Training to become a Colleague Mental Health Champion

Essential training

Here is the training we would like you to complete to become a Champion:

Suicide awareness training

The Student Wellbeing team have created some suicide awareness training which will be very helpful for you to do. It will only take 20-30 minutes but will give you a good foundation of knowledge in this area.   

Other useful training 

Personal development training

Here are some other training courses that may be of interest to you to do can be found here. These are not essential.

Videos from the ‘Supporting the Mental Wellbeing of your team’ training

These videos were included in the line management training module ‘Supporting the Mental Wellbeing of your team’. They will be helpful for you to watch to learn some tips on having supportive conversations.

1. Setting up a wellbeing check-in as part of every line management meeting and transcript 1
2. Exploring stress and signposting and transcript 2
3. Exploring reasonable adjustments and transcript 3 (please note this is just for information, we are not expecting you to put reasonable adjustments into place as this is a line manager responsibility)
4. Reviewing progress and next steps on the journey  and transcript 4