Training and building the capacity of our workforce to promote positive mental health and wellbeing is a key priority at a local and national level (Mental Health Strategy, 2017-2027). We must therefore ensure staff working with people across Greater Glasgow and Clyde are confident and equipped to support and promote positive mental health and wellbeing and respond to those in distress.
This page shares information on mental health training and capacity-building opportunities available across Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Building Mental Health Improvement Capacity across Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Running Your Own Mental Health Session
Healthy Minds
Healthy Minds is an awareness-raising resource that can be used by anyone to promote basic awareness and understanding of mental health. The sessions cover a variety of topics that can impact people’s mental health and wellbeing.
Materials include a PowerPoint presentation, speaker notes, and resources. You don’t need previous experience in training to deliver a session. They are completely free to download and adapt to suit your purposes: Healthy Minds Resource – NHSGGC.
Mental Health Improvement Training Pathway
The Mental Health Improvement, Self-harm and Suicide Prevention Training Pathway is a tool to encourage staff to progressively build their knowledge and skills relevant to their role and responsibilities in the area of mental health. The resource is not a training calendar but rather a reference and guidance document to help individuals, teams, and organisations explore potential training opportunities that are available.
Self-Directed Learning
There is a range of free online learning opportunities relating to Mental Health that cut across the life course: Online Learning Resources Update – Mental Health – NHSGGC
Online Harms Module: A free e-learning module that helps staff gain knowledge and resources around online safety concerns and understand how they can assist those they support in dealing with these issues and minimising their potential harm. Available via Turas for anyone with an email address.
Mental Health Improvement Training and Capacity Building Calendar
There are no training opportunities planned for the foreseeable future.
About us
The Mental Health Improvement Team are a Greater Glasgow and Clyde Board wide team who support our colleagues and partners across the six Health and Social Care Partnership areas; Glasgow City, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire and Inverclyde to deliver on the public mental health agenda. We are part of the wider Mental Health, Alcohol and Drugs Health Improvement team.
We use our evidence-based mental health improvement and early intervention frameworks (Adult and Child/Youth) to guide this work.
Our work spans across the life course, from infant and maternal health through to older adults and is underpinned by:
- Tackling poverty.
- Disadvantage and inequalities.
- Eliminating discrimination.
- Promoting and protecting human rights.
For further information on Equalities please visit the Equalities in Health page.
Healthy Minds Network
Healthy Minds is our professional network for those working in, or interested in, mental health improvement and anti-stigma work across NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. The network meets quarterly, and members come from those with an interest or remit for mental health and wellbeing within NHSGGC. This includes Local Authorities, voluntary / third sector, local workplaces, and others.
Network Aims
- Engage those with an interest or remit for mental health and wellbeing within NHSGGC, Local Authorities, voluntary / third sector, local workplaces, and others.
- Share best practice, information and disseminate evidence-based and evidence-informed practice.
- Provide an opportunity for seed funding for local initiatives and to identify other available funding sources.
- Provide opportunities for ‘joined up’ working on issues of local, regional and national interest.
For more information on the network, please email us at ggc.mhead@nhs.scot*.
*Please note that this is a generic admin inbox and not monitored immediately. If you, or someone you know are in distress and need an immediate response call the emergency services on 999 or NHS24 on 111.
Headline Reports
Below you will find six-month snapshots of our work:
Get in touch
If you have any questions about our team or our work, please get in touch with us by emailing ggc.mhead@nhs.scot.
Hosted Resources – these are resources hosted by IM on behalf of services where there has not been, for historical reasons, a dedicated microsite.
Public Health and Health Improvement Resources hosted by services elsewhere on the NHSGGC website. (direct links to documents and also pages hosting collections of documents e.g. where there are multiple formats and/or alternative language versions)
