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- The centre assesses, and Open Awards awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Open Awards.
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These are the units Open Awards registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Meeting the Responsibilities Placed on a Service Provider Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Review the health and safety requirements relating to mental health and wellbeing of staff within own organisation
- Assess the risk of emotionally demanding roles within own organisation
- Review the responsibilities and requirements of relevant inspections relating to mental health
- Describe the role of a mental health friendly leader in their setting
- Analyse the importance of working with other managers to support the mental health of others
Meeting the Responsibilities Placed on a Workplace Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Review the health and safety requirements relating to mental health and wellbeing of staff within own workplace
- Assess the risk of emotionally demanding roles within own workplace
- Describe the role of a mental health friendly leader in their setting
- Analyse the importance of working with internal stakeholders to support the mental health needs of others
Meeting the Responsibilities Placed on an Education Mental Health Lead Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements on own organisation relating to mental health and wellbeing
- Assess the risk of emotionally demanding roles within own organisation
- Describe own organisational plan for delivering and monitoring staff training
- Recount how own organisation assesses need and monitors progress relating to mental health and wellbeing
- Understand the role of a mental health leader in own educational setting
- Review the role of a mental health leader or champion in own education setting
- Reflect on the links between different aspects of health, such as physical and mental, and how to promote this across the organisation
- Provide some examples of how their setting provides a cross-subject curriculum
- Reflect on own practice in working with others to connect policies and procedures
- Understand how to engage with pupils, parents and carers and the wider community
- Reflect on how to develop positive working relationships with parents and carers from a range of backgrounds
- Describe the process of co-producing or co-reviewing a whole-setting approach (provision, policy or resource) with all sectors of the pupil body, families and partner services (such as virtual schools or care)
- Describe how to support pupils to help each other or provide peer-led support
- Give examples of working in partnership with parents, carers, virtual schools or the local community to promote a wellbeing culture appropriate for in and out of school settings
- Recount an example of supporting/signposting to evidence-based resources to help parents and carers to develop skills in supporting their child
- Reflect on ways to build stronger links with statutory and independent mental health services, such as supporting them to shape their offering
Meeting the Responsibilities Placed on an Educational Leader Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements on own organisation relating to mental health and wellbeing
- Assess the risk of emotionally demanding roles within own organisation
- Describe own organisational plan for delivering and monitoring staff training
- Recount how own organisation assesses need and monitors progress
- Review the responsibilities and requirements of relevant inspections relating to mental health and wellbeing
- Review the health and safety requirements relating to mental health and wellbeing of staff within own organisation
- Understand the role of mental health leaders in own educational setting
- Review the role of mental health leaders and champions in own education setting
- Reflect on the links between different aspects of health, such as physical and mental, and how to promote this across the organisation
- Provide examples of how own setting provides a cross-subject curriculum
- Reflect on working with others to connect policies and procedures
- Understand how to engage with pupils, parents and carers and the wider community
- Reflect on developing positive working relationships with parents and carers from a range of backgrounds
- Describe the process of co-producing and co-reviewing a whole-setting approach (provision, policy or resource) with all sectors of the pupil body, families and partner services (such as virtual schools and care)
- Describe how to support pupils to help each other and provide peer-led support
- Give examples of working in partnership with parents, carers, virtual schools and the local community to promote a wellbeing culture appropriate for in and out of school settings
- Recount examples of supporting/signposting to evidence-based resources to help parents and carers develop their in supporting their child
- Reflect on how to build stronger links with statutory and independent mental health services, such as supporting them to shape their offering
Recognising Common Mental Health Difficulties in Others Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse common factors that can affect mental health, such as life events, risks, and factors in the environment
- Summarise common mental health difficulties in their environment
- Summarise the symptoms of someone in their environment who may be emotionally overwhelmed or in distress
- Describe common emotional coping mechanisms, factors that affect someone's ability to use them and other strategies or exercises they may use
- Reflect on initial actions that could be taken in their role to support someone experiencing poor mental health
- Reflect on services that can offer mental health assistance to their staff
- Explain the importance of signposting staff to the services identified in 5.1
- Reflect on how to monitor the impact of support or interventions offered to people experiencing difficulties
- Give an example of working with others to support inclusion in the workplace
Researching a Mental Health Leadership Topic Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake research into a mental health topic relevant to their role
- Analyse their selection of a topic and how it links to their workplace
- Select a variety of appropriate resources and reference materials related to the topic
- Apply the outcomes of their research to their role
- Present the outcomes of their research and its links to their role
- Identify actions they intend to take from their research
- Reflect on the impact of their research application
- Analyse the actions taken as a result of their research and their impact
Supporting Wellbeing in own Organisation Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand their role in contributing towards the mental health and wellbeing of their staff (and service users if appropriate)
- Review the importance of a mental health friendly manager or leader in contributing to culture and ethos
- Reflect on the qualities of a mental health friendly manager or leader
- Identify own developmental needs and actions they can take to address these needs
- Understand the priorities of mental health and wellbeing within their organisation
- Participate in or undertake a review of mental health and wellbeing in their organisation/team
- Produce an action plan for the priorities of mental health and wellbeing in their organisation/team
- Assess the impact of any changes they have made
- Understand how individuals, services and partner organisations may contribute to the culture and wellbeing of their staff
- Review the role of colleagues, services or potential partner organisations that could contribute towards the culture or wellbeing of staff and service users if appropriate
- Reflect on how they work with others to improve and sustain their approach
The Role of a Leader in Contributing Towards the Mental Health of Others Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Identify own values and attitudes towards mental health, including factors that may contribute towards these
- Give an example of how they have previously demonstrated an open and empathetic approach to understanding fluctuations of mental health
- Identify a range of stigmas and biases that may relate to people's response to poor mental health
- Recount how stigma and bias have affected someone’s response to the culture or poor mental health
- Identify actions that can be taken to tackle stigma or bias towards mental health in their environment, including the role of key stakeholders
- Reflect on how mental health leaders support their own mental health
- Identify evidence-based resources or sources of information that can support the mental health awareness of staff. May include tools, resources, information, services or supervision depending on individual situation
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Enable individuals and families to put informed choices for optimising their mental health and social well-being
- Standard
Identify the concerns, priorities and values of people and significant others in relation to their mental health and mental health needs
- Standard
Promote and manage staff wellbeing
- Standard
Work with teams and agencies to review progress
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 15 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Wellbeing & Mental Health Standards Associate
This role can lead to work designing wellbeing programmes and mentoring others, or to managing the wellbeing function and its strategy.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Open Awards rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Meeting the Responsibilities Placed on a Service ProviderMeeting the Responsibilities Placed on a WorkplaceMeeting the Responsibilities Placed on an Education Mental Health LeadMeeting the Responsibilities Placed on an Educational LeaderRecognising Common Mental Health Difficulties in OthersResearching a Mental Health Leadership TopicSupporting Wellbeing in own OrganisationThe Role of a Leader in Contributing Towards the Mental Health of Others
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Rehearse the conversation Apply
“Recognising Common Mental Health Difficulties in Others” is a conversation before it is a document. You have it with Zavmo playing the other person, badly at first, then again once you know what you actually want to say.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Researching a Mental Health Leadership Topic” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
- Lead it Apply
“Meeting the Responsibilities Placed on an Education Mental Health Lead” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Enable individuals and families to put informed choices for optimising their mental health and social well-being
- Identify the concerns, priorities and values of people and significant others in relation to their mental health and mental health needs
- Promote and manage staff wellbeing
- Work with teams and agencies to review progress
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Meeting the Responsibilities Placed on a Service Provider, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will review health and safety requirements relating to mental health and wellbeing within their organisation. The unit covers risk assessment of emotionally demanding roles, organisational policies, and evaluation of health and safety measures.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Open Awards Level 4 Certificate in Mental Health Aware Leadership (RQF)
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Open Awards.
- Meeting the Responsibilities Placed on a Service Provider
- Meeting the Responsibilities Placed on a Workplace
- Meeting the Responsibilities Placed on an Education Mental Health Lead
- Meeting the Responsibilities Placed on an Educational Leader
- Recognising Common Mental Health Difficulties in Others
- Researching a Mental Health Leadership Topic
and 2 more in the full unit list below.
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