Support for UkraineMental Health Training for Businesses, Organisations and Schools
Our Mental Health & Wellbeing courses are ideal for managers and front line staff who are supporting others, whether it be service users or colleagues. They are also useful for strengthening employee wellbeing and improving mental health within your workplace. Research has shown that employers see a return of £5.30 on average for every £1 invested in staff wellbeing (Deloitte, 2022), so providing your staff with training in Mental Health & Wellbeing is a great way to invest in your business and improve productivity.
How will you benefit from Mental Health & Wellbeing courses?
Whether you want to boost the wellbeing of your team or train your staff in understanding mental health, our expert and well qualified tutors can deliver a variety of courses to suit your needs. Your staff will learn about the causes of mental health issues, signs and symptoms to look out for and how to support those with mental health needs.
If you are a business or organisation looking for a course specifically tailored for your staff on a specific day and time, please contact us.
Alternatively, you can book onto our pre-programmed courses on the link below.
Explore the courses we offer below…
WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan)
2 hour workshop
During this session you will receive both group and individual support that will focus on developing and embedding strategies to help protect and maintain wellbeing and mental health. Whether this be to better manage stress or anxiety, build and strengthen confidence and self-esteem or to improve wellbeing and support while working from home. This session will help you to start reflecting on what is important to you and how to activate these thoughts into more positive behaviours.
Topics will include:
- What is wellbeing
- WRAP and the 5 Key Recovery Concepts
- Applying and embedding WRAP for ourselves and others
- Understand the acceptance of positive self-care
- Apply and adapt your WRAP to different areas of your life.
We have pre-programmed WRAP courses running throughout and we can also create bespoke courses to suit the needs of an organisation.
Awareness of Mental Health
6 hour session
During this session you will receive both group and individual support that will focus on better understanding mental ill health.
Topics will include:
- What is mental health vs mental ill health
- What might increase the risk of becoming mentally unwell
- Exploring several different mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, eating disorders and stress
- Understanding and exploring strategies to strengthen and maintain mental wellness
- How to support someone experiencing
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
6 x 2 hour or 4 x 3 hour sessions
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an internationally recognised training course which teaches people how to spot the signs and symptoms of mental ill health and provide help on a first aid basis. Through a blend of 6 x 2 hour or 4 x 3 hour instructor-led live (face to face or online) sessions and self-learning activities, this practical skills and awareness course is designed to give you:
- A deeper understanding of mental health and the factors that can affect a person’s wellbeing, including your own
- Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues
- Confidence to step in, reassure and support a person in distress
- Enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgemental listening
- Knowledge to help someone recover their health by guiding them to appropriate support
MHFA England training won’t teach you to be a therapist, but just like physical first aid, it will teach you to listen, reassure and respond, even in a crisis.
Understanding Mental Health Level 3
Level 3 Understanding Mental Health NCFE CACHE Certificate
This qualification is designed to increase your knowledge and understanding of mental health and mental well-being. Successful completion of the required units will allow you to develop in-depth knowledge and understanding of mental health. It will also support progression into relevant employment within the health and social care sector. This qualification will focus on the study of mental health and mental well-being to support different occupational areas, and offer breadth and depth of study, incorporating a key core of knowledge and understanding. The objectives of this qualification are to help you to understand:
- Mental health legislation, services and public attitudes and how these have evolved
- How to support mental well-being through various stages of life
- Mental ill-health, treatment options available and the potential consequences of mental ill-health
- The skills required to work in a mental health service
This is a distance learning qualification course where you will use an e-learning package and complete assessment activity electronically. You will be supported by a tutor who will provide feedback (electronically) on your progress and will suggest other learning activities to help you develop the knowledge and understanding you require to successfully complete the qualification.
To learn more about our Mental Health & Wellbeing Academy watch the video below by our tutor, Marie Clare…
Why choose Skills & Learning?
Skills & Learning: Adult Community Education (ACE) is a top preforming provider nationally, previously shortlisted for provider of the year in the prestigious Times Education awards.
We have over 200 expert teaching and learning staff qualified in over 100 subjects. Each tutor has a minimum of 3 years’ experience, although the average industry experience of our tutors is around 21 years, the majority with recent practice. Some are masters in their craft, whilst others have won awards relevant to their field, exhibited or had their work published. Many run their own businesses alongside their tutor roles.
