Description
TWO DAY COURSE
This course is tailored to develop an understanding of the best approaches to support, reassure, and guide colleagues toward professional support. Moreover, candidates will develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence necessary to actively foster positive mental health within their workplace.
This qualification is ideal for mental health champions/first aiders, human resources personnel, managers, supervisors, and team leaders, providing them with the tools and insights to effectively promote mental health awareness and support in the workplace.
COST: £270.00 (plus vat).
WHAT’S COVERED
- Understanding mental health and its importance
- The roles and responsibilities for mental health in the workplace
- Importance of own wellbeing as a mental health first aider
- Common mental health conditions, including:
– Characteristics and features
– Work-related stress
– Anxiety
– Eating disorders
– Depression
– Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
– Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
– Phobias
– Bipolar
– Self-harm
– Psychosis
– Suicide - Promoting positive mental health first aid in the workplace
– Best practice for employers
– Mental health first aid at work action plan
– Appropriate coping strategies - How employers can provide support to employees in the workplace
– Assisting those off work or returning to work - Procedures to support employees who are off work whilst experiencing poor mental health
- Types of support available both locally and nationally
