Patrick Rees

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

Patrick joined the NHS ambulance service in Wales in 1990 and progressed through a range of operational roles, including a paramedic and operational supervisor.

Since 2002, he has been involved in emergency preparedness, response, and recovery (EPRR) roles, principally as a Resilience Manager, 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.

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 JESIP Trainer since the introduction of JESIP in 2013 and was the operational delivery lead for JESIP Training within his service.

Between September 2018 and August 2021, he was seconded to a pan Wales emergency preparedness role, working on behalf of the emergency services, to further the strategic civil contingencies agenda and wider cross-service collaboration.

As part of this role, Patrick worked on a pan Wales basis and also at a UK level. He chaired 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 has extensive experience of working within emergency preparedness roles and has been involved in a number of high-profile incidents and events in Wales.

Patrick has a passion for teaching and staff development and is able to bring his wealth of experience in civil contingencies planning and response to emergencies to the classroom to assist in developing the next generation of emergency planners.

Patrick sits on the UK JESIP Interoperability Board that oversees JESIP activities in the UK and is subject to UK Ministerial oversight.  He worked as part of a project group reviewing the JESIP Joint Doctrine, Edition 3.

• 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)