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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Royal Society for Public Health has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Royal Society for Public Health awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Royal Society for Public Health.
The RSPH Level 4 Diploma in Health Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response aims to equip candidates with knowledge and skills to effectively participate in the development and delivery of emergency preparedness arrangements in healthcare settings.
These are the units Royal Society for Public Health registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Royal Society for Public Health. It does the teaching and the mapping. Royal Society for Public Health sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Command, Control and Communication Arrangements Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the national command structures for health.
- Understand the command, control and coordination structure at operational, tactical and strategic levels for multi-agency working.
- Develop and produce communications procedures used in preparation, response and recovery from an emergency.
Delivering Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response in Healthcare Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Develop an annual work plan.
- Understand the EPRR governance arrangements for healthcare organisations.
- Understand how to develop and maintain multi-agency partnerships.
Developing Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response Arrangements Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Develop EPRR arrangements.
- Understand how to evaluate and revise EPRR arrangements.
Healthcare Resilience Continuity Arrangements Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Understand healthcare resilience in the context of EPRR.
- Understand how to develop, invoke, and review a business continuity plan.
- Understand the recovery processes following the response to incidents or emergencies.
Integrated Emergency Management and Health Emergency Preparedness Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements relating to Health Emergency Preparedness.
- Understand the responsibilities of Category 1 and 2 responders.
- Understand the principles of Integrated Emergency Management in Health Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response.
- Determine the likelihood and potential impact of an emergency occurring in a local community.
Managing the Response to Healthcare Incidents and Emergencies Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the specific health response arrangements required to mitigate the effects of health emergencies.
- Understand the requirements for operation of an Incident Coordination Centre during incidents or emergencies.
- Understand the need for effective information management to optimise decision making during incidents or emergencies.
Plan, Conduct and Evaluate EPRR Exercises Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and develop exercises.
- Direct and facilitate EPRR exercises.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of an exercise.
Prepare, Deliver and Evaluate EPRR training Real unit · Royal Society for Public Health
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to deliver EPRR training.
- Deliver EPRR training.
- Evaluate EPRR training after delivery.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Anticipate and assess the risk of emergencies
- Standard
Create exercises to practice or validate emergency or business continuity arrangements
- Standard
Manage Major Emergency Situations
- Standard
Organise emergency reception and treatment services following a major incident
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
- 1 record
- 1 record
Where this can lead
Crisis Management Specialist
This work can lead to broader risk management roles, senior crisis and business continuity management, or resilience roles that shape how a whole organisation prepares for major shocks.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Royal Society for Public Health rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Command, Control and Communication ArrangementsDelivering Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response in HealthcareDeveloping Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response ArrangementsHealthcare Resilience Continuity ArrangementsIntegrated Emergency Management and Health Emergency PreparednessManaging the Response to Healthcare Incidents and EmergenciesPlan, Conduct and Evaluate EPRR ExercisesPrepare, Deliver and Evaluate EPRR training
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Plan, Conduct and Evaluate EPRR Exercises” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Prepare, Deliver and Evaluate EPRR training” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Integrated Emergency Management and Health Emergency Preparedness” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Anticipate and assess the risk of emergencies
- Create exercises to practice or validate emergency or business continuity arrangements
- Manage Major Emergency Situations
- Organise emergency reception and treatment services following a major incident
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Command, Control and Communication Arrangements, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit provides insight into the command structures and communication protocols essential for effective incident management within healthcare.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Royal Society for Public Health Level 4 Occupational Qualification in Healthcare Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Royal Society for Public Health.
- Command, Control and Communication Arrangements
- Delivering Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response in Healthcare
- Developing Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response Arrangements
- Healthcare Resilience Continuity Arrangements
- Integrated Emergency Management and Health Emergency Preparedness
- Managing the Response to Healthcare Incidents and Emergencies
and 2 more in the full unit list below.
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