This Supporting Staff Through Mental Health online course looks at the six main factors affecting mental health and wellbeing at work and how you can support your employees’ mental health. It defines mental health, looks at the symptoms, the impact of it, legislation and how to devise an action plan to promote mental wellbeing in the workplace.

By completing this course, delegates will be able to:
•    Define mental health and the key influencing factors.
•    Identify the symptoms of a range of common mental health issues.
•    Describe the impact of mental health issues on the workplace.
•    Summarise the legislation associated with mental health at work
•    Devise an action plan as to how to promote mental wellbeing in your workplace and support your staff.

Who should attend?

This course is suitable for anyone who would like to support and understand their employees’ mental health. It’s particularly suitable for leaders, managers, supervisors and HR professionals.

Pre-requisites

There are no specific entry requirements for this course.

Course content

This course covers:

•    Introduction
•    What is mental health?
•    Types of mental illness
•    Business impacts
•    Legislation
•    Workplace wellbeing

Duration

The Supporting Staff Through Mental Health takes around one hour to complete. But, as eLearning is self-paced, it depends entirely on your individual learning speed and how quickly you absorb the study material.

Assessment

There is no assessment for this course.

Outcome / Next Steps

A certificate will be provided upon successful completion of the course.

For those wishing to further their knowledge, Make UK provide a range health and safety courses. Please contact us to learn more.

Delivery method

Online, or eLearning, programmes can be studied at any time, from anywhere, from any device. For this course, you will have 3 months to complete the training.

You can register up to 10 people for Learning when you book online. If you have more than 10 delegates to register, please contact us to discuss multi-delegate eLearning service.

Benefits of Supporting Staff Through Mental Health course

For the learner
•    Obtain valuable knowledge and skills
•    Help keep yourself and others safe at work
•    Supports academic and career progression

For the business
•    Ensure your organisation has valuable in-house expertise
•    Protect your people from harm
•    Demonstrate your commitment to health and safety, which can help win business

More details

This course is provided by our trusted partner Virtual College.

Supporting Staff Through Mental Health