Emergency Preparedness Specialist

Tower Health • Phoenixville, PA

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About The Position

The Emergency Preparedness Specialist supports the development, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the health system's Emergency Preparedness program across multiple hospitals and healthcare facilities. The role helps ensure organizational readiness for natural disasters, public health emergencies, utility disruptions, security incidents, and other critical events through planning, training, exercises, and regulatory compliance activities.

Working collaboratively with hospital departments, public safety teams, clinical leaders, and community response partners, the Specialist supports emergency operations planning, business continuity initiatives, emergency exercises, and incident response activities. The role also serves as a resource for preparedness education, documentation, compliance monitoring, and after-action improvement efforts, helping promote consistency, resilience, and operational readiness throughout the region.

Requirements

• Complete and maintain all competencies and trainings required for the role.
• Associate degree or a combination of relevant education and experience in lieu of an associate degree.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• General clerical, multitasking, computer, customer service, detail-orientation, problem-solving, organizational, listening, project management, collaborative, reasoning, and strategic thinking skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong team player with service orientation.
• Accountable for maintaining workplace safety.

Responsibilities

• Support the development, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the health system's Emergency Preparedness program.
• Help ensure organizational readiness for disasters, public health emergencies, utility disruptions, security incidents, and other critical events through planning, training, exercises, and regulatory compliance activities.
• Support emergency operations planning and business continuity initiatives.
• Support emergency exercises and incident response activities.
• Provide preparedness education and support documentation, compliance monitoring, and after-action improvement efforts.

Benefits

• Generous time off
• Tuition assistance
• Comprehensive benefits
• Tower Advance Pay, providing access throughout the pay period
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement Savings Program
• Life Insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Associate degree