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Mental Health and Wellbeing eLearning
Online mental health awareness training for the workplace: noticing when a colleague is struggling, starting the conversation, and knowing where your role ends.
Who it is for
Who this mental health and wellbeing course is for
Most people will work alongside someone experiencing a mental health difficulty. Very few feel equipped to say anything about it. This course is about closing that gap without turning colleagues into clinicians.
- All staff, as part of induction or refresher training
- Line managers and supervisors
- HR teams and wellbeing champions
- Remote and lone workers, and those who manage them
- Shift workers and their supervisors
- Anyone who wants to support a colleague better
Course content
What the mental health and wellbeing course covers
Six short modules on recognising difficulty, responding well, and the workplace factors that make it worse or better.
Mental health at work
What we mean by mental health and wellbeing, and how common difficulty actually is.
Stigma and why people stay quiet
The reasons colleagues hide difficulty, and what changes that.
Recognising the signs
Changes in behaviour, performance and interaction that are worth noticing.
Starting the conversation
How to raise a concern without diagnosing, prying or promising to fix it.
Workplace factors
Workload, control, support, relationships, role and change: the things employers can actually alter.
Getting help
Internal support, occupational health, and knowing the limits of your role.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Talk about mental health at work without awkwardness or diagnosis
- Notice changes that suggest a colleague is struggling
- Open a supportive conversation and listen properly
- Signpost someone to appropriate help
- Recognise the workplace factors that affect wellbeing
- Know where your responsibility ends and a professional's begins
Your legal duty
The law behind mental health and wellbeing training
There is no regulation requiring mental health training by name. The duties that apply are the general ones. The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 requires employers to ensure health, safety and welfare so far as is reasonably practicable, and health includes mental health. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require risks to be assessed, including work-related stress.
Separately, a mental health condition may amount to a disability under the Equality Act 2010, which brings the duty to make reasonable adjustments into play. This course is awareness training and does not attempt to advise on individual cases.
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 - health includes mental health
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - assessing work-related stress
- Equality Act 2010 - where a condition amounts to a disability
- This is awareness training, not clinical or therapeutic training.
Practicalities
How the course works
For employers
Mental Health and Wellbeing training for a team
Wellbeing training lands better when a whole team has done it, because the barrier is rarely knowledge. It is whether it feels normal to say something.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
Work-related stress has its own course covering the causes employers can control. See the Stress in the Workplace course →
Mental Health and Wellbeing eLearning: common questions
Not by name. The general duty to ensure health and welfare covers mental health, and stress must be assessed like any other risk, but no regulation requires this specific training.
No. This is awareness training. Mental health first aid is a separate, longer, accredited programme.
The course covers this: listen, do not promise confidentiality you cannot keep, and signpost to proper support. You are not expected to handle it alone.
It covers the workplace factors managers control: workload, support, control and change. A manager with formal responsibility may want deeper training as well.
About 30 minutes, with no time limit. Start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued the moment you finish.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people need them. Completion reporting is included.
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