Managing mental health
Designed to improve the understanding of mental health amongst business professionals, this course provides an in depth look at effective management of staff mental health.
Who will benefit?
- Line managers
- HR staff
- Occupational health staff
Length of course
Two days or four half-day sessions
Sample of content
- Managing mental health in supervision (one to ones)
- Signposting to support
- Management initiatives
- Policy interpretation and implementation
- Mental health and human resources
- Understanding reaction and prevention
- Insights, tools and techniques to manage workplace mental health
- Internal and external pathways
- Managing boundaries: where organisational responsibilities begin and end
- Understanding employer responsibilities under the Disability Discrimination Act
- Mental health and your wellbeing agenda
Outcomes
- Reduction in sickness absence, due to a preventative or early intervention approach to mental health
- Increased management understanding of mental health
- Increased management confidence to deal with mental health issues in a timely, sensitive and effective manner
- A deeper understanding of interventions that can be put in place for long term mental health, leading to increased staff retention
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