Mental Health First Aid for the Workplace

Understanding Mental Health for the Workplace

QA Level 2 Award

Understanding Mental Health in the Workplace (Level 2, RQF)

1 Day

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The QA Level 2 Award in Understanding Mental Health in the Workplace (RQF) is a regulated and nationally recognised qualification that has been specifically designed to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of common mental health conditions in the workplace and how best to offer support and guidance to colleagues.

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This training and workshop can increase the understanding of common mental health conditions, raise its awareness in the workplace, help reduce the stigma associated with Mental Health at work and provide guidance on how to signpost to professional help.

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Offering this training can demonstrate to employees you care and empower them to feel supported in the workplace. Raising awareness of Mental Health in the workplace makes it easier to recognise when someone is struggling, promotes a proactive support system and develops a culture where wellbeing and mental health are discussed and shared.

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This day is great as an introduction to Mental Health in the workplace and supports increased awareness, education and most importantly opens a conversation around mental health.

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What is covered?

• Understanding mental health

• Identifying role and responsibilities of those associated with mental health in the workplace

• Promoting positive mental health in the workplace

• Common mental health conditions including:

                                Work related stress

                                Anxiety

                                Eating disorders

                                Depression

                                Suicide

                                Psychosis

                                Anxiety Disorder

Self Harm

• Features of a work Action Plan

• Legislation associated with Mental Health in the workplace

 MHFA in the Workplace

QA Level 3 Award

Mental Health First Aid in the Workplace (Level 3,RQF)

2 day

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Did you know 1 in 4 people in the UK are likely to experience mental health problems each year?

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Mental health is just as important as physical health, yet whilst we know how to take care of our own physical health, many people do not know how to support relatives, friends and even colleagues who are experiencing poor mental health.

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By developing a greater understanding of common mental health issues, as well as how best to support and guide someone to professional help, you can help further reduce the stigma associated with mental health in the UK.

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The QA Level 3 Award in Mental Health First Aid in the Workplace (RQF) is a regulated and nationally recognised qualification that has been specifically designed for those who would like to raise their awareness of mental health, develop an understanding on how best to support, reassure and signpost colleagues to professional support.

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What’s more, candidates will develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to actively promote positive mental health within their workplace, making it an ideal qualification for mental health champions/first aiders, human resources, managers, supervisors and team leaders.

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What is 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

  •  Suicide

  • Psychosis

  • Self-harm

  • Phobias o Bipolar

  • Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

  • Depression

  • Eating disorders

  • Anxiety

  • Work-related stress.

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Promoting positive mental health first aid in the workplace

• Best practice for employers 

• Mental health first aid at work action plan

• Appropriate coping strategies

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How employers can provide support to employees in the workplace

• Assisting those off work or returning to work

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Procedures to support employees who are off work whilst experiencing poor mental health.

Types of support available both locally and nationally

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Certificate valid for 3 years Ofqual regulated