Jack Bailey

Tasks: Wildlife Surveys, Report Writing, Data Analysis, GIS Mapping, Risk Assessment, Client Liaison.

Skills Used: Teamwork & Communication, Time-management, Technical Writing, Species Identification, Statistical Analysis and Interpretation, Software Skills, Fieldwork Skills, Legislative Knowledge.

Collaborating with a team of 27 Ecologists, I provided consultancy services to construction industry developers. I led bat emergence surveys and wrote and contributed to reports such as preliminary ecological appraisals and ecological impact assessments. Once, while conducting data analysis, I noticed the PCs were overloaded, causing a data backlog. I coordinated with the team to identify and remove obsolete projects, enabling analysis to continue and ensuring timely report delivery to clients.

• Tasks: Land management.
• Skills Used: Teamworking, scything, use of heavy tools.
• On one occasion while scything meadow grass I discovered a nest of field voles, and immediately notified the team leader to ensure the safety of the nest. I helped to repair fences between stakeholder and Trust land to maintain good relations.

• Tasks: Customer payments & care, dog grooming, kennel/cattery cleaning, animal exercise/feeding, administering medication, kennel maintenance.
• Skills Used: Teamworking, money responsibility, timely intervention, creating work plans.
• With 60 dogs and 20 cats I learned good workload planning and coordinated my efforts with the team. On occasions when payment machines broke I persevered to fix the problem, but if it persisted I referred it to my managers. I reported maintenance issues such as frayed hatch wiring or broken cattery stairs and immediately informed my manager and arranged my workload through my team to address repairs.

• Tasks: Ensuring resident safety and privacy, cleaning and sanitising resident rooms and bathrooms.
• Skills Used: Teamworking, health and safety preparedness, handling cleaning equipment including harsh chemicals, calmness under pressure.
• With up to 35 residents with Alzheimer's or dementia I learned empathy and resilience. On a number of occasions I faced verbal abuse from residents, but remained calm, notified the nurses and managers and continued my work. Once, I calmed a resident down by handing them familiar items such as teddy bears to improve their mood.

• Tasks: Cleaning and sanitising animal pens.
• Skills Used: Teamworking, attention to detail, independent working, independent research.
• With a variety of animals undergoing rehabilitation such as deer, foxes, swans, and more, I researched the individual needs for each species, including habitat and nutrition.