Mental Health Training
Please see below for courses available.
First Aid for Mental Health Awareness Training Level 1
This 1/2 day Mental Health course is aimed at providing learners with the knowledge to identify suspected mental health conditions and the skills to start a conversation and be able to signpost the person towards professional help.
A range of First Aid for Mental Health-related subjects are covered including:
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- What First Aid for Mental Health is
- Recognising mental health conditions
- Providing advice and starting a conversation
- Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and other mental health conditions
Numbers – A maximum of 16 students are allowed on this Mental Health Awareness course and must be a minimum of 14 years of age. A certificate can be offered to all, subject to assessment.
Assessment – A range of methods are used, including practical and questioning (open and multiple-choice).
Certification – A Level 1 Award in Awareness for First Aid for Mental Health will be issued to the learner, subject to successful assessment.
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: Please enquire for cost (FAA accredited)
FAA Level 2 Award in First Aid for Mental Health (RQF)
A range of First Aid for Mental Health-related subjects are covered including:
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- What is First Aid for Mental Health?
- Identifying mental health conditions
- Providing advice and starting a conversation
- Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and other mental health conditions
- Drugs and alcohol
- First Aid for Mental Health action plan
- First Aid for Mental Health in the workplace
Numbers – A maximum of 16 students are allowed on this Mental Health training course and must be a minimum of 14 years of age. A certificate can be offered to all, subject to assessment.
Assessment – A range of methods are used, including practical and questioning (open and multiple-choice).
Certification – A Level 2 Award in First Aid for Mental Health will be issued to the learner, subject to successful assessment.
Duration: 1 Day (6 hours)
Cost: Please enquire for cost (FAA accredited)
Supervising First Aid for Mental Health Training
This 2-Day Mental Health course goes into detail on a wide range of mental health conditions and the support and help provided by healthcare professionals.
Course content
A range of First Aid for Mental Health related subjects are covered including:
- It covers the content of both the Level 1 and Level 2 qualifications but is aimed at Trainer/Assessors and/or supervisor level within the workplace.
- What is First Aid for Mental Health?
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Identifying mental health conditions
- Self-harm
- Providing advice and starting a conversation
- Suicide
- Stress
- Eating disorders
- Mental health conditions
- Personality disorders
- Drugs and alcohol
- Bipolar disorder
- First Aid for Mental Health action plan
- Psychosis
- First Aid for Mental Health in the workplace
- Schizophrenia
- Depression
- Anxiety
Numbers – A maximum of 16 students are allowed on this Mental Health training course and must be a minimum of 16 years of age. A certificate can be offered to all, subject to assessment.
Assessment – A range of methods are used, including practical and questioning (open and multiple-choice).
Certification – A Level 3 Award in Supervising First Aid for Mental Health will be issued to the learner, subject to successful assessment.
Duration: 2 days (12 hours)
Cost: Please enquire for cost (FAA accredited)
Basic Mental Health Awareness Training
We also provide a Basic Mental Health Awareness training course.
Course content
- Key legislation
- What is Mental Health?
- Mental health conditions and identifying them including;
- Stress
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Psychosis
- Bipolar Disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Starting a conversation, providing information and advice
This course can be made bespoke to your training requirements and can include additional areas such as Mental Capacity Act & DoLS.
Duration: 2 hours
Cost: Please enquire for cost
Silvana Holt
Silvana has been delivering training for over 12 years to many organisations across various industries, specialising in Health & Safety related topics, Health & Social Care training and Employee and Leadership Development programmes.
It was a pleasure working with Compliance Training Ltd, over the five days you spent at our company training staff on Mental Awareness and associated areas. I appreciated the time you spent beforehand and also during the five days listening to our needs adapting and adding literature to help staff understand the course and styling and customizing it around in a way for our staff to fully engage.
Your style and presentation really set the tone for a successful staff training and development course. I wish you continued success in your work and will highly recommend your company to other services and look forward to using Compliance Training Ltd again in the future.
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