Booking now to March 2024: A practical introduction to implementing a whole school approach (WSA)
£1,200 of grant funding is available for each delegate. Our two day course costs just £795.
SPECIAL OFFER! This term we are offering delegates free access to our Foundation in Mental Health course, with spaces available on 7th February 2024. Let us know which date you would like to attend when you book.
Delegates will
- Complete an audit of the school against the Whole School Approach Principles and an Action Plan during the course.
- Get follow-up support via one-to-one consultations with the course trainer.
- join once-a-term group Community in Practice discussions, led by Positive Effect and including other SMHLs.
You will have…
- An effective strategic action plan, aligned to the eight WSA principles.
- The skills and knowledge to assess and monitor need and identify appropriate interventions, using evidence-based tools and feedback to measure outcomes.
- The ability to ensure strong and lasting whole school engagement by adopting effective strategies and holistic approaches.
Training with Compass is built on our decades of experience as a charity, dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people.
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Our course is
- Assured for DfE grant funding, to cover the entire £795* course cost and contribute to teaching cover
- CPD approved
- Delivered online or face to face* to small cohorts of 4-8 delegates
- Designed for beginners – senior mental health leads who are new to the role or have not previously completed senior mental health leadership training
- Completed within six weeks – consisting of 2 six-hour days, 1 hour consultation and self-paced action planning
- Practical – drawing on our experience of what works, through delivering services that support the development of whole school approaches and provide interventions to pupils with low to moderate mental health needs.
It’s for
- Beginners
- Newly appointed Senior Leads or those with no previous mental health leadership training
- Senior Leads in any education setting
* We can deliver face to face training across most of England, trainer travel expenses will be added to the course cost. Please email positiveeffect@compass-uk.org for face to face training enquires.
Feedback from delegates
“A great 2 day start. Felt the chunking down of the audit tool action planning was a great help and avoided feeling overwhelmed…” “…by the end of the course [I was] very confident and looking forward to putting actions in to place to discuss in our 1-1 in the next 6 weeks.” “It was extremely motivating Thank you so much – loved the two days.” “… a high quality CPD. “ “Can’t wait to make progress with things back in school.” “I now feel confident to tackle the audit tool/action plan.” “I will be recommending this course to our cluster schools. Thank you.” Read full course testimonials here
Course length
- 13 hours (2 days + 1 hour consultation)
- Ongoing community in practice peer networking webinars
- Online or face to face delivery
- Interactive discussion
- Group activity
- Review and reflection
- Action planning
- Read more – Practical action planning and ongoing support for each delegate
- Read our continuous improvement statement and policy
Your learning outcomes
- Awareness of the key roles and responsibilities needed within your educational environment
- Understanding of how to embed approaches that identify and respond to pupil’s / student’s mental health
- Knowledge of the key actions needed to embed emotional health and wellbeing change
- Knowledge of how to create healthy environments
- Awareness of the solutions to barriers within the workforce
- Understanding of mental health policy and procedure
- Read our full transformation statement
Course codes (required to obtain funding)
- Online: SMHL035
- Face to face: SMHL122
We deliver with confidence
The course is built on our many years’ experience of supporting schools and colleges to improve their pupil, student and staff mental health and wellbeing through low cost or no cost approaches.
Our charity delivers multiple services that support the development of whole school approaches and provide interventions to pupils with low to moderate mental health needs. We successfully run our training and consultancy arm, Positive Effect, for multiple national, private and public sector clients.
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