Daniel K. Email & Phone Number

•The programme lead for all matters relating to training and exercising for NHS Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response across the NHS and within NHS England.•Developing and supporting others to develop exercises within NHS England to support the development and testing of plans and procedures, as part of a programme and rapid development as an emerging situation may dictate. •Supporting exercise and training delivery through out the NHS, providing subject matter advice and guidance on the latest practice available.•Developing platforms to support the NHS in sharing findings from exercises, incidents and other events.•Lead the development of national training packages to tactical and strategic commanders.

• Led the Corporate EPRR Team in providing specialist EPRR advice as part of a reformed service during the COVID-19 pandemic.• Devised and implemented a resourced response structure to support the management of COVID-19 activity at the national level• Led the Corporate EPRR Team in establishing a new programme of work, establishing governance mechanisms and workstreams, including horizon scanning, risk assessment and specialist capabilities.• Ensured the continual improvement of response facilities and resilient secure communications for the agency’s response to incidents and emergencies and consideration of concurrent risks with COVID-19 and applicable guidance.

• Developed, managed and provided an expert and high-quality specialist Emergency Preparedness advice function for corporate emergency planning including being on-call and provide initial incident response.• Co-ordinated and led when appropriate, PHE internal response arrangements during major incidents and business continuity disruptions. Including responses to major incidents, outbreaks and COVID-19• Led a team in managing the development and maintenance of all PHE corporate EPRR plans and ensured that there was consistent and co-ordinated system of response. Ensured that plans and response systems were tested and exercised.• Actively contributed to and sustained the formulation of corporate policies and strategies, contingency guidance and plans, through liaison with the emergency services, the military, other government departments (OGDs), local authorities and other responsible agencies (e.g. Public Utilities, Voluntary Agencies, Industry and commercial organisations). • Ensured and managed robust response facilities and resilient secure communications for the agency’s response to incidents and emergencies. Active participation in managing the response to incidents and emergencies including infectious disease outbreaks, COVID-19.• Acted as country lead with international Emergency Preparedness work program working with other Public Health agencies principally in Nigeria, Myanmar and Rwanda.

London, United Kingdom

• Maintained & improved the organisations operational readiness to incidents (including Major Incident Control Centres)• Reviewed Trust resources for uses in emergency planning & incident response (including new IT systems).• Reviewed changes in EPRR guidance, provide recommendations to the Emergency Planning programme and implement as appropriate.• Trust Lead for CBRN.• Led planning & delivery of Trust-wide emergency exercises.• Led planning & delivery of incident on-call training, CBRN response, Trust induction (Emergency Preparedness), Emergency Department Major Incident Training.• Developed & maintained the Emergency Planning Teams Learning & Action database from incidents & exercises.• Deputised in Borough Resilience Forums, internal meetings & NHS England EPRR patch meetings.• Developed & maintained a business continuity plan tracker system to ensure oversight of departmental business continuity plans.• Advised Senior Managers & Directors in relation to emergency plans, policies & guidelines, before, during and after incidents.

Canterbury, United Kingdom

Working as part of the Emergency Planning and Business Continuity Team my principle role and responsibilities were:• Nominated as the resilience link to one of the three acute hospital sites supporting wards and departments in Emergency Planning, Business Continuity matters & specific plans.• Supported Senior Staff at a Tactical level during internal and external incidents.• Reviewed Control Room plans and upgraded as required after undertaking analysis.• Provided the administration for Emergency Planning and Business Continuity Committees and acted as deputy chair.• Reviewed new guidance and documentation (such as Emergency Preparedness Framework 2013), analysed against the organisations Emergency Planning and Business Continuity programme made and implemented recommendations to the programme and associated plans.• Developed a trust-wide CBRN plan as well as ensuring the relevant CBRN equipment for each site were checked regularly & maintained.• Part of the Kent Resilience Forum's Public Warning and Informing working group.• Created and administrated the Emergency Planning & Business Continuity Corrective Action Plan database to keep track of departments activities and deadlines and could be used as a reporting tool.• Acted as the organisation's liaison with a 3rd party tasked with creating a winter resilience reporting tool to PCT/CCGs based on real-time data.• Delivered training to Emergency Department staff detailing requirements in a Major Incident.• Led the organisation's part in a large multi-national major incident exercise involving live casualties being brought to hospital via national and international Search and Rescue Helicopters along with simulated internal business continuity issues.