My training can cover whatever topics in mental health the commissioner wishes it to. These include:-
- What are mental health and mental distress?
- Signs and symptoms of common and less common mental health problems
- Up-to-date research about the impact of mental health in the workplace
- Barriers to talking about mental health at work and how to overcome them
- How organisations can promote mental well-being for all staff
- Organisational structures and job roles that carry particular risks to mental health at work
- Responding effectively to callers or clients who are experiencing mental distress
- The Equality Act 2010 and the legal obligations it places on organisations
- How mental health problems become manifest at work
- Stress: what it is, how to talk about it and how to help staff to identify and manage it more effectively
- Ways to improve the openness of discussions about mental health at work
- Strategies to support staff who are experiencing mental distress to remain at work
- Support staff who are on sickness absence to successfully return to work
- Recognising and actively reducing ‘presenteeism’
- Best practice around performance management when an employee has a mental health problem
- Counselling and coaching skills
- Effective approaches to difficult conversations
- Strategies for staff to better manage their own mental health in modern, fast-paced working environments, including remote working
Sample course outlines give potential purchasers some ideas for their own course.
Mental health at work training 