First Aid for Mental Health

Classroom (1 day course) or Virtual (3 x 2½ hour sessions)

Gives learners knowledge of Mental Health First Aid

Gives learners the skills to help those with mental health problems and improve mental health in the workplace

What is Mental Health?

Why people develop mental health conditions

What the role of a mental health first aider is

Knowing how to provide advice and practical support

Knowing how to recognise and manage stress

Understand the impact of substance abuse on mental health

Understand the first aid action plan for mental health and be able to put it in place

Know how to implement a positive mental health culture in the workplace

Recognising a range of mental health conditions:

Depression

Anxiety

Psychosis

Eating disorders

Suicide

Self-harm

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 full day Mental Health First Aid course gives a good grounding to help others in the workplace