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Suicide First Aid: Understanding Suicide Intervention

  • £160+VAT Per Delegate
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Course Overview

Suicide First Aid: Understanding Suicide Intervention

Suicide First Aid Virtual is available as a one day or half day ‘Lite’ training programme for up to 16 participants.

The one day course is accredited by City & Guilds, making it the route to the UK’s only national qualification in Suicide Prevention.

The programme is evidence-based, interactive, and covers both theory and practical skills.

One Day – Participants learn and practice the skills needed to identify someone who may be thinking about suicide, and to competently intervene to help create a safe plan, as a first aid approach.

Half Day Lite – Gives learners the knowledge and tools to understand that suicide is one of the most preventable deaths and some basic skills to help someone with thoughts of suicide stay safe from their thoughts and stay alive.

Course content

  • The impact and value of personal and professional experience with suicide
  • Barriers that prevent people at risk seeking help
  • Prevalence of suicide thoughts and suicide behaviours
  • The Signs of Suicide and the Suicide-Safety Guide
  • Partnership working and community resources

Methods of delivery
Taught as a half-day or full-day course (either face-to-face or online), using tutor-facilitated Socratic learning, tutor-led role- play, mini lectures, group work and audio-visual presentations.

Learning outcomes:

  • Suicide behaviour; reasons and magnitude of the community health problem.
  • Role of the carer in managing suicide interventions; different roles with different people
  • Understand approaches and process of suicide intervention including desired outcomes
  • Understand the importance of self-reflection and personal impact when working with suicide and people at risk

Pre-training requirement:
No previous experience or training is necessary. Participants will be asked to self-reflect and empathise with a person having thoughts of suicide.

Who should attend?
Multi-sector practitioners including health, housing, social care, education, criminal justice, call centre operators, private, voluntary and public sector workers and community members.

Accreditation
The One-Day participants will gain 6 QCF credit points at Level 4 by completing a workbook of tasks that are assessed against the set learning outcomes.

The qualification costs £95* per learner (optional and extra to the course fee of £160+VAT).

*A small administration fee will apply

How to book on our courses

Please complete our booking form or contact our office at [email protected] or 01226 777520/07833 470979.

In-house courses

If you’d like to discuss our in-house training options please contact us.

Discounts

A 5% discount is available to students, volunteers, third sector organisations, and bookings of more than one place (or course). Proof of concessionwill be required at point of booking.

Register Your Interest

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Fill in the form below to register your interest, and we’ll be in touch as soon as new dates become available.
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Terms & Conditions

Please advise us in advance if the learner(s) has any special requirements that require reasonable adjustments to be made for the course to be accessible.

Where a course provides lunch and refreshments, this includes dietary requirements (open face-to-face courses only). We will endeavour to cater for all learner needs but we do require notification in advance.

Learners are required to arrive at the course in good time. If the learner is unable to attend on the day of training due to unforeseen circumstances, we will still apply a charge, as we still incur costs for the training provision, and will not be able to offer the place to another client.

Cancellations

Mind Matters reserves the right to cancel or alter the dates or provision of service, the venue (open face-to-face courses only), and the trainer providing the course. In the event of a cancellation, bookings will normally be transferred to the next available course unless the client specifically requests otherwise. As this is the case, we recommend you DO NOT book travel or accommodation until you receive our joining instructions (around 1-2 weeks before the start date), which confirms the training is going ahead.

If a booking is cancelled or transferred to a different course by the client, Mind Matters Training reserves the right to apply the following charges: Notice Given by Client % of course fee levied by Mind Matters

More than 15 days 0%

7-14 days 25%

3‐7 days 50%

2 days or less 100%

Non‐attendance without notice 100%

Telephone cancellations can be accepted but must be confirmed immediately in writing (by email).

Payments

Please ensure that payment is received within 30 days of the invoice &/or before the training/event – whichever is sooner.
Training certificates will not be dispatched until full payment is received.

Lunch & Refreshments

For full day face-to-face open courses, lunch and refreshments are provided to learners. If your course is being delivered in-house, this is something you may wish to provide the learners at a cost to your organisation.

Please advise us in advance if delegate(s) have any special dietary requirements, any disabilities that would impact upon the course or any communication barriers that would impact upon the training course. We will endeavour to cater for everyone but we do require notification in advance.

Delegates are required to arrive at the course in good time. If the delegate is unable to attend on the day of training due to unforeseen circumstances we will still have to charge you as we still incur the costs and will not be able to sell the place to another client.

 
 

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