Mental Health Training Courses

Description:

  • This course has been designed for First Aiders for Mental Health to refresh their skills and knowledge and to stay up to date with current events.

  • The course covers key topics from the regulated First Aid for Mental Health qualifications, including the signs and symptoms of mental health conditions, how to develop a first aid action plan for mental health and ways in which people can improve their general wellbeing.

  • A range of subjects are covered including:

    • What is first aid for mental health?

    • Stress

    • Mental health conditions

    • First aid action plan for mental health

    • Current external factors affecting mental health

    • Wellbeing

Topics Covered: Mental health, Wellbeing, Communication, Workplace, Supporting others

Numbers: Maximum of 16 candidates per course

Location: This course can be delivered on your site, subject to a pre-course assessment of your premises, reducing your costs in respect of additional time out and travelling.

This is also available online.

First Aid for Mental Health Annual Refresher Course

Description:

  • FAA Level 2 Award in First Aid for Mental Health (RQF)

  • Anyone can be affected by a mental health condition either themselves or a family member, friend or colleague.

  • This course is suitable for everyone but has been designed to help employers to provide a positive mental health culture within the workplace and to provide learners with comprehensive knowledge on a range of the most common mental health conditions and the skills to be able to act should a condition be suspected.

  • Learners undertaking this course will be considered First Aiders for Mental Health and be a point of contact within the workplace to help and support those with a suspected mental health condition.

  • Building on the Level 1/4 Award in Awareness of First Aid for Mental Health this course introduces the First Aid for Mental Health Action Plan which allows learners to provide their peers with comprehensive guidance and support for a suspected mental health condition. Learners will be able to provide signposting to professional help and support that person whilst they are receiving professional assistance.

  • This course also covers the effects of drugs and alcohol and provides learners with the skills and knowledge to assist employers in implementing a positive mental health culture to support employees within a workplace.

  • A range of subjects are covered including:

    • What is First Aid for Mental Health?

    • Identifying mental health conditions

    • Providing advice and starting a conversation

    • Drugs and alcohol

    • First Aid for Mental Health action plan

    • First Aid for Mental Health in the workplace

Topics Covered: Mental Health First Aid, Suicide, Communication, Workplace

Numbers: Maximum of 16 candidates per course

Location: This course can be delivered on your site, subject to a pre-course assessment of your premises, reducing your costs in respect of additional time out and travelling. This is also available online.

Mental Health First Aid (1 day)

Mental Health First Aid for Supervisors (2 days)

Kirsty Slack delivering a training course

Description:

  • A comprehensive course tailored for managers and supervisors, focusing on advanced techniques for supporting team members with mental health challenges, including suicide prevention and self-care.

  • FAA Level 3 Award in Supervising First Aid for Mental Health (RQF)

  • Anyone can be affected by a mental health condition either themselves or a family member, friend or colleague.

  • This course builds on the Level 2/5 Award in First Aid for Mental Health and covers a wider range of mental health conditions and goes into detail on the range of therapy and professional support that a person may be given by professional bodies during treatment for a mental health condition.

  • The course is suitable for all persons within a workplace but is aimed at those who hold a supervisory/managerial level position and who have responsibility for implementing a positive mental health culture and responsibility for First Aid for Mental Health within an organisation.

  • A range of subjects are covered including:

    • What is First Aid for Mental Health?

    • Identifying mental health conditions

    • Providing advice and starting a conversation

    • Drugs and alcohol

    • First Aid for Mental Health action plan

    • First Aid for Mental Health in the workplace

    • A large range of Mental Health conditions covered in detail

Topics Covered: Mental Health First Aid, Suicide, Communication, Workplace, Supporting others, Self-care

Numbers: Maximum of 16 candidates per course

Location: This course can be delivered on your site, subject to a pre-course assessment of your premises, reducing your costs in respect of additional time out and travelling. This is also available online.

Many more courses can be tailored and provided to meet your business needs. Please get in touch to discuss further.

Prices are per course and can be delivered to small or large groups face to face or via zoom or team platforms.

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