Jack Formby Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Wakefield, England, United Kingdom

Hull, England, United Kingdom

• Delivering emotional support to people in despair using valuable communication skills.
• Exploring stressful thoughts or feelings in a judge free manner
• Listening to callers who may feel suicidal and offering help with care and compassion.

Hull, England, United Kingdom

• Recently acted as a mental health support worker full time.
• Developed close professional relationships with residents living with mental health conditions such as paranoid schizophrenia and personality disorder.
• Established each resident’s specific needs and helped meet those needs in the most appropriate way following all policies and procedures.
• Supported and encouraged all residents to administer their own medication and ensured any discrepancy or error was reported as soon as possible.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

• Received basic Officer military training including how to perform first aid while in an unfamiliar situation under pressure.
• Developed leadership, teamwork and communication skills through leading section attacks in a simulated environment.
• Improved discipline and commitment levels by attending regular field weekends.
• Followed orders and reported to those in command maintaining integrity and respect.

Hull, England, United Kingdom

• Shadowed a GP in his local surgery where I learned the importance of treating every patient equally with care and compassion.
• Shadowed an ODP Nurse on an ICU Ward in which I saw the planning and commitment needed to deliver treatment plans to those in critical condition.
• Spent time shadowing the A&E team and helped with oxygen delivery where I became aware of keeping calm under pressure while treating complex injuries.
• Shadowed anaesthetists during surgeries, learning how good teamwork and communication is essential to ensure operations are successful.
• Participated in the mental health first aid lite course which taught me how everyone is susceptible to mental illness and therefore ways to improve my own and other people’s health and wellbeing.
• Attended a day dedicated to the awareness of dementia including how to successfully care and communicate with patients.

Kenya

• Volunteered in Kenya as part of a UK Government funded programme developing independence and the ability to adapt to new surroundings by living with a local family.
• Enhanced communication and leadership skills through teaching employability and life skills to 70 disadvantaged youths aged 18 – 25 years old.
• Supported development work on the ground and efforts to build a legacy of active citizenship.
• Raised awareness on key issues in the community such as gender-based violence, disability and conservation which required high levels of planning and teamwork.
• Received training on topics including SDGs, facilitation skills and how to teach life skills.

Pgcert, Low Intensity Psychological Interventions

Master Of Science - Ms, Psychology Conversion

Bsc, Physiology, General

Activities and Societies: Treasurer of the University Table Tennis Club • Researching, analysing and conducting a 5000 word final year.

A Levels, Biology, Chemistry, Maths, Epq

Gcses, 11 A*-C