Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Modern Workplace
Mental Health Foundation and Mental Health at Work
This online course explored the varying states of mental health that we can experience, what the workplace can do to be fully inclusive and develop a psychologically safe working environment as well as interpersonal skills that individuals can use to advocate and support themselves and others. This included topics such as burnout, effective line management, holding safeguarding conversations, the legal duty of care that employers hold and making reasonable adjustments.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Mark Rowland
Chief Executive Officer
Mental Health Foundation
Alison Pay
Managing Director
Mental Health at Work
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Assess the role of the workplace in preventing poor health and understand the moral, legal and economic reasons to do so.
- Develop our understanding of what mental health is, as well as how it can and does change over time.
- Explore the stress response and the risks of prolonged or excessive stress.
- Discuss the role of stigma in worsening the mental health epidemic.
- Identify members of our society who are at higher risk of developing mental illness.
- Reflect on the factors which contribute to a psychologically safe workplace.
- Explore key workplace policies and procedures which have an impact on wellbeing.
- Identify the ways in which a line manager can support their team's wellbeing.
- Improve interpersonal skills of listening to our colleagues and noticing changes in them.
Syllabus
- The mental health prevention agenda
- The role of the workplace in tackling the mental health epidemic
- The dynamic nature of mental health and its influences
- Mental health inequalities in society
- Stress and burnout
- Stigma and discrimination around mental illness
- Improving the workplace culture and environment
- Developing networks of social support
- Boundaries in the workplace
- Key mental health-related workplace policies and procedures
- How to support your colleagues as well as to advocate for yourself
- The role of managers and management
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Issued on 11th November 2025
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