experience in emergency management, public safety, program management, and/or operational planning.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• 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 addresses 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.

Benefits

• 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.
• Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
• At Beth Israel Lahey Health, we are driving the change in health care that Massachusetts wants and needs. Our culture promotes continuous learning, growth, innovation and a sense of belonging. We make it a priority to offer comprehensive compensation and benefits and help you achieve a healthy and balanced life. While you're busy caring for and supporting our patients, we take care of you.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees