Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is a practical skills and awareness course that teaches people how to identify, understand and help someone who may be experiencing a mental health issue.  MHFA won’t teach you to be a therapist, but it will teach you to listen, reassure and respond, even in a crisis.

You will: 

• learn to recognise warning signs of mental ill-health, and develop the skills and confidence to approach and support someone while keeping yourself safe
• learn how to empower someone to access the support they might need for recovery 
• gain an understanding of how to support positive wellbeing and tackle stigma in the world around you

This course is certified by MHFA England.

Practitioners will gain:

• a deeper understanding of mental health and the factors that can affect people’s wellbeing, including your own
• practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues
• confidence to step in, reassure and support a person in distress
• enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgemental listening
• knowledge to help someone recover their health by guiding them to appropriate support

For those wanting to be a Mental Health First Aider within their workplace

This course has been specially designed to develop both the competence and confidence of delegates to conduct Risk Assessments within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

It is highly interactive and stimulating with a mixture of key learning points, activities, video and group-based discussion to help ensure a valuable learning experience.

Employees will:

• understand your Health and Safety responsibilities within the Royal Borough of Greenwich
• understand the relationship between a hazard, risk and control measure
• understand the steps for a Risk Assessment.
• complete a Risk Assessment and apply risk control hierarchy in the control measures
• be familiar with internal procedures and the following documents: 
  • Responsibilities
  • General Risk Assessment procedure
  • General Risk Assessment guidance
  • Risk Assessment document
  • Example RBG Risk Assessments

Risk Assessment workshop:

• Review examples of risk
• Assessments
• Identify operational risks and complete a Risk Assessment

All employees who will undertake Risk Assessments.

An introduction to the needs and learning styles of pupils with a visual impairment and an overview of practical strategies to support them for all staff in school.

Pupils will:

• be able to access the curriculum effectively

Staff will:

• have an understanding of visual impairment and how it affects pupils and their families
• be equipped with a range of strategies to support pupils with VI in mainstream primary schools

Settings will:

• be able to set up VI friendly approaches across the whole school and establish consistent approaches to the management of pupils in their schools, as a consequence of a shared knowledge and understanding amongst all staff
• have staff with a greater understanding of best practice in relation to pupils with visual impairment

Whole school teams

STEPS can deliver a range of bespoke in school training on request.

Pupils will:

• have full learning and progress

Staff will:

• develop skills depending on chosen topic

Schools will:

• increase in staff knowledge and skills

Class Teachers, Learning Support Assistants and SLT