Highfield Level 1 Award in an Introduction to Mental Health and Wellbeing (RQF)

Course Contents

What is Mental Health?
What is Mental Ill Health
The difference between normal mental responses, and when a person needs help
Signs that mental health and wellbeing is deteriorating
Lifestyle choices that can affect mental health and mental wellbeing
How to take care of your own mental health and mental wellbeing
Coping strategies
How to support other people with their mental health and wellbeing
Knowing how to take care of one's own mental health and mental wellbeing, while helping other people with theirs
Sources of mental health and wellbeing support

Benefits of this course

37% of all work-related ill-health is due to mental health problems
Problems with mental health cover 45% of all working days lost
A whopping 12.8 million working days, or 49, 042 years, were lost due to mental health problems in 2018/19
602,000 workers suffered from work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2018/19
One in four people will have a mental health problem at some point during their lives
Whether work is causing or aggravating mental health problems, employers have a legal responsibility towards their employees
Work-related mental health issues must to be assessed to measure the levels of risk to staff
Where a risk is identified, steps must be taken to remove it or reduce it as far as reasonably practicable
This one day course gives people a good awareness of mental health and mental wellbeing, how to take care of yours and how to help others take care of their mental health and wellbeing

Accreditation

This Introduction to Mental Health and Wellbeing Course is a nationally recognised, Ofqual regulated qualification accredited by Highfield Qualifications.

This means that you can be rest assured that your Mental Health and Wellbeing Certificate is a very good way to make sure you and your employees have a supporting workplace to deal with staff's mental health and mental wellbeing.

The Ofqual Register number for this course is 603/6330/7