CMI Level 7 Award in Strategic Approaches Mental Health and Wellbeing
Course Overview
Did you know that businesses who support their employees with their mental health and wellbeing see a higher rate of productivity and a lower rate of absences?
One of the leading reasons for sickness across the UK is in fact mental health. The way to avoid this is through a robust strategic mental health and wellbeing plan to support your colleagues throughout their mental health journey, which our CMI Level 7 Award in Strategic Approaches to Mental Health and Wellbeing can support with.
Current statistics form Deloitte suggest that mental health costs businesses up to £56 billion each year. This is not just in sick days lost but in productivity, and staff moral effecting overall performance.
Understanding the impact to mental health and well-being on your organisation is the first step to creating a strategic plan. Throughout the 3-day programme you will work with specialist tutors assessing the complexity of managing wellbeing and discover the best approach for creating a healthy working system for your business.
On completion of the programme, you will be armed with a working strategic plan for you to implement within your organisation.
At a glance
Learning Outcomes for Individuals
- Understand and recognise the impact of mental health and wellbeing on your organisational performance.
- Be able to critically assess the complexities of managing mental health and wellbeing within your organisation.
- Evaluate contemporary approaches for creating healthy work systems
- Know how to develop a culture of mental health and wellbeing
- Be able to critically appraise approaches for implementing and sustaining a culture of mental health and wellbeing and propose that strategy in an organisational context
Benefits for Organisations
- Empower senior leaders with effective, evidence-based approaches to mental health and wellbeing
- Opportunity to benefit from the significant return on investment possible with implementation of proactive wellbeing strategies
- Opportunity to propose a series of recommendations to create and sustain a positive culture of mental health and wellbeing within an organisational context; shown to improve workplace performance, satisfaction, health and retention
- Understanding mental health and wellbeing and why they matter to your organisation
- Exploring organisational responsibility for mental health and wellbeing including legal requirements and best practice
- Assessing what impacts workplace mental health and wellbeing
- Understanding diversity and stigma in relation to workplace mental health and wellbeing
- Recognising and responding to the challenges in balancing organisational and individual needs
- How to create a mental health and wellbeing supportive culture
- Embedding leadership approaches that support a mental health and wellbeing strategy
- Designing an effective mental health and wellbeing strategy
- How to monitor, measure and evaluate mental health and wellbeing strategies
- Review of good practice and case study examples
- Using the teachings from the previous days you will consider the mental health and well-being needs for your business.
- Problem solve the potential challenges in the development and implementation of your plan.
- Develop a tailored mental health and wellbeing strategy for your business
On completion of the 3- day programme you will then progress on to completing one assignment of 3500-4000 words to include an evaluation of your organisations current mental health and well-being policy.
Michelle Brook
Michelle is a highly qualified trainer and teaching professional with extensive experience of providing accredited training, psychological interventions and wellbeing services to individuals, groups & organisations.
Michelle began her career in the field of psychology and from there moved into primary care within the NHS. She completed postgraduate study in low intensity psychological therapies and undertaking CBT training; spending almost a decade delivering psychotherapuetic interventions to individuals and groups.
With a passion for training and group work, Michelle moved over to work with De Montfort University and NHS Education to lead on a training programme for NHS therapists. During this time she completed her PGCert in higher education developing further knowledge and skills in learning theory and effective teaching methods, also developing her skills in the areas of curriculum and learning material design, assessment, quality assurance and learner support.
Michelle was previously a partner within a workplace wellbeing, professional skills and clinical supervision business. She is a strong advocate for the importance of empowering individuals with the knowledge and skills to support their personal and professional wellbeing. Their work strongly focused on assessing the individual needs of organisations and their people to provide relevant, applicable and accessible training to give strong return on investment.
Michelle has been delivering ILM and CMI training in Leadership and Management as well as Coaching and Mentoring since 2022. Michelle retains a strong passion for wellbeing and postive psychology.
