Senior Emergency Preparedness, Resilience And Response Officer
CurrentKey Tasks & Achievements:- I am the lead on delivering the portfolio of work associated with the Councils’ duties under REPPIR19. This involves producing the Councils’ off-site emergency plan, overseeing and delivering the modular test programme designed to test and exercise all elements of the off-site arrangements, and collaborating with and leading multi-agency partners (including the Ministry of Defence) to ensure arrangements are fit-for-purpose.- Chair of the national-level Local Authorities Nuclear Working Group (LANWG) which seeks to provide local authorities with a national forum to share information, develop better practice for nuclear off-site emergency plans, and to promote adequate off-site emergency arrangements and support to on-site arrangements. Providing a forum to identify and resolve local authority issues or escalate to the National Nuclear Resilience Committee (NRCC) for resolution.- Until recently led on business continuity for both Councils, including writing corporate policy documents, plans, carrying out business impact analysis for all areas of the councils, developing and delivering training and exercising, and ensuring lessons identified from incidents and exercises are included in updated arrangements.- Lead and support colleagues in writing emergency response plans for the local authority (e.g., site-specific plans) and multi-agency plans for HIOW LRF (e.g., Fuel Disruption Framework).- Facilitating debriefs for exercises and incident responses internally (business continuity) and externally (multi-agency responses, e.g. Storm Ciaran).- Provide an on-call Emergency Duty Officer function on a rota basis, whereby I coordinate the local authority’s response and allocate resources to manage the incident at hand. Supporting strategic and tactical leaders within both Councils to ensure they are provided with timely, accurate advice for key decision making during times of crisis.
