Business Continuity Specialist

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Job Type:

Regular

Scheduled Hours:

40

Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

 

Benefits That Support You

We invest in you — personally and professionally.

Enjoy:

- Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.

- Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules

- Retirement savings with employer match

- Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities

- Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs

- Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility

Job Summary:

The Business Continuity and Emergency Management Specialist helps support preparedness, continuity, and emergency management activities across SEP sites and hospital locations. This role works with leaders and departments to gather information, maintain plans and records, support training and exercises, assist during incidents or disruptions, and track follow-up actions that help protect patient care, staff safety, and essential operations. Role-specific training and guidance will be provided. Demonstrates respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.

Job Description:

Job Duties:

Business impact analysis and risk review: Help gather, organize, and update information from departments to identify important services, needed resources, recovery priorities, and potential risks that could affect operations.

Business continuity planning: Help create, update, organize, and maintain Business Continuity Plans, recovery information, department readiness materials, and related documents for hospital and SEP operations.

Emergency management support: Help maintain emergency plans, procedures, contact lists, communication materials, preparedness records, and survey-readiness documentation. Work with clinical, operational, administrative, and external partners as assigned.

Exercises, training, and improvement activities: Help plan, coordinate, deliver, and evaluate drills, exercises, downtime activities, and training. Maintain attendance records, collect feedback, support follow-up discussions, and track improvement actions to completion.

Incident response and recovery support: Support emergency response activities as assigned. Help document information, share status updates, send or support notifications, coordinate resources, track action items, and assist with recovery and follow-up after an event.

Records, reporting, and coordination: Maintain records, reports, dashboards, meeting materials, task lists, document-control information, and survey-readiness evidence. Coordinate with departments and external partners as assigned.

Perform other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education, Credentials, Licenses:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Within 1 year of starting position, must complete organization-required emergency management, incident command, and safety training.

Specialized Knowledge:

• Strong organizational, documentation, communication, customer service, and follow-up skills.
• Ability to learn and apply emergency preparedness, incident response, business continuity, recovery, and corrective-action processes.
• Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders, maintain accurate readiness records, and communicate effectively during routine operations and emergency conditions.

Kind and Length of Experience:

• Two years of experience in a healthcare, clinical, technical, administrative, operational, or support role.
• Qualifying experience may include supporting department workflows, documentation, scheduling, meeting coordination, communication, process improvement, customer service, or cross-functional team activities.

PREFERRED

Education, Credentials, Licenses:

• Completion of role-related training or certification in emergency preparedness, incident command, business continuity, project coordination, safety, quality, or a related area.

Specialized Knowledge:

• Familiarity with healthcare operations, emergency preparedness, safety, quality, process improvement, documentation, or regulatory readiness.
• Exposure to business continuity, emergency response, incident command, exercises, After-Action Reviews, or corrective-action tracking.

Kind and Length of Experience:

• Experience supporting healthcare operations, department workflows, documentation, scheduling, meeting coordination, communication, process improvement, customer service, or cross-functional team activities.

FLSA Status:

Exempt

Right Career. Right Here. If you're looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.