Date
Wednesday 6 November
,
09:30
–
Thursday 7 November
,
16:30
Sessions
This course consists of two full-day classroom sessions:
- Wednesday 6th November 2024, 09:30 – 16:30
- Thursday 7th November 2024, 09:30 – 16:30
Outline
Overview
Accredited by Mental Health First Aid England this course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to confidently support mental health in the workplace and effectively guide a person towards the right mental health support.
Audience
This course is intended for those who have been assigned particular responsibility for supporting mental health within their workplace.
You don’t need any previous knowledge or experience of mental health issues or workplace wellbeing in order to participate.
Objectives
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Recognise how to keep themselves safe while performing their duties
- Describe the factors that can affect mental health and wellbeing
- Spot the triggers and signs of a range of mental health issues
- Confidently step in, reassure and support a person in distress using the Mental Health First Aid action plan
- Use listening and questioning skills to fully understand the person’s position
- Help signpost someone to further support
Content
This course covers:
- Understanding how to keep yourself safe while performing your duties
- Understanding mental health and the factors that can affect people’s wellbeing, including your own
- Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues
- Confidence to step in, reassure and support a person in distress
- Enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgement listening
- Helping someone recover their health by guiding them to appropriate support
Resources
You will be provided with the latest MHFA Manual which will be your comprehensive guide post course along with a handy pocket-sized reference guide.
Testimonials
MHFA
Overall very impressed. The course was well taught by Annie who was knowledgeable, funny, open and kind. I would recommend to anyone for the simple benefit to further their understanding of the invisible struggles of yourself and others around you. I feel more confident to be able to spot people who are struggling and more able to approach them to be of assistance where possible. The atmosphere made it feel like a safe space and meeting people and hearing others’ views and stories was also beneficial to the learning experience.
Thank you!
Liam Walters
Senior Technician, Chemistry
Denby, Derbyshire
Excellent training
I recently attended the 2-day MHFA course and it was a pleasure to have Annie as our instructor for the 2-days, you can tell that she has been delivering training for some years as she was very knowledgeable and comfortable in delivering the course subject matter. I envisaged the course to be very intense and PowerPoint driven but this was not the case there was plenty of interaction on the course with other attendees and chances to discuss our own experiences which really helps in linking everything together from the course content. Plus any instructor that brings a goodie basket will always be welcome. A thoroughly enjoyable course thank you again Annie.
Wesley Farrell
H&S Manager
Nottingham
5 star course
The course was 5 star, Annie put us at ease from the first minute and delivered the course superbly. she gave us time to take on board the information and didn’t try to bombard us with information.
every session of the course was explained and Annie got all the delegates involved and active in the day.
I enjoyed the course and now have some knowledge to use when helping people with their issues. Nothing was too much trouble for Annie so brilliant.
Must also add that the shortbread that Annie supplied was not only delicious it was M&S too.
I would recommend this course to anyone thank you for all your work in training people up to help those with mental health issues
Thank You
Alwyn Sears
Technical Maintenance Specialist
Denby, Derbyshire
Don’t be afraid
This course was offered by Loates Management Training and I’m very glad I booked onto it.
This course is a must for those that feel they are afraid to approach and offer support to a person with a mental health issue for fear of ‘getting it wrong’.
The course builds on your strength as a listener and teaches skills to support and help those around you whether at work or at home or even yourself when you are struggling with every day problems and pressures.
Amanda Bryant
HR Manager
Burton-on-Trent
Excellent Course
Loates Management Training have fantastic offices in Darley Abbey Mills, which were perfect for holding the training course.
The course instructor was very knowledgeable and delivered the 2 day course well. The course itself was informative, it helped increase awareness of mental health, the importance of having positive mental health, and the difficulties people can experience when they have poor mental health.
Having completed the course, I’m now better equipped to spot poor mental health and know how best to approach and support this in the workplace.
Dean Kellogg
Business Manager
Belper, Derbyshire
Questions?
Not sure if this is the right course for you?
Just get in touch to arrange an informal chat with the course instructor themselves!
Instructor
Annie Litchfield
Throughout my training career (which now spans more than 20 years!) I’ve always been chasing the same dream: to feed my passion for helping others. I aim to bring a vibrancy and exuberance no matter what my role is – from small, family run businesses to multi-national corporations, my experience covers a whole host of sectors and sizes.
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Venue
Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People
Rainbows cares for hundreds of families every year who have a baby, child or young person with a serious or terminal illness that means that their lives will be shorter than most. We’ve partnered with Loates to host Loughborough delivery of their Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) courses.
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Organiser
Loates Workplace Wellbeing
We’re the arm of Loates Business Solutions that’s specifically focussed on workplace wellbeing. We cover both the mental and physical aspects of occupational health, and are responsible for delivering accredited Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training.
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On-Demand Delivery
In addition to our public scheduled courses, we also offer the option of on-demand private training that’s exclusive to your organisation.
This can provide a particularly convenient and cost-effective solution if you have a large number of staff members to train.
And it’s also tremendously flexible.
Since on-demand courses only have your delegates attending, we can customise them to be specific to the policies and processes of your organisation, and tailor course lengths and depths to suit your particular needs. Likewise, we can combine material from several existing courses, develop fully bespoke content, or combine multiple courses into full programmes of training.
And we can deliver this training whenever and wherever is best for you; in-house at your venue, at one of our training venues, somewhere else entirely, online, or any combination of these.
For an idea of the types of on-demand training that we can provide, just take a look at our on-demand training catalogue.
To find out more about our on-demand delivery options, please contact us to arrange an informal chat with one of our friendly and down-to-earth training instructors.
On-Demand Equivalent
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on-demand training catalogueRelated Scheduled Courses