First Aid for Mental Health

This First Aid for Mental Health training course is suitable for everyone but has been designed to help employers to provide a positive mental health culture within the workplace and to provide learners with comprehensive knowledge on a range of the most common mental health conditions and the skills to be able to act should a condition be suspected.

Learners undertaking this course will be considered First Aiders for Mental Health and be a point of contact within the workplace to help and support those with a suspected mental health condition.

Building on the 4hr Awareness of First Aid for Mental Health course, this course introduces the First Aid for Mental Health Action Plan which allows learners to provide their peers with comprehensive guidance and support for a suspected mental health condition. Learners will be able to provide signposting to professional help and support that person whilst they are receiving professional assistance.

This course also covers the effects of drugs and alcohol and provides learners with the skills and knowledge to assist employers in implementing a positive mental health culture to support employees within a workplace.

A range of First Aid for Mental Health related subjects are covered including:

  • What is First Aid for Mental Health
  • Identifying mental health conditions
  • Providing advice and starting a conversation
  • Stress
  • Mental health conditions
  • Drugs and alcohol
  • First Aid for Mental Health action plan
  • First Aid for Mental Health in the workplace

Duration: This course runs over 6 hours spread over 1 day. Ideally, the course should be run over one day, but we have the flexibility to accommodate your specific needs if you so desire, providing it is completed within 6 weeks of starting the course and the training sessions last for a minimum of two hours.

Numbers: max 16 students
Age: 14+

Assessment: A range of methods are used, including practical and questioning (open and multiple-choice).

Certification: A Level 2 Award in First Aid for Mental Health will be issued to the learner, subject to successful assessment. This qualification is valid for three years from the date of achievement.

Please note: learners will need to complete the full course again to requalify for a further three years and it is strongly recommended they attend annual refresher training.

A message from Outfit Moray;

Our onsite courses are cost effective way of training your team in a familiar workplace, with no extra travel or logistic costs to worry about. Simply email our First Aid Course Co-ordinator, Karen Cox, for more information or to book.

Additional benefits include:

  • An all-inclusive training price for up to 16 delegates
  • Opportunity to spread the course over a number of sessions
  • Ability to plan your training to fit your organisational needs
  • Team training which can also be a beneficial team building experience
  • A regulated SCQF qualification for each course participant

We also deliver a wide range of first aid training courses, plus onsite manual handling courses and, because we reinvest the income from all our courses back into our charitable funds; as well as benefitting from a unique, top quality learning experience, your training is also helping change the lives of Moray’s young people and their families, by supporting our delivery of life-changing outdoor learning and adventure opportunities.