Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity (EPBC) Specialist - M06 -01
Job Title: Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity (EPBC) Specialist - M06 -01
Salary: The starting salary is £34,808, which includes allowances totalling £2,928.
The salary is broken down as £31,880 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £34,108. Plus, a location allowance of £1,928 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.
Location: Lambeth
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity Team as an Emergency Preparedness & Business Continuity Specialist.
The Role
Provide subject matter expertise in Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity to ensure the MPS meets its statutory obligations under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. Deliver testing, exercising, training and organisational learning, and provide tactical advice and support to operational commanders during major incidents and disruptive events.
Working for the Met doesn’t have to mean patrolling the streets. Just as important as our uniformed officers is our 14,000-strong team of professional and support staff working behind the scenes. It’s these skilled people who provide the organisational capability to police London.
This is an operational role in regard to the Hybrid Working Policy. Police staff working in Operational roles will be required to work from a Met location. Line managers will have the autonomy to offer Hybrid Working opportunities, including WFH, for up to the equivalent of 1 day per week (no more than 20% working time) providing that there is no impact on operational delivery.
Duties and Responsibilities –
- Design and deliver testing, exercising, and training programmes to ensure MPS compliance with the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and JESIP (Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Protocols).
- Create, maintain, and evaluate Business Continuity Plans and Business Impact Assessments across MPS business groups to strengthen resilience.
- Advise and support operational commanders at gold, silver, and bronze levels during live incidents, ensuring effective response and recovery.
- Represent the MPS at London Resilience forums and multi-agency partnerships, contributing Subject Matter Expert advice to joint plans and exercises.
- Lead and facilitate organisational learning by conducting debriefs, collating lessons identified, and embedding improvements into policy and practice.
- Prepare and deliver briefings, reports and presentations to senior leaders, management board members, and external partners to influence decision-making.
- Coordinate and collaborate with partner agencies, local authorities, and other blue-light services to deliver joint resilience planning and exercising.
- Maintain horizon scanning of potential risks and emerging threats to ensure the MPS is prepared for future major incidents and business continuity risks.
- Provide advisory support to Police Commanders during live major events with some decision-making scope regarding deployment of major incident advisor cars.
- Deliver on-call cover (expected 1 x 8 weeks variable depending on abstractions and demand) as part of the emergency preparedness rota.
Benefits
You will enjoy the kind of great benefits that you’d expect from one of London's largest employers.
These include:
- Annual leave entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service
- Civil service pension arrangements
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Membership of Met sports and social clubs
- Flexible working conditions and many more.
London is one of the most exciting and diverse cities in the world – and policing it is no easy task. It takes a huge number of people from all sorts of different backgrounds with a wide range of skills and experience. Do you have what it takes to be one of them? Find out if a career with the Met is what you’re looking for and what kind of challenges; experience and rewards you could have in store.
To streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
How to apply
To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply button “. The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form. In your Personal Statement, you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate. Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV, and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and Personal Statement.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 10th February 2026.
Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager.
Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview.