Mental Health Matters for Teachers - Beginners Course
Provides leaders and staff wellbeing ambassadors with an understanding of common mental health illnesses and teaches how to support staff members and enhance personal wellbeing.
Leaders and ambassadors play a pivotal role in creating, modelling and sustaining the day to day practices that promote high levels of performance and wellbeing amongst staff in schools. This training is designed to provide:
Increased knowledge about common mental health conditions that arise in the workplace
Increased competence and confidence to address mental health and illness
An understanding of stigma and promoting zero tolerance of stigma of all kinds
How to support your own and others’ mental and emotional wellbeing, and know where the boundaries of their role lie
The course is created and delivered by our mental health lead, a medical Dr with a background in psychiatry and public health and a thought leader in the field of mental health, workplace wellbeing and the science that brings all these things together.
On demand E-learning
This flexible on-demand format enables people to watch at their own pace, in their own time and revisit any lesson as many times as they want. 3 hours of recorded content is included.
What is covered?
Making sense of mental health
Why bother? Financial, legal and moral reasons
What is “mental health” - myths, misunderstandings and what we can do about this
The illness-wellbeing continuum and three key messages
Examining stigma, where it comes from, what perpetuates it and what we can do about it
Understanding what can go wrong and what you can do
The role of stress and burnout in mental health, productivity and performance, the underlying science, the danger signs to look out for and good practices to minimise their occurrence
Psychological Safety and building trust
Easily implemented ways to take care of personal wellbeing, recover from challenging situations, model good work practices, and build a culture of Sustainable Workplace Prosperity.
Ways we label inner distress
Understanding anxiety, depression, addictive behaviours and conditions when people may be at immediate risk: the signs and symptoms to look out for
Managing for wellbeing
Listening and rapport: how to have constructive conversations with others who may be struggling
How to support someone who is/has been absent and is returning to work
What next: personal and organisational “next steps” to reduce mental ill-health, protect those who are struggling, eradicate stigma and promote wellbeing and success (SWP)