Mental Health in the Workplace - Make it more than a tick-box Exercise
Build awareness, learn the skills and create the foundations of a mental health strategy to enable employee wellbeing
Nobody should be more than one call, one click, or one chat away from help
Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever
Key Benefits of this training include:
- Discover the fundamentals of mental health and the elements that influence our wellbeing in the workplace, home and community
- Establish the business case for mental health and build the foundations for embedding best practice into the employee life cycle
- Use emotional intelligence as a guide to explore the impact of stigma, our own attitudes and conflict styles in our personal and work roles, and the potential to harm or support recovery
- Explore depression and anxiety, and touch on other mental health conditions and how they might manifest themselves at work and home, and even in our customers
- Promote early intervention by learning to spot the signs of mental distress, provide initial support and signposting
- Confront the myths surrounding suicide and understand the value of human connection in reducing risk
- Apply the MHFA Champions ‘ALGEE’ action plan using case studies
- Gain insights to ensure both customer care and self-care is maintained when front-line teams encounter challenging behaviours associated with mental health issues
- Examine a range of frameworks and toolkits and identify the fundamental elements to build an authentic approach for introducing a mental health strategy into your unique workplace
Why this training is crucial for your organisation :
On this two-day workshop you will gain insight into mental health, which we all have, as well as mental health conditions, and how they might manifest themselves in the workplace and home. Along with best practice and traps to avoid, you will practise how you as individuals can role-model the most powerful techniques – supportive conversations, non-judgemental listening and self-care.
You’ll take away a step-by-step framework to give you the building blocks for implementing a strategy in your workplace, with authenticity as a guide. This workshop includes the one-day Mental Health First Aid Champions workshop, endorsed by Public Health England, which will run as per MHFA guidelines to ensure accreditation. You will receive an MHFA workbook and manual as well as additional resources for you and your workplace. MHFA England send out an e-certificate from approximately 6 weeks after the course.
Who should attend?
- Occupational Health
- Health and Safety
- HSE
- Human Resources
- Managers, Directors, VPs, and Heads
Participant Testimonials
"The facilitator’s training style is very engaging and the mix between knowledge sharing and practical exercises was exactly right. We were given some excellent tools and tips which have helped us get on the right track for our drive towards creating better awareness and care for mental health in the workplace."
HR Consultant, Ecrebo
"Encouraged people to think differently about their own and other’s health. It encouraged me to be more empathetic"
Safety Manager, Network Rail
"We addressed difficult topics but the trainer enabled us to build confidence with the discussions and activities, and created a comfortable helpful atmosphere to learn"
Senior Policy Officer, Woking Borough Council