Mental Health Awareness Training for Managers

Managing mental ill health at work - get the facts and confidence to support your staff on this practical mental health awareness training course.
Half day

Overview: Mental health awareness in the workplace

Good employee mental health is the foundation of a successful and productive team.

However, despite positive progress in recent years, far too many employees feel unable to discuss their mental health with their managers. They fear being judged, misunderstood or worse, and many try to hide their illness.

Most managers sincerely want to help and support their staff, but they don't know how to recognise the signs of poor mental health at work or are afraid of saying the wrong thing. This is compounded by the fact that many managers don't know how to help their team access available support.

This highly interactive and practical training course will equip managers with the basic mental health awareness information. You’ll be provided with a framework for understanding the most common mental health issues and how they might surface in the workplace.

It will also give you crystal clear guidance on what your role is - and the limits of what you can do - so you feel confident to manage and support the mental health issues you can assist with - and are knowledgeable enough to find expert help when it’s required.

What you'll learn

  • Basic understanding of the most common mental illnesses, including depression and anxiety
  • Understand what poor mental health looks like at work, how to recognise the signs and when to get involved
  • What the role of the manager is in supporting someone with a mental health problem
  • Understand why the fear of being judged is so important to people experiencing mental health problems
  • How to listen and have a conversation that is open and supportive
  • What to do in a crisis
  • How to make simple, reasonable adjustments that will help mental health sufferers remain productive
  • Steps you can take to make your organisation more mental health friendly and aware

Who is it for?

This mental health awareness training is for any manager who would like to have the knowledge, skills and confidence to address mental health issues at work.

Your facilitator

Jonny Ward
Jonny Ward

Jonny Ward is a clinical psychotherapist, a firefighter and an experienced mental health first aid trainer. Jonny brings a deep compassion and empathy to his work because he knows first-hand what it's like to live with anxiety and depression. After personal and professional experiences of mental ill health in the form of rescues involving those in crises and losses of friends to suicide, he is passionate about both reducing mental health stigma and delivering quality training. He believes that all workplaces and all manager can be better at supporting people with mental ill health, and he focuses on pragmatism, reality and honesty to my teaching. Participants will gain confidence knowing that his training is based on pragmatic, honest and realistic advice.

Feedback

Very insightful session. I thought I knew a lot about mental health but I learnt more than I expected. Very engaging and interesting, particularly considering the circumstances of having to work over zoom rather than the normal classroom format.
Very engaging and interesting
I really enjoyed the course clear and concise yet insightful and relevant content. Great trainer, approachable yet professional. Thank you
Great trainer!
This was the first time I have taken part in an online training session, after this session it will not be the last. Extremely clear instruction but most important, this was a two way class. You were encouraged at anytime to ask a question or to go over something if you were not quite clear. Brilliant style of teaching by the most helpful Jonny. Look forward to the next class.
Brilliant!
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