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Mental Health Awareness Training for Carers and Nurses
This 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.
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.
Alternative languages available. Check our translation page if you require an alternative language.
Key features
- Take positive steps towards removing the stigma surrounding mental health
- Course translations readily available
- Stunning graphics and animation
- CPD Accredited
- Printable certificate upon completion
Covered in this course
The Mental Health Awareness Training for Carers and Nurses course is broken down into 4 sections.
1) Mental Health in Care
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
2) Mental Health Problems
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!
3) Wellbeing toolkit
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.
4) External Help
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.
Test & certificate
Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Mental Health Awareness Training for Care Workers course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires 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 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.
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Statistics surrounding mental health in care
Take a look at some of the shocking statistics surrounding ill-mental health in the care sector below...
- 84% of carers report feeling stressed
- 78% of carers suffer from anxiety
- 55% of carers report that they have suffered from depression as a result of their work
- Carers dying by suicide is almost twice the national average