Managing Mental Health & Wellbeing in the Workplace

This three-and-a-half-hour program includes the Introduction to Mental Health & Wellbeing in the Workplace program. It is specifically designed to empower managers with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively manage workers presenting with issues pertaining to mental health and/or mental illness.

By the end of this training participants will be able to:

Ability to identify issues pertaining to mental health in staff

Ability to effectively manage a mentally healthy workplace

Ability to seek and/or provide support for people with mental health and well-being issues.

Key Topics

Duty of care, policies and procedures pertaining to mental health

The role of a manager with regard to mental health

Differences between performance management and mental health support

Managing boundaries effectively

Primary Objectives

To support the development of mentally healthy and supportive workplaces

To delineate the difference between mental health issues and mental illness

To provide activities that enhance active listening, rapport building and identification of issues with
staff

To assist managers to work collaboratively with their staff to improve their mental health

To provide a framework that enables managers to take appropriate action and identify appropriate pathways of referral.