Mental health training creates skills to have confident supportive conversations
Alongside their responsibility to protect the physical health and safety of employees, employers also have a duty of care to support the mental health and wellbeing of their staff. Committing to these obligations demonstrates that an organisation promotes an inclusive working environment where conversations about mental health can be openly discussed and treated as a priority rather than ignored.
Mental health is widely recognised as a core component of workplace health and safety. In the UK, employers have a legal duty of care under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 to protect the health, safety, and welfare of their employees. While the Act does not explicitly reference mental health, the term health is understood to include both physical and mental wellbeing. As such, employers are expected to take reasonable steps to prevent work-related stress and support employees’ mental health.
For many years, mental health in the workplace was overlooked, with stress and wellbeing often viewed as personal issues rather than organisational responsibilities. Over time, changes in working practices and increased awareness of work-related stress, have led to a fundamental shift in how organisations view mental health and wellbeing.
By embedding awareness, early intervention, and supportive leadership through training, organisations can take meaningful, proactive steps to prioritise mental health and wellbeing across the workplace.
The overall aim of completing any courses that lean towards mental health and wellbeing is to promote a constructive and positive workplace environment. Organisations can benefit from the training as it will contribute to an improved relations between staff, regardless of job position and status. The raised awareness level can also lead to spotting signs of work-related stress.
Our training consists of courses where the learned knowledge is transferable to any working environment. Office based individuals can complete this, along with their seniors, and even lone workers as managing stress and resilience is just limited to a single job role.
Though there is no legal requirement to provide staff with this training, in the best interest of your team and the overall organisation, enabling individuals to complete stress awareness and mental health training even once a year will always better than not be doing any type of this training afterwards.
Purchasing our mental health and wellbeing course, and any other of our training courses is straight forward. For those looking to buy a course can do this via or website, simply follow the path after clicking "Add To Basket". If you're looking to train your team or order a large volume of courses we do suggest contacting us so we can provide you with a quote.
Take advantage of our bulk discounts which will reduce your overall cost of training. Better still, any courses you order can be registered to users upto two years later so there's no need to worry about training credits expiring!