Matt England
Head of the National JESIP Team
Matt joined the team as National Delivery Manager in February 2025 and became Head of the National JESIP Team in September 2025. He has a 30-plus year background in emergency nursing, including voluntary service, and ambulance services, including as a Paramedic.
He has worked in Emergency Departments in North West London, Brighton and overseas, and as Head of Emergency Planning at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. In 2009 he joined South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) to build and manage the Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) and since then has had various challenging roles including implementing the major trauma system and improving heart attack pathways.
Matt has also worked as the Emergency Services Collaboration Manager and oversaw the implementation of a range of activities including Joint Response Units and, Fire Service co-responding. He has also gained a post graduate qualification in Collaboration and Public Service Transformation. In 2022 Matt took up the role as Emergency Preparedness Manager for the Sussex area of SECAmb. Matt has been a keen advocate of JESIP since its inception and has applied the principles practically on many occasions, including planned events such as Brighton Pride, and at emergencies including the Shoreham air crash and Surrey-wide area flooding, and especially through his work as a Tactical Advisor and NILO.
Chanel Hendricks-Lynch
Team Leader in the National Team
We’ve been delighted to recently welcome Chanel Hendricks-Lynch as our new Team Leader in the National Team. Chanel joins on secondment from the London Fire Brigade (LFB), where she has more than 22 years of operational service, most recently as a Station Officer.
She has wide experience of working in Operational Resilience and Control, on the frontline within Service Delivery, and as a trainer within the LFB Service Standards Support Team. Chanel has also been involved in major event planning for the Brigade, including the coronation of King Charles III and the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
In her JESIP role, Chanel is managing our team of specialist service practitioners, leading our programme of assurance visits, and overseeing Joint Organisational Learning (JOL) among other responsibilities.
Daniel Forman
Communications and Engagement Lead
Dan is a communications and strategy consultant, specialising in home affairs and social policy. He is currently working with JESIP, the National Police Chiefs Council and Counter Terrorism Policing. He previously worked in the Civil Service and as a journalist, and has also worked for the Bank of England and UK Sport, as well as on a number of independent inquiries and reviews.
Inspector Jo Molyneux
Training and Exercising Lead
Jo has 21 years of policing experience having joined Essex Police in 2003. She has worked in a variety of roles both as a Detective and on the front line. Jo has spent the last 5 years as a Local Policing Inspector. Jo is now seconded full time to the JESIP Team and is leading work on Testing and Exercising.
Katie McCallum
Katie joins us from Hertfordshire Constabulary as Business Support Officer. Katie has been in policing since 2011, having joined as an apprentice at the age of 16. She has worked within Human Resources and as a PA for a number of Senior Leaders, including Gold Commanders working on major incidents. As Business Support Officer Katie will play a central role in our programme management, resource planning, risk register and governance, as well as several other crucial roles.
Alex Perks
Alex is an experienced police officer who joins as our policing specialist service practitioner. He joined the City of London Police in 1996 and transferred to Hertfordshire Constabulary in 1999, where he was worked on operations planning, including for several major events, and as an Eastern regional training lead. Alex has also worked as a CBRN tactical adviser and loves working in partnership with counterparts from other services.
Ben Wooders
Ben joins as our fire service specialist practitioner from the London Fire Brigade. He is a Level One Incident Commander in the LFB and most recently served as a Command Unit Team Leader in the borough of Lewisham. He regularly supports the chairs of multi-agency meetings at high profile incidents and is passionate about multi-agency working. Prior to joining the Brigade he previously served in the British Army for 15 years, including as a Search and Counter IED specialist.
Chris Attfield
Chris is our Ambulance service specialist practitioner, joining in July 2025 from the South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb).
Chris joined the ambulance service in 1988, becoming a paramedic in 1992. He has always served in West Sussex, where he has worked in different roles during his career, most recently as part of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT). He has been a champion for road safety, working alongside Sussex Police and West Sussex Fire and Rescue. He is trained in both operational and tactical commander roles.
Out of work, Chris is a keen motorsport fan and is part of the British touring car medical team.
