Craig Mcgowan Email & Phone Number

Historic university qualified to Double Masters self-taught heights, an inspirational leader, strategic advisor, project director and holistic change professional boasting a stand-out pedigree of demonstrable delivery. Boasting in-depth, immersed day-to-day working knowledge, understanding and application of current and emerging Civil Contingencies, Public and Environmental Health, Civil Aviation, Security, NHS, Local Government, and Animal and Plant Health legislation, harnessed with savvy problem solving, flexibility, focus and project cohesion attributes culminates in being quickly embraced as informed and trusted in working environments of all sizes and primary objectives.• Leadership and weighty influencer for positive followership throughout staff groups, inclusive of primary tasks and functions, embracing corporate goals, ethos, and objectives. • Influencing collective agendas and the views of key decision makers. • Enabler of peers to own opportunities to solve issues. Improving individually and system wide.• Engaging the public and client bases and putting end-users at the heart of decision making. • Identifying viable improvements in service delivery and invoking client-centred redesign.• Commander of resources. Stringent budget (work force, finance, time) development, oversight, and delivery.• Implementer of coordinated and tiered on call, 27/7/365 and emergency response mechanisms and underpinning certified training and exercising cycles across geographically dispersed sites.• Mediator and seeker of positive compromise, reducing conflict and uniting disparate and competing stakeholders.• Interaction, communication, and expectation management, identifying transferrable best practice inclusively and beyond boundaries of hierarchy, profession, and industry norms.• Experienced in legislator, regulator, and wider stakeholder engagement and working cohesively.• Organisational business and service continuity risk assessment, planning, and review.• Emergency plan, incident and exercise debriefing incorporating identification and application of ‘lessons learned’. Positive exploitation of social media and emerging communication technologies in emergencies. • News media and political scrutiny.

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  Head Of Eprr (Inteim)

  Kettering General Hospital Nhs Foundation Trust

  Oct 2023 - Present - Kettering, England, United Kingdom

  Interim Head of EPRR contract whilst successful recruitment is conducted. Delivering against the Commissioner agreed 2023/24 EPRR Action Plan and a backdrop of further Group alignment with Northamptonshire General Hospital NHS Trust, and high-scoring RAAC, evacuation, and Winter risks, lead the organisation towards a much improved position of 'resilience' in line with 2024 NHS EPRR Core Standards.