Minds that matter
Mental Health at Work for Managers.
A half day on mental health as part of good management: work design, supportive conversations, the law, absence, team culture, crisis and burnout.
- Level
- Explore
- Learning time
- 5 hours 30 minutes
- Where
- Mental Health at Work for Managers
- Price
- £129
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Content Note.
This topic is about mental health at work. Part 3, Safe to Speak, Safe to Seek Help, talks about suicide and how to respond when someone is in crisis. It follows the Samaritans' guidance on talking about suicide safely and gives no detail of methods. Take it at your own pace, pause whenever you need to, and come back to it later if that helps.
If you need to talk to someone now, call Samaritans free on 116 123, any time, day or night. For urgent mental health help, call NHS 111 (in Wales press 2, in England choose option 2; in Scotland NHS 24 is also on 111). In Northern Ireland, call Lifeline on 0808 808 8000. If a life is at risk, call 999.
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Managers and leaders across public service supporting staff mental health
Overview
Managers are often the first to notice when someone is struggling, and the best placed to make work part of the answer. This programme brings together the full picture over a half day. It starts with the manager's role, Keyes' dual continua model and the HSE Management Standards, then covers noticing and starting conversations, the law on disability and adjustments, and absence and return to work. It turns to stigma, psychological safety and just culture, responding gently to crisis, and burnout and self-care, closing with Barber v Somerset County Council, health and care staff in the pandemic, and a simple loop: notice, ask, adjust, follow up.
Aims
The aim is to develop managers who treat mental health as part of good management, not a specialist add-on. It is for managers and leaders across public service who want to design healthier work, support individuals fairly and lawfully, build a team culture where help-seeking is normal, and look after themselves.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Explain how work design, culture and the law shape mental health at work, and what a manager's role is and is not.
- Apply a supportive approach to noticing, conversation, reasonable adjustments, absence and return, so that individuals are treated fairly and with dignity.
- Lead a team culture of psychological safety and wellbeing, responding with care to crisis and sustaining your own resilience as a manager.
What you'll develop
Across this Explore, you will develop the ability to:
- Explain the dual continua model and why the absence of a diagnosis is not the same as being well.
- Identify changes in work, behaviour, energy and relationships that may signal someone is struggling, without attempting a diagnosis.
- Explain when a mental health condition meets the Equality Act 2010 definition of disability, and why a diagnosis is not the test.
- Distinguish public stigma, self-stigma and structural stigma, and explain how label avoidance keeps people silent.
- Explain why asking directly and calmly about suicide helps rather than harms, using the evidence on common myths.
- Explain why, following Barber v Somerset County Council, knowing that someone is struggling creates a duty to take the initiative.
Built from 4 parts.
5 hours 30 minutes of learning.
- 01Starting the conversationWork stress and the HSE Management StandardsBitesize3 modules
- 02Support that worksAdjustments, Access to Work and return to workBitesize2 modules
- 03Safe to speak, safe to seek helpPsychological safety and suicide awarenessBitesize2 modules
- 04Caring for your team and yourselfManager wellbeing and team support in practiceBitesize2 modules
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