Mental Health Awareness Training for Carers and Nurses

This IIRSM approved Mental Health Awareness Training for Carers and Nurses aims to break the stigma surrounding mental-ill health in the care industry. It also contains extra resources and a wellbeing toolkit to manage day-to-day mental health.

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A patient and their carer talking - Mental Health in Care

Learning outcomes

Learn how to take positive steps to remove stigma surrounding mental health
Understand the mental and emotional impact poor mental health can have on care workers
Know where to go for support and learn what you can do on a daily basis to improve your mental health

Covered in this course

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 4 sections

1 Mental Health in Care
2 Mental Health Problems
3 Wellbeing toolkit
4 External Help

SECTION 1

Being the daily witness to the realities of poor mental and physical health has a huge emotional impact that isn’t always addressed by the worker or their organisation. This is one of the leading factors for a high prevalence of mental-ill health in the care sector. In this section, we look at the importance of training, common triggers for poor mental health

SECTION 2

In this section, we’ll be raising awareness of common mental health problems, particularly anxiety and depression. But we’ll also be looking at how stress and loneliness can have a big influence on your mental health. If you’re interested in learning more, this section also has extra information on a small number of the other common mental illnesses!

SECTION 3

This section is your Wellbeing Toolkit that can help you look after your mental health on a daily basis. We appreciate that everyone has their own ideas about how to approach their mental health and wellbeing, so this section has a variety of insights, mini exercises, recommendations and some food for thought so you can use what suits you.

SECTION 4

If your wellbeing is becoming a top priority for you, and you feel like you need extra support, there’s plenty of avenues you can go down - or even suggest to your family, friends and colleagues if they need some guidance. This section provides some useful external resources that you may wish to use to aid your wellbeing.

About this course

The sad truth is that workers in the care sector have a suicide rate almost twice as high as the national average. Additionally, workers in this sector are vulnerable to a variety of mental health issues.

In fact, 84% of carers report that they feel stressed, 78% report suffering from anxiety, and 55% report that they have suffered from depression as a result of their work - care workers mental wellbeing isn’t always addressed or even considered by their employer.

Workers in the profession have some of the most emotionally challenging jobs imaginable. Caring for vulnerable people themselves, they often prioritise other's mental wellbeing over their own.

Our Mental Health Awareness Training for Carers and Nurses is broken down into 4 easy-to-follow and beautifully animated sections which aim to educate learners on the various types of mental health problems, the science behind our thinking, and where to go to for external help. The course is suitable for anybody working in the care sector, including doctors, nurses, carers, youth workers, social care workers, therapists, charity workers and volunteers.

Find out more about mental health in our free white paper on mental ill-health in UK workplaces & ISO 45003 & wellbeing at work.

Presented by

Nadira Tudor

The importance of Mental Health Awareness Training for Carers and Nurses

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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Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

This Mental Health Awareness Training for Carers and Nurses 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 Carers and Nurses 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.

Mental Health Awareness Training for Care Workers Certificate

37 real user reviews

5.0 out of 5

You are important too.

Tracey James on 13 September 2021

Having had lived experience with MH issues, I found this course underpinned the work I've done to manage this, there is useful tips to maintain positive MH and highlights the importance of asking for help - its not a sign of weakness, its a sign of strength, mental resilience and learning, knowing when change is necessary and being kind to yourself.

Great

Lesley Lestrange on 9 September 2021

Great course ease of use very informative well done