Patrick Rees

Module Lead for Certificate of Higher Education Emergency Preparedness and Civil Protection

Patrick joined the NHS ambulance service in 1990 and progressed through a range of operational roles, including operational paramedic, as well as supervisory and managerial roles.

Since 2002, he has been involved in emergency preparedness, resilience and response (EPRR) roles, gaining experience at both local, pan Wales, and UK levels. He has operational, tactical and strategic commander qualifications and experience, as well as having been a National Interagency Liaison Officer (NILO), an accredited Communications Tactical Advisor and a trained debrief facilitator.

He has extensive experience of working within emergency preparedness roles, in both a single service and multi-agency context. Patrick has been involved in a number of high-profile incidents and events in Wales, both planned and spontaneous.

As a qualified teacher with over twenty years’ experience, he has taught major incident management to new recruits, command training to operational, tactical, and strategic commanders, as well as control room staff. He has also been a Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP) Trainer since the introduction of JESIP in 2013 and was the operational delivery lead for JESIP Training within his service and was instrumental in developing the roll out of multi-agency training to embed effective joint working principles across emergency responder organisations. He was part of the group who revised the third edition of the Joint Principles: The Interoperability Framework.

Patrick was seconded to a pan Wales EPRR role, working on behalf of the emergency services, to further the strategic EPRR agenda for almost four years, working with cross sector partners, including Government.

During this secondment, he worked on a pan Wales and UK level dealing with strategic EPRR issues, chairing a number of pan Wales groups, including the one responsible for the design, delivery, and review of pan Wales major incident training and exercising activity.

He is currently seconded to a pan Wales role, working on behalf of all emergency services in Wales, which involves risk management, contingency planning, resilience and security.

Patrick has a passion for teaching and staff development and is able to bring his experience in civil contingencies planning, response and recovery to emergencies to the classroom to assist in enhancing professional academic education of EPRR professionals.

Patrick is a member of the emergency planning society (EPS).

• Emergency Preparedness and Response
• Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP)
• Major Incident Training and Exercising
• Debriefing / Learning Lessons

• Emergency Preparedness and Response
• Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP)
• Major Incident Training and Exercising
• Debriefing / Learning Lessons

• Command
• Multi-agency working
• Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP)