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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.