What the course is about
We are delighted to have been selected by The Department for Education (DfE) as an approved provider of Senior Mental Health Lead (SMHL) Training.
SMHL training is a two-day DfE fully funded course that provides a designated senior leader at your setting with the tools to develop a whole school or college approach to wellbeing and mental health.
Your SMHL could be:
Headteacher
Depute Head Teacher
Member of SLT
Member of Staff who can develop a whole school approach to mental health
The course is £800 + VAT.
What is covered?
This is an introductory course aimed at new senior mental health leads, or those with no previous experience in mental health leadership.
Using a mixture of introductory e-learning, followed by a 2 day online course, you will be supported to develop and review your strategy through 1-2-1 coaching and group coaching sessions over a 12 month period.
By identifying the challenges faced by an individual school, leaders will be able to improve on and facilitate change in:
- Pupil attendance, attainment, and behaviour
- Recognition of need
- The School and Community relationship and referral connection
- Staff wellbeing and resilience
Throughout this course you will:
- Work through and develop a targeted Action Plan specific to your school
- Implement tools to assess need
- Identify interventions and measure pupil and staff outcomes
- Map community based mental health provision for your school area and engage with providers
- Embed change within the school community
- Implement strategies that will lead cultural change for the future of your school, staff, pupils and parents/carers
Peer support via our dedicated app, as well as resources to support your learning will be provided to all participants.