Services
Our Services
At Supporting Minds Consultancy, we offer a range of professional services from policy and strategy development to licence training courses such as Mental Health First Aid through to bespoke training solutions tailored for you. If you don't see here what you need, please email us or use the contact form and we'll be in contact to discuss your requirements
Policy & strategy
Developing a practical mental health or staff well-being policy or strategy can be daunting. Here at SMC we have years of experience in assessing current policy and developing new. Of course a business policy or strategy is only ever as good as the interpretation which is why we also offer roll out training to accompany changes to the business.
Training
Training
We believe in the right training, by the right people at the right time with the right support . We don't believe in training as a "tick-box exercise" . If you want an "off the shelf" course such as MHFA or something bespoke, we can accommodate your requirements.
Employee well-being
The most valuable commodity you have is your staff. Why go to all the bother of recruiting the right person for the job if you're not going to look after them? Employee well-being of course includes pay, holiday entitlement, status and all the H&S regulations...but it is so much more than that. Having healthy, happy valued staff makes sense for employee retention but also for business reputation.
We are now able to offer many of our classroom based courses virtually via Zoom and MS Teams.
Please contact us for more information
Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First Aid is an educational course which teaches people how to identify, understand and help a person who may be developing a mental health issue. In the same way as we learn physical first aid, Mental Health First Aid teaches you how to recognise those crucial warning signs of mental ill health.
We are licenced to deliver the following MHFA courses:
- MHFAider® two day
- Adult one day (workplace)
- Adult half day
- Adult MHFA refresher
- Youth two day
- Youth one day
- Youth half day
- MHFA for Higher Education
- MHFA armed forces
Mental health
Sorting through the abundance of mental health training courses on offer can feel like wading through a quagmire.
At SMC we have a range of ready made courses consisting of mental health awareness, self care and mental distress first responder. All of which can be delivered to your employees by us or we can train your own in-house trainers to deliver.
Level 3 Safeguarding Children, Young People or Vulnerable Adults qualification (RQF).
This qualification is designed for people who have contact with children, young people or vulnerable adults in their working environment including voluntary work. It will teach you how to recognise the signs of abuse and neglect and what actions you can take to stop this from happening and occurring again in the future. The programme emphasises the importance of ensuring that safeguarding concerns are reported and acted on appropriately. Successful candidates will be awarded a national Level 3 Principles of Safeguarding and Protecting Children, Young People or Vulnerable Adults qualification.
A Listening Ear
Often it's not a solution people are looking for when they ask to talk, but validation of how they are feeling and the opportunity to talk without being judged. The listener role is non-clinical and not a specialist. They are providing the precious time and space and possible signpost.
Many universities employ this approach for students as it's cost effective and simple to introduce.
At SMC we can provide full training to organisations backed up by a workplace policy where required.
Line managers
People are the number one resource in any organisation, so excellent people line management skills are essential to get the very best from those who make your business work
We offer a tailored solution to your line manager people management skills, including:
- one-to-one mentoring
- group action learning sets
- training days
- supervision skills training
- appraisal skills training
- stress management
- supporting people through organisational change
Workplace health
The health of it's employees is of increasing concern to businesses and organisations who want to flourish in these competitive times.
Whether your business is working towards the Workplace Wellbeing Charter or simply want a healthy productive workforce we are able to offer you a needs led solution
We offer a tailored solution to your workplace. Our services inc:
- audit of base line level of employee wellbeing in your workplace
- review of employee wellbeing related policies
- employee wellbeing strategy development
- employee focus groups
- practical support for initiating and maintaining change
Making Every Contact CountMECC
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is about encouraging and empowering people to make healthier lifestyle choices to achieve positive long-term behaviour change. The fundamental idea underpinning the MECC approach is simple. It recognises that staff across health, local authority and voluntary sectors have thousands of contacts every day with individuals from the resident population
Our courses are based on motivational interviewing techniques and behaviour change theory. We employ a combination approach incorporating the theory with practical experiences.
Please email us or use the contact form to find out how we can deliver this to your staff
Motivational interviewing
Working with you and your organisation to tailor design the perfect training solution that fits your business. Using the principles of MI we can support your organisation through change to help to bring everyone along with you
About Us
Helping organisations and individuals develop and reach their full potential is our goal. Having spent many years working in the public sector, both in local authority & the NHS and in commercial industry we have a well rounded understanding of the pressures and complexities of different working environments.