POD Command Staff

Lesson 2: Positions With Direct Staff

Planning Unit Deputy

The Planning Unit Deputy plans ahead for the next shift and anticipates additional needs and ways to address problems that arose during the current shift.

The Planning Unit Lead would be needed if the POD is expected to run more than one day. This person ensures the completion of any documentation and staff sign-in sheets and keeps track of any and all patient and staff paperwork throughout the POD. This is the POD’s record keeping unit. This unit also anticipates when staff and supplies are going to run out and plans for changing needs for the next shift/day. They do this by gathering info from the Operations and Logistics Unit Deputies.

If the event is small and at only one or two locations, the job duties of the Planning section may be assigned to the Logistics and Operations sections. Whether the Planning Unit Lead is activated or not, the Data Management and Sign In/Sign Out sections will be functioning.

They can be identified by the GREEN vest they are wearing

Data Management – Organize any and all paperwork created at the POD.
Sign In/Sign Out – Assure that staff sign in upon arrival and receive paperwork, badges, and vests. Also have these items returned upon the staff members’ departure from the POD and sign them out.

Sign In/Sign Out staff give brochures (job action sheets) to staff along with badges, vests, and forms. In a Multiple day event these staff members may be asked to give a basic orientation to new members as they sign in and then the POD Manager or Planning Section chief will give the full Just in Time Training.

If the event is small and at only one or two locations, the job duties of the Planning section may be assigned to Logistics and Operations sections. Whether the Planning Unit Lead is activated or not the Data Management and Sign In/Sign Out sections will be functioning.

POD Command Staff

Lesson 2: Positions With Direct Staff

Planning Unit Deputy

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