Date
Wednesday 16 October
,
09:30
–
Thursday 17 October
,
16:30
Sessions
This course consists of two full-day classroom sessions:
- Wednesday 16th October 2024, 09:30 – 16:30
- Thursday 17th October 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
Great training
Considering the topic of mental health first aid Annie made the training informative, yet it was also an enjoyable experience. Annie made it inter-active and wasn’t just following a power-point presentation. I have come away with a huge amount of knowledge to take back to my workplace.
Viv Sheppard
HR & Wellbeing Manager
Derby
A good start
A good start to mental health issues. I work with a lot of people with social anxiety and was hoping to gain more info on this topic but understand it may be a bit niche. I have definitely upskilled by attending this course.
Patrick Broome
Manager
Leicestershire
Fantastic!
I had a very friendly and welcoming atmosphere when I attended the mental health first aid course. The lunch was wonderful and tea and coffee was always available. I would recommend Loates Management Training every time for your training needs.
Kirsty Barnes
Finance Assistant
Swadlincote, Derbyshire
The MHFA Two Day course is superb
The MHFA Two Day course is superb. The Loates trainer delivered the course in a relaxed and enjoyable manner, engaging everybody and making difficult subjects very easy to discuss and learn about. The practical exercises were actually fun but with a serious point, the Hearing Voices one really brought home to me how some people suffer. The course covers depression and anxiety, suicide, psychosis and gives you a framework to use to help people. The course book is huge, well produced and contains more detailed information than you need for the course, you take it away and dip in it at your leisure. Loates training rooms allowed for small group work and large discussions with large screen and good sound.
This course opened my eyes to what people go through, and that many people are affected. Everyone was open which added to the learning atmosphere. I recommend this course to everyone, all levels and all roles. The more we talk, the stronger we all are.
Belinda Leicester
Consultant
Derby
Mental Health First Aid training; a great investment.
I recently attended the 2-day Mental Health First Aid training at Loates Management Training and am really pleased I did. Sometimes it’s hard to allow yourself two days ‘off work’ and invest in your own development, but I’m glad I did. Apart from increasing my knowledge about mental health, the training has given me the confidence to approach staff about mental health, the focus to further invest in mental health awareness and – as a great bonus – the importance of self-care was a great reminder.
P.S. The training room in Loates’ new facility in Darley Mills is fantastic too – onsite parking and a stroll in the park at break time.
Francoise Derksen
HR Manager
Swadlincote, 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
Nottinghamshire Hospice
We’re the leading charitable provider of palliative and end of life care in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. We offer support where it might seem there is no hope and we provide care at times and places you thought would not be possible. We listen to your fears, help you cope and bring realistic hope that tomorrow can be a better day. We’ve partnered with Loates to host Nottingham 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
Please see our
on-demand training catalogueRelated Scheduled Courses