Certficate in Understanding Mental Health First Aid and Mental Health Advocacy in the Workplace

Entry is at the dis­cre­tion of the cen­tre. How­ev­er, learn­ers should be aged 16 or above to under­take this qual­i­fi­ca­tion qualifications.

Do you need to be work­ing to take this qualification?

This is a knowl­edge-only qual­i­fi­ca­tion. Work/​industry place­ment expe­ri­ence is not required.

Learn­ers who achieve this qual­i­fi­ca­tion could progress to:

• Lev­el 2 and 3 Diplo­ma in Health and Social Care (Adults) for Eng­land
• Lev­el 2 and 3 Cer­tifi­cate in Prepar­ing to Work in Adult Social Care
• Lev­el 2 Award in Aware­ness of Demen­tia
• Lev­el 2 and 3 Cer­tifi­cate for Work­ing in the Health Sec­tor
• Lev­el 3 Cer­tifi­cate in the Prin­ci­ples of End of Life Care
• Lev­el 3 Cer­tifi­cate in Stroke Care Man­age­ment
• Inter­me­di­ate and Advanced Appren­tice­ships in Health & Social Care.

Career oppor­tu­ni­ties

Work­ers with­in a wide range of pub­lic ser­vice roles will inter­act with those with men­tal health issues and sup­port needs in their day-to-day work across a num­ber of sec­tors. This qual­i­fi­ca­tion may be use­ful to learn­ers study­ing qual­i­fi­ca­tions in the fol­low­ing sector(s)/area(s):

• cus­tomer ser­vice
• hous­ing
• vol­un­tary sec­tor
• sport and recre­ation
• hos­pi­tal­i­ty
• trav­el and tourism.

The pur­pose of this qual­i­fi­ca­tion is to give learn­ers the skills to sup­port col­leagues with men­tal health prob­lems. These skills will be gained by increas­ing the learner’s knowl­edge and under­stand­ing of men­tal health con­di­tions and the prin­ci­ples of men­tal health first aid and how this can be imple­ment­ed in the workplace.

To be award­ed this qual­i­fi­ca­tion, learn­ers are required to suc­cess­ful­ly com­plete 3 manda­to­ry units.