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Mental Health Awareness Training for Managers
This IIRSM approved Mental Health Awareness Training for Managers is designed to make management teams aware of mental health issues and illnesses inside and outside the workplace. It provides wellbeing-management techniques and aims to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health at work.
4.7/5 based on 769 course reviews
Learning outcomes
- Learn the importance of providing good working conditions for your team and how poor mental health can negatively impact a business
- Learn how to take positive steps to remove stigma surrounding mental ill-health
- Learn what to look out for in employees and changes in behaviour and signs people are experiencing poor mental health
Covered in this course
Course contents
This training course is broken down into 5 sections
- 1 Mental Health Awareness
- 2 Mental Health Problems
- 3 Wellbeing Toolkit
- 4 Tips for Management
- 5 External Help
SECTION 1
This section provides a complete overview of mental health and raises awareness about removing stigma, the importance of good mental health and the common triggers of poor mental health. It also provides an insight into what can influence negative thought patterns, which are proven to impact productivity levels.
SECTION 2
How do you go about managing poor mental health? Particularly things like loneliness, stress, depression or anxiety? We give you guidance and practical tips on how to do so, and we look at changes in staff behaviour and what to watch out for. Section 2 also has additional resources that provide handy overviews of other mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder and personality disorders.
SECTION 3
Here is your very own Wellbeing Toolkit that can be used to manage day-to-day mental health! It offers a variety of mini exercises, insights, practical strategies and some food for thought - so you can use whatever suits you!
SECTION 4
This section looks deeper into how poor mental health can impact businesses and the importance of providing good working conditions. We look at the importance of having a 'mental health at work plan', making workplace adjustments when needed and we also show you how to effectively monitor staff wellbeing at regular intervals.
SECTION 5
In this final section, we've created a 'hub' for external mental health management. It offers great starting points for improving wellbeing, information on external books, websites, apps and helplines.
About this course
Poor mental health is a very serious issue at work. It can have a huge impact on productivity and it can create a negative working environment. Management teams have a duty to recognise and acknowledge poor mental health and they must know how to deal with a variety of situations relating to the topic.
This Mental Health Awareness Training for Managers raises awareness of mental health and it explains different working practices that management can use to offer support to colleagues. It also provides simple and effective tools that can be used on a daily basis for management to enhance both their own and their employee's mental health.
It's not only a moral responsibility to take care of one another at work... it makes financial sense too. For every £1 that an organisation invests in improving the mental health of their staff, they see an average of a £5 return!
Download our free Mental Health & ISO 45003 White Paper today to gain a better understanding of Mental Ill-Health in UK workplaces.
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Nadira TudorThe importance of Mental Health Awareness Training for Managers
It’s important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.
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Mental Health Awareness certificate
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Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Mental Health Awareness Training for Managers course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your Mental Health Awareness Training for Managers Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
769 real user reviews
Nice easy bite-sized presentations
could you get rid of that annoying 'tangle' animation? it reminds me of the onset of a migraine and I can't look at the screen when it comes on.
I found this course excellent really goo
There was was a period of time in my life when I suffered with depression I wish I had a tool like this at that time to help me to deal with life struggles thank you
Very thought provoking
Very thought provoking and maybe would have been good idea to have gone out to people within the 1st 6mths-year of going into lockdown
Very helpful
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Good course
Found this really useful and relevant as I suffered a period of psychosis back last year, still on medication and having weekly meetings with the Early Intervention team.
some of the slides were quite obvious.
The first half seemed to be aimed at those suffering with ,mental health and how they can manage it, which then didn't feel relevant to how I can manage individuals in my team. It was quite low brow/patronising - being told to think of happy thoughts instead of negative ones. I did find it helpful to have a well being action plan in place where both the team member and manager can work together. Unfortunately for my situation, working together on such a plan is not possible as HR are dealing with the issue.
Interseting course
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Excellent overview
This is an excellent overview to Mental Health Awareness as well as a knowledge guide for managers. Presentations, topics, links, advice, tips and downloads are very good.
Why is this training important?
Business benefits
According to the HASAWA 1974, employers must “so far as is reasonably practicable” protect the health & safety of their employees by removing or reducing risks in the workplace.
If someone has a mental illness for over 12 months and they can show that it’s causing them disadvantages at work, it can be classed as a disability. This means the employee is protected by the Equality Act if colleagues or their employer were to discriminate against them because of their mental illness. Employers are legally required to make reasonable adjustments to support employees with mental illnesses at work. However, even if it’s not classed as a disability, management should always offer all the support they can.
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