Leadership for Mentally Healthy Workplaces module (NB20138)
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NB20138
This module is to be renamed "Leadership for Mentally Healthy workplaces" from January 2023
- SCQF Level: 8
- SCQF Credits: 15
- Total Student Effort: 150
- Available September, January and May
Mode of delivery
This module will be delivered online. All module materials will be delivered via the VLE. Students will be assigned e-activities and discussion will be monitored via discussion boards by module team members with experience in supporting students at a distance. There will be real time virtual sessions.
Module aims
To give leaders, managers, supervisors, or aspiring leaders knowledge and skills to support mental health and create a working environment that promotes positive mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
Module overview
On completion of this module student will have:
Knowledge and Understanding
- Gain a broad understanding of mental health
- Identify the key factors that contribute to a mentally healthy workplace
- Increase awareness of mental health issues in the workplace
- Develop skills to support staff who are experiencing mental ill health
- Know the responsibilities and role that managers and supervisors have in relation to mental health and wellbeing at work
Subject specific practical and intellectual skills
- Understand and evaluate sources of information and advice for mental health and workplace responsibilities.
Transferable, employability and enterprise skills and attributes
- Demonstrate the ability to exercise autonomy, accountability and leadership within the sphere of mental health in the workplace.
- Evaluate the role of business, employers and managers in mental health and wellbeing promotion, support and inclusion.
Assessment strategy
- Participation in the online discussion forum activities which will be 800 words in total.
- A 10-minute multi-media presentation using PowerPoint and a virtual online learning platform – Collaborate. This presentation will be a critical discussion of how learning from the module will be applied in their workplace and will involve answering questions relating to the content.
Module eligibility requirements
Have responsibility for a small or large team of people in any setting.
Module contact
For further information, please contact the School of Health Sciences
Telephone: +44(0)1382 388534
Email: HealthSciences-Postqualifying@dundee.ac.uk