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If You Are a State Funded School in England

Develop in Your Role as a Senior Mental Health Lead

Transform your school or college's approach to mental health with our robust programme, with a range of pathways depending on your past experience and educational setting.

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Everything you Need to Transform Your School or College's Approach to Mental Health

Join us, and you'll learn how to...

Lead mental health effectively across your setting

Create a culture that values mental health

Identify need and assess the impact of interventions

Provide targeted support and refer appropriately

Upskill staff and support their own mental wellbeing

Promote mental health throughout the curriculum

Enable student voice to have a strong impact on provision

Work closely with parents and carers

Learn However You Learn Best

FLEXIBLE Online

Face-To-Face

Expert Support within Coaching Circles

After our launch webinar to get you started you'll meet 6 times during the programmes with your coaching circle. Led by an experienced Senior Mental Health Lead coaching circles will give you the opportunity to ask questions, check progress and share successes with colleagues from across the country.

Intensive Face-to-face Learning

On two full day face-to-face sessions, 1-2 months apart, you'll have the opportunity to dive deep into the skills and knowledge the Senior Mental Health Leads need, developing practical approaches to try on your return to school or college.

A Huge Library of On-Demand Videos

The core of the programme is our accessible, engaging on-demand video courses. With over 80 already on the site, and a further 50 created just for this programme you'll be able to find the perfect support for you and your setting.

Valuable Online Support

In between those two face-to-face sessions you'll have the support of all of the on-demand video training courses on our site, plus access to a coach to help you with any issues or challenges you face.

Access for Your Colleagues

In mental health a whole-school approach is vital, so we're also providing all of your colleagues with access to the on-demand mental health courses on our site for 6 months. This will give you an opportunity to increase understanding and build a culture that values mental health across the whole organisation.

Access for Your Colleagues

Fully Funded and DfE Accredited

The course programme has been quality assured and accredited by the Department for Education for use with the Senior Mental Health Lead training grant. Schools and colleges in England can access £1,200 of funding to pay completely for the programme. Providers that aren't eligible are more than welcome to join too.

Fully Funded and DfE Accredited

We have two courses on the Department for Education’s Senior Mental Health Lead Framework. Our online course New to the Role of the Senior Mental
Health Lead: Delivering a Whole School Approach (code SMHL055) and a face-to-face version (code SMHL072). We’ll give you a full summary of the course codes, start and end dates and all the other information you need for your grant application when you book.

Join the Thousands Who've Already Taken Part

When you join us, you’ll be in good company. We’ve already empowered thousands of participants to transform their school or college’s approach to mental health across the whole school community.

I never expected this programme to have such a profound effect on so many things. The training is exceptional, has taught me SO much, impacted on children, staff and families quickly as a result of us having so much more knowledge and strategies and also helped me be a better parent.

The webinars were engaging, the online demand videos were informative and easy to follow and my coach, was simply the best - going over and beyond what was expected to support, guide and advise.

It gave us a framework to make strategic change, which will have long-term benefits. It is not about the quick fix when it comes to shifting culture in a school and workplace! On top of this, it opened up to me a network of experts in this field, which was (and will continue to be!) incredibly valuable.

I found the online training courses really good, especially as they were not too long. I did not quite understand the importance of impact before so now have to evaluate EVERYTHING! I also think that the Senior Leadership Team take my role in school much more seriously now.

Dr Pooky Knightsmith

An internationally respected face of child and adolescent mental health, Pooky is a prolific keynote speaker, lecturer, trainer and author.

She develops and shares practical, evidence-informed approaches to promoting mental health – arming health and education staff with the skills, information and knowledge they need to support the children in their care.

Pooky has a PhD in child mental health from the Institute of Psychiatry, is the author of seven books and was previously the chair of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition.

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Have a Question?

How do I claim the funding?

The cost of the programme is £1,200 + VAT. This is made up of the cost of the training course, plus an additional fee to cover access to our mental health courses for your colleagues.

Once you book, we will send you a link to the form you can complete to sign up for a grant. We will provide you with our specific course code and an invoice that you can use to prove you’ve booked.

Am I eligible for the grant?

All state-funded schools and colleges in England are eligible for the grant.

To find out further details about the precise criteria you can read further details from the DfE here.

Have a question about whether you’re eligible? Call us on 020 8680 4077.

What if the grants run out?

The DfE has made grants available for 1/3 of English schools, and currently there are still plenty left.

But there’s no need to worry in case these grants run out. If you book the course with us and find out that there are no longer grants available you can get a full refund before the course starts, no questions asked.

I'm not eligible, can I still take part?

Yes, absolutely. If you’re not eligible for a grant you’re still more than welcome to take part. At £1,200 the programme still represents incredible value for you and your school.

Who is the course suitable for?

We’ve designed the course to be suitable for aspiring, new-to-role and intermediate mental health leads from a wide range of phases.

With a large selection of on-demand courses to choose from, you’ll be able to create a peronslaised development pathway that suits the needs of you and your setting.

How long is the course?

The course is for 2 terms, and is delivered entirely online.

During the programme you will have 6 online meetings lasting 90 minutes with a selection of your peers in your coaching circles. The remainder of your learning will come through on-demand courses and practical tasks that you can fit around your schedule to suit.

We would suggest you set an aside an hour a week to complete the self-study and on demand learning tasks.

How does the staff access work?

Just after the launch webinar we’ll get you set up so you can share access to all of the courses on our site with your staff for 6 months.

We’ll provide you with a link you can share with colleagues to give them access, or you can give us a spreadsheet of staff you’d like us to add – whichever’s easiest.

It’s a great opportunity to help achieve whole-school change and spread understanding about mental health across the whole school community.

Can I remove the staff access?

If you want to remove the staff access, you can – the price of the course on its own will be £800.

If you’d like to remove the staff access simply email us after you’ve booked to let us know at [email protected]

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