Level 3 Mental Health Accreditation

Equip Your Managers to Prevent Stress and Support Mental Health With Confidence

UK businesses lose £56 billion annually to poor mental health at work. Your managers are your first line of defence, but only if they’re trained to act.

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Cost: £185 + VAT per manager

Less than the average cost of a single day’s absence.

Your managers leave with an OCN-C4L-accredited Level 3 certificate, a practical Manager’s Toolkit, and the confidence to prevent work-related stress and effectively support real mental health and addiction conversations – customised entirely to your workplace culture, brand, policies and internal support.

  • Fully customised to your organisation.
  • Delivered in-house at a time that suits you.
  • Maximum 18 managers per session.
  • Includes Manager’s Toolkit and post-delivery evaluation report and meeting
  • Covers legal obligations around stress and mental health at work.

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Find out whether our Level 3 Mental Health for Managers training is the right fit for your organisation. We’ll talk through your current challenges, team size, and delivery options — no obligation, no hard sell.

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“We’ve reduced our stress and mental health-related sickness absence by 41% in just 12 months. Seeing that impact in real numbers has reinforced just how vital a structured wellbeing strategy is for both our people and the business.”

Hayley Cheel
HR Manager

Adient

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Masterclass objectives

OBJECTIVE 1

Tackling Stigma

Explore attitudes, bias, and stigma towards mental ill-health and addiction to foster a stigma free, psychologically safe culture in your team.

OBJECTIVE 2

Mental Health Diversity

Understand mental health awareness with a gender sensitive and male-friendly approach.

OBJECTIVE 3

Addiction and Recovery

Learn about how and why addiction develops (brought to life with a lived-experience story). Recognise early warning signs, how to start safe, supportive conversations while understanding the recovery journey & available support.

We’ll walk you through the full objectives on your discovery call.

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“Wellbeing Lead Academy’s manager training is always tailored and exceptional value. They go above and beyond to understand the culture of the organisation to make it bespoke.”

Mary Wallace – HR Manager

Northumberland National Park Authority

Benefits of Mental Health Training for Managers

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99% of learners rated the trainer’s subject knowledge as very good or excellent

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91% of learners reported a boost in confidence when supporting colleagues dealing with stress and mental health challenges

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96% of learners saw an improvement in their confidence of completing work-related stress risk assessments

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97% of learners would recommend our Preventing Work-related Stress and Supporting Mental Health Training

CASE STUDY

NGN set out to build genuine mental health capability across 75 managers in a high-pressure, male-dominated environment.

The result: 98.6% rated the training Excellent or Very Good, and managers left with the tools and confidence to have conversations that actually make a difference.

CASE STUDY

Principle Cleaning started at the top, piloting the programme with its CEO, HR team and senior leaders before a planned rollout to 180 managers across a 3,000-strong workforce. The brief was clear: leaders had to model the wellbeing behaviours they expected from everyone else.

The result: 100% rated the course objectives Excellent or Very Good and would recommend it, with senior leaders leaving equipped to hold psychologically safe conversations and meet their duties under HSE guidance and the Equality Act 2010.

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“I work in HR so the area of mental health in the workplace is a feature of most of my days now. This course has really helped with resources, language, as well as examples to bring things to life. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it without hesitation.”

HR Manager, Amazon

Who is the Mental Health Training for?

Our Preventing Work-related Stress and Supporting Mental Health Training for managers is designed for anyone with people management responsibilities at all levels of your organisation.

Our mental health training for managers supports meeting your duty of care and legislative obligations in preventing work related stress and supporting employees mental health disabilities while fostering wellbeing cultures in teams that promotes your organisation as a great place to work that attracts and retains the best talent.

People Managers

Foster a culture that retains your best talent.

HR Professionals

Develop your people managers to be confident in their roles.

L&D Managers

Embed a wellbeing culture into your leadership programme.

“Excellent content and very informative. The trainer was very engaging, kept the session at a good pace – and I liked the injections of humour. One of the best courses I have attended in a while.

Department Manager, Northern Gas Networks

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Read our frequently asked questions to ensure we’ve covered everything.

Our training courses maintain a minimum of 10 learners and a maximum of 18 per session. This ensures an optimal learning environment where your managers can actively engage, interact, and receive personalised attention from the facilitator.

For the biggest impact on culture and return on investment we recommend that the Level 3, Preventing Work-related Stress and Supporting Mental Health Training for Managers is rolled out across your people management structure. We also suggest that you consider starting at the senior level of management before cascading down. This ensures that every manager has the support of their manager above them after attending the training, evidences commitment to mental health and culture improvement and also prevents mixed cohorts of managerial levels which can impact the openness of learners.

Yes. We recommend that the Level 3, Preventing Work-related Stress and Supporting Mental Health Training for Managers becomes an essential part of your management training programme. Many organisations we work with see significant impacts and benefits of the training that they then make it a mandatory course for all people managers to attend. We recommend that refresher training of the Level 3, Preventing Work-related Stress and Supporting Mental Health Training for Managers is provided to your every 3 years.

The Level 3, Preventing Work-related Stress and Supporting Mental Health Training for Managers can be delivered using a face-to-face, online approach or a mix of both to meet the needs of your managers.

Managers are expected to complete a 2-hour eLearning module before they attend the 4-hour virtual Masterclass. Managers are given around 2-3 weeks to complete the eLearning before attending the Masterclass. The Masterclass is interactive and engaging, involving delegates in break out group discussions, skills practice, polls, peer-to-peer learning, videos, and activities in their workbooks.

The full day face-to-face training is delivered for you in-house. The day runs from 9am-5pm with 2 x 15 minute comfort breaks and 1x 30 min lunch break. Managers attending the course are required to complete a short pre-learning exercise before they attend the training.

To ensure full flexibility to meet the needs of your business we also provide a blended delivery approach. Managers are required to complete the 2-hour eLearning as pre-course work then attend a 4-hour face to face Masterclass to complete their learning.

Yes, we highly recommend for larger organisations with more complex cultures that we run a pilot first. Our pilot programme consists of a Co-design meeting with a range of people managers and key stakeholders, the Pilot Cohort, to ensure a broader understanding of HR and people manager’s needs. We then customise the pilot Level 3, Preventing Work-related Stress and Supporting Mental Health Training for Managers and deliver it to the Pilot Cohort. The Pilot Cohort is between 10-12 participants, this ensures plenty of time for live feedback for what works well, and improvements required before rolling out the programme. The Pilot Programme also includes full evaluation on the pilot delivery and a report meeting with Emma. Final Changes will be made to further bespoke the training before rolling out accordingly.

Our Level 3, Preventing Work-related Stress and Supporting Mental Health Training for managers is a nationally recognised certification, accredited by OCN Credit4learning, and is part of the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF).

Credit value: 1

“The course was brilliant. I feel that I now have all the tools and understanding to support colleagues. It is still a nerve-wracking thing to discuss but I now have the confidence to use the skills and tools provided to do this, more so than before I attended the training.”

Manager, Thirteen Group

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