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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Open Awards has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Open Awards awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Open Awards.
The Open Awards Level 4 Certificate and Diploma in Mental Health Aware Leadership provide learners with knowledge and skills relevant to mental health leadership across various settings such as education and service provision. They are designed for individuals in leadership roles aiming to promote mental health awareness in their organizations.
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.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Open Awards. It does the teaching and the mapping. Open Awards sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Implementing a Mental Health Strategy Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Implement a mental health strategy effectively.
Meeting the Responsibilities Placed on a Service Provider Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the responsibilities of service providers in mental health.
Meeting the Responsibilities Placed on a Workplace Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Assess workplace requirements for mental health management.
Meeting the Responsibilities Placed on an Education Mental Health Lead Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of educational leaders in mental health.
Meeting the Responsibilities Placed on an Educational Leader Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the role of education leaders in mental health promotion.
Monitoring and Reporting a Mental Health Strategy Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor the implementation of their mental health and wellbeing strategy
- Plan monitoring arrangements for their mental health and wellbeing strategy
- Monitor the changing whole-organisation or team wellbeing needs
- Implement their identified monitoring practices
- Report on the implementation of their mental health and wellbeing strategy
- Work with key stakeholders to identify reporting requirements for their role
- Produce a report related to their mental health and wellbeing strategy
Recognising Common Mental Health Difficulties in Others Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the common mental health difficulties experienced by individuals.
Researching a Mental Health Leadership Topic Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct effective research on mental health leadership.
Supporting Wellbeing in Own Organisation Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Implement strategies to support mental wellbeing in an organisation.
The Role of a Leader in Contributing Towards the Mental Health of Others Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the role of leaders in promoting mental health.
Understanding staff well-being Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise factors affecting staff wellbeing in their environment
- Identify factors affecting staff wellbeing in their environment
- Explain how the support offered reflects staff voice
- Identify staff wellbeing needs
- Explain how to promote the existing support for staff wellbeing
- Identify the impact of staff wellbeing support
- Identify methods used to monitor use of support offered
- Reflect on the impact of supporting staff wellbeing on others, including staff, clients, service users, pupils or the community
Using a Cross-Curriculum Approach Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of a cross-curricular approach to wellbeing.
- Reflect on the importance of a cross-curricular approach.
- Describe actions that could be taken to develop wellbeing teaching in other subjects.
- Explain at least one method that could be used to monitor the impact of curricular changes.
- Reflect on others’ developmental needs to improve the quality of teaching to support a cross-curricular approach.
- Understand the role of mental health and wellbeing in the PSHE curriculum.
- Reflect on the impact of embedding mental health and wellbeing into the PSHE curriculum.
- Assess how the wellbeing content of the PSHE curriculum could be tailored to reflect a local need.
Working with pupils, families and communities on a Mental Health Strategy Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the impact of different backgrounds.
- Identify different cultures and backgrounds in their community.
- Reflect on the impact cultures and backgrounds have on pupils and families.
- Identify possible barriers to working with pupils, families, and the community.
- Identify barriers faced when working with pupils, families, and the community.
- Reflect on how to overcome barriers.
- Recognise the impact of engagement with pupils, families and the community.
- Reflect on examples of successful engagement with pupils.
- Reflect on examples of successful engagement with families or the community.
Writing a Mental Health Action Plan Real unit · Open Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Identify own organisation needs related to mental health and wellbeing
- Identify the organisational strengths and weaknesses related to mental health and wellbeing, possibly using an established tool or audit
- Record evidence of how they have reached this judgement
- Prioritise the areas of development identified in this process
- Complete an in-depth action plan related to mental health and wellbeing in their organisation
- Plan actions related to the priority areas of development
- Identify key stakeholders for their intended actions
- Identify appropriate timescales and stages if necessary for their intended actions
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.
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Co-produce action plans to assist stakeholders in improving environments and practices to promote mental health
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Monitor and review changes in environments and practices to promote mental health
- Standard
Monitor, evaluate and improve processes for delivering health and wellbeing services to a population
- Standard
Promote and manage staff wellbeing
- Standard
Work Co-productively to Implement Action Plans for Improving Environments and Practices to Promote Mental Health
- Standard
Work in partnership with others to make a preliminary assessment of the impact of policies and strategies on health and wellbeing
- Standard
Work in partnership with others to monitor and review strategies for improving health and wellbeing
- Standard
Work with people and significant others to develop services to improve their mental health
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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Where this can lead
Wellbeing Coordinator
This role can lead into senior wellbeing management, wellbeing strategy work, or a broader HR business partner role.
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
Implementing a Mental Health StrategyMeeting 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 LeaderMonitoring and Reporting a Mental Health StrategyRecognising Common Mental Health Difficulties in OthersResearching a Mental Health Leadership Topic
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.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Implementing a Mental Health Strategy” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Monitoring and Reporting a Mental Health Strategy” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- 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.
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.
- Co-produce action plans to assist stakeholders in improving environments and practices to promote mental health
- Monitor and review changes in environments and practices to promote mental health
- Monitor, evaluate and improve processes for delivering health and wellbeing services to a population
- Promote and manage staff wellbeing
- Work Co-productively to Implement Action Plans for Improving Environments and Practices to Promote Mental Health
- Work in partnership with others to make a preliminary assessment of the impact of policies and strategies on health and wellbeing
- Work in partnership with others to monitor and review strategies for improving health and wellbeing
- Work with people and significant others to develop services to improve their mental health
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 Implementing a Mental Health Strategy, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit focuses on the implementation of strategies to improve mental health within organisations.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Open Awards Level 4 Diploma in Mental Health Aware Leadership (RQF)
14 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Open Awards.
- Implementing a Mental Health Strategy
- 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
- Monitoring and Reporting a Mental Health Strategy
and 8 more in the full unit list below.
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