MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID ENGLAND TRAINING
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID ENGLAND TRAINING COURSE
The MHFA England training course teaches adults how to provide Mental Health First Aid to colleagues, family and friends.
As a licensed Mental Health First Aid England Instructor, I will deliver quality mental health training to your staff that will complement your mental and physical health at work strategies.
As part of the Adult Mental Heath First Aid England course, all participants are provided with learning materials including a MHFA England manual to aid learning.
This training will help establish a network of staff in your workplace who have a better understanding of how to support others with their mental health. By reading my post, ‘Why your business needs Mental Health First Aiders‘, you will understand more about the importance of this training for your organisation.
Invest in mental health for the benefit of your organisation.
Contact me to discuss your training needs.
GET IN TOUCH
BOOK YOUR COURSE
Contact me to discuss your organisation’s training needs and arrange to set up your Mental Health First Aid online course
LEARNING MATERIALS
Once your course is set up, participants will be sent their learning materials which are used during the webinar
ATTEND THE WEBINARS
Participants are then sent the necessary link for the four mandatory webinars, as detailed in the course structure on this page
ADULT MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID
This online course trains you as a Mental Health First Aider. As an MHFAider® you will be able to:
- Recognise those that may be experiencing poor mental health and provide them with first-level support and early intervention
- Encourage a person to identify and access sources of professional help and other supports
- Practise active listening and empathy
- Have a conversation with improved mental health literacy around language and stigma
- Discuss the MHFAider® role in depth, including boundaries and confidentiality
- Practise self-care
- Know how to use the MHFAider Support App®
- Know how to access a dedicated text service provided by Shout and ongoing learning opportunities with MHFA England
Details of the course structure, outlining all the topics, can be found at the bottom of this page.
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
“Ellender was welcoming and enthusiastic from the moment we joined the course. The way in which the information was explained, combined with real life examples, made learning the contents easy and enjoyable. I feel I have taken a huge amount from the course and that is in no small part because of the way in which it was delivered by Ellender.”
HOW THE MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID ENGLAND COURSE IS DELIVERED
This Mental Health First Aid training is an online course delivered through the MHFA England Online Learning Hub. Learning takes place through four live training webinar sessions with me as your instructor.
All participants who complete the course gets:
- A digital MHFAider® certificate
- Access to a digital manual to refer to whenever you need it
- A wallet-sized reference card for the Mental Health First Aid action plan
- A workbook including a helpful toolkit to support your own mental health
- Access to the MHFAider Support App® for three years
- Access to ongoing learning opportunities, resources and exclusive events
ADULT MHFA ENGLAND
ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE
Click on the headings below for the drop down list of topics
- Mental Health First Aid and the action plan
- The MHFAider® role and self-care
- Helpful and unhelpful language
- Useful models to support the role
- What influences mental health?
- What is anxiety?
- Crisis first aid
- Active listening and empathy
- What are eating disorders?
- What is self-harm?
- What is substance misuse?
- Applying the Mental Health First Aid action plan
- What is depression?
- What is suicide?
- Crisis first aid continued
- What is psychosis?
- Recovery and lived experience
- Boundaries in the MHFAider® role
- Moving forward in the MHFAider® role
- My MHFA action plan
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
The Adult Mental Health First Aid training course – with me as your instructor, including all materials, digital manual and certificate – is at a discounted rate of £250 per participant.
*MHFA England values this course at £325 per person.
Mental Health First Aid courses are for everyone over 18. You do not need prior knowledge of mental health, just like not requiring medical knowledge to take a physical first aid course.
All sorts of people benefit from this training. The types of people who have benefited already include:
- Line managers
- Local authority staff
- HR professionals
- Frontline workers
- Teachers
- Transport industry employees
The Australia based MHFA International grants and oversees the worldwide licenses to individual counties. Each of these individual countries has been permitted to adapt the Mental Health First Aid course accordingly to meet their needs, reflecting cultural differences and differing mental health legislation.
MHFA England and MHFA Wales courses may differ slightly, however, the outcome and skills learned are essentially the same.
As this is an online course, you would need the following:
- internet access
- access to a laptop or computer with a web camera and microphone; the use of headphones might also be of benefit
- use of the Chrome web-browser where possible
Participants who complete all of the required learning will have access to their downloadable Mental Health First Aid certificate once the course feedback has been completed.
The MHFA certificate is valid for three years, the same as physical first aid training. It is recommended that, in order to keep knowledge up to date, another Mental Health First Aid course is taken after this period of time.
For many, after the three years, a refresher course is adequate, instead of another full MHFA course. This will depend on the level of your retained knowledge, which differs for everyone.
At this time, only online courses are available.
BOOK YOUR TRAINING COURSE
Start your organisation’s mental health training journey by contacting me to discuss your training requirements
MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS TRAINING COURSE
In addition to your Mental Health First Aiders, it can be extremely beneficial for all staff to complete the Mental Health Awareness course.
The Mental Health Awareness training is a half day course designed to be an ideal starting point to learn about mental health and mental illness.
By training your whole organisation in Mental Health Awareness to complement your Mental health First Aiders, a strong network of mental health knowledge will be achieved. This investment will help to minimise days lost to mental health related illness and help build resilience.