Delivery: Face-to-face | Duration: 3.5 hours
Poor mental health and wellbeing has a significant impact on all areas of a person’s life. As a manager, you can play a key role in ensuring a mentally healthy working environment.
This course will help you to develop the skills to become a supportive leader and empower you to be able to effectively manage workers presenting with concerns to their mental health.
You will get a better understanding of your duty of care, the policies and procedures, the role of the manager, establishing the differences between performance management and mental health support and how to manage boundaries effectively.
Learning outcomes
This course will teach you how to:
- Identify concerns pertaining to mental health in staff
- Seek and/or provide support for people with mental health and wellbeing concerns
- Delineate the difference between poor mental health and mental illness
- Enhance active listening, rapport building and identification of concerns with staff
- Understand a framework that enables you to take appropriate action and identify appropriate pathways of referral
Who should attend?
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Team leaders
- Human resources/People and culture professionals
- WHS officers
Presenter - Tracey Groombridge (Lifeline Tasmania)
Tracey has over 28 years’ experience working in the not-for-profit sector in a variety of areas including family violence, homelessness, health promotion, alcohol and drugs, as well as working with young people in the health sector. Tracey now delivers training in trauma, domestic violence, suicide intervention and mental health, while also pursuing her creative side, currently undertaking studies in Journalism, as well as teaching classes storytelling and narrative. This passion for storytelling is evident in Tracey’s training, where she uses it to create an engaging and lasting experience that will stay with people long after their course.
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