Mental Health in the Workplace Instructor Course

Course Information

• COURSE CODE 1008
• Course Duration: 2 Days Classroom with pre-study
• Course Location: Colchester, Essex
• Available on-site at your premises for groups of 8-12 delegates
• Course Price: £450 + VAT (Approved ProTrainings instructors who regularly certify a range of courses receive a £100 discount and access to training materials).
• If you are a registered instructor with ProTrainings please ask us for the discount code before booking online.
• If you are not a registered instructor with ProTrainings and would like more information please call us.

Assessment Methods

• Pre-study questions
• Continual Assessment
• Final test
• IQA assessment on first course delivered (various methods depending on your course progress)

Topics covered include:

• Understanding Mental Health
• Recognising and discussing different mental ill Health Problems
• Mental Health and legislation
• Understanding responsibilities in the workplace under mental health
• Recognising a problem
• Implementing the Management Standards Approach
• Supporting an employee with mental health related problems
• Promoting a healthy workplace

What is Included in your course

• Pre-study
• 2 day classroom training
• Endorsed Certification
• Approved ProTrainings Instructors who regularly certify a range of courses, will be provided with ProTrainings training materials for Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 Mental Health in the Workplace Courses by ProTrainings
• Other delegates will receive a printout of the course attended and other handouts used during their training.

Entry Requirements

• Level 3 Award in Education and Training minimum teaching qualification
• Delegates must be aged 18 or over

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the difference between mental health and mental ill health
• Understanding mental health and how it is defined 
• Describe how mental health affects human behaviour
• List abnormalities resulting from mental health 
• Describe the components of mental well-being 
• Be able to provide examples of well-being 
• Recognise ideals that relate to resilience
• Understand how to maximise well-being in the workplace
• Identify the risk factors associated with mental ill health problems 
• List risk factors that are caused from mental health 
• Be able to identify common, known or historical factors that can cause the risk of mental health
• Describe examples of mental health problems 
• Recognise how mental health can lead to other known character traits
• Be able to understand how mental health problems can affect normality from one day to another 
• Complete the ’Extreme effects of Mental Health problems on day to day living’ handout
• Understand social and cultural attitudes to mental illness 
• Recognise how stigma and discrimination can lead to overwhelming influences on individuals, communities and societies
• Understand how stereotyping can lead to prejudice, discrimination and inequality 
• Be able to understand the Equality Act 2010 and its relevance to mental health 
• Recognise how media is involved in mental ill health
• Identify different types of media sources and how they can influence the perception of mental health 
• Complete exerts from a newspaper article and highlight areas that may account for negative betrayal of mental ill health
• Understand the impact of stigma in mental ill health
• Define what is meant by the term stress and explain how it affects people
• Understand what stress is and how it is commonly defined 
• Be able to identify what causes stress Identify what causes stress in the workplace 
• Understand how stress can cause harm to the human body
• Recognise positive signs and symptoms of useful stress
• List signs and symptoms of harmful stress
• Be able to manage stress in the workplace – local and workplace support and self-management
• Understand how anxiety, phobias, depression, bipolar and schizophrenia is a denominator for ill related mental health 
• Describe the difference between anxiety and panic attacks
• Understand when anxiety, phobia, depression, bipolar and schizophrenia becomes a mental health problem
• Recognise the signs and symptoms of anxiety, phobia, depression, bipolar and schizophrenia
• Be able to manage an employee who has anxiety, phobia, depression, bipolar or schizophrenia Identify common treatments for anxiety, phobia, depression, bipolar and schizophrenia
• UNIT – 2 Understand why mental health is not discussed at work
• Be able to understand the increase in mental health in the UK by knowing ratios and statistics based on UK sources of information
• Describe and provide examples on why mental health is not discussed in the workplace Understand how to recognise and understand mental health problems 
• Be able to support and encourage colleagues, families or friends to discuss mental health
• Be able to recognise other types of legislation that applies to mental health
• Understanding The Equality Act 2010 and its role with mental health
• Understanding the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 and its relation to care and mental health 
• Understand The Mental Health Act (MHA) 1983 and how it applies to your company in the workplace
• Be able to interpret each Act and how they apply to your workplace
• Know and understand the employers and employees duty of care in the workplace
• Be aware of your obligation in the workplace by understanding the importance of confidentiality
• Understanding problems in the workplace as a result of unidentified mental health
• The Management Standards Approach and how to implement it 
• Explain how to recognise a problem in the workplace, including changes to an employee and your own changes as an employee
• Be able describe how these changes affect the workplace
• Describe how difficult it is to discloses mental health in the workplace
• Explain how to start a conversation with a colleague who has a suspected mental health condition
• Know what advice to provide during a discussion with a colleague, friend or family relative
• Be able to provide support to an employee who has been away from work or is returning to work
• Be able to implement an action plan to promote recovery of mental ill health
• Understand how the ‘Wellness Action Plan’ (WAP) can help with the recovery process
• Complete a WAP assessment Understand correct reporting procedures for your workplace and who to report to with suspected mental ill health Know how to promote a healthy workplace
• Be able to empower managers in the workplace
• Be able to understand The Management Standards Approach Know what the Management Standards Approach is and how it relates to organisational guidelines.
• Understand what ‘Steering Group’ is and who forms part of the group.

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