Workplace Wellbeing Practitioner
Design a workplace wellbeing offer an employer can defend, starting from job design and referral, not from a gratitude journal.
Taught and assessed by
Owen BrightProfile pending contract
- Live teaching
- 16h
- Self-study
- 32h
- Duration
- 8 weeks
- Weekly load
- ~6h
What you will be able to do
- Map a wellbeing offer to the HSE management standards rather than to a wellness catalogue
- Write a referral route to occupational health, EAP and crisis services
- Evaluate an intervention with a measure an HR director can use
- Brief leadership without promising to fix stress that is a job-design problem
- Stay out of clinical work you are not qualified to do
- Price internal and consultancy work from a costed day rate
Who this is for
- HR and people professionals given a wellbeing brief they did not design
- Coaches selling workplace sessions who have never written an intervention
- Wellbeing leads who will be asked to prove the spend
- Managers building a first offer without becoming a clinic
Who this is not for
- Anyone seeking Mental Health First Aid instructor licensing from MHFA England
- Anyone who wanted first-contact protocol design — see Workplace MH First-Contact Training, which is still not MHFA
- Anyone whose spec requires a clinical or occupational-health qualification
- Anyone wanting a happiness diploma with no organisational content
What you need before you start
- Access to an organisation you can design for, or a realistic case we provide
- Willingness to have that design critiqued in the cohort
What you will actually learn
8 modules · 8 weeks · 16h live
Stress is a work-design problem firstThe HSE management standards as the spine, not a meditation script.
Covered in this module
- Demands, control, support, role, relationships, change
- What wellbeing cannot fix
- Legal duties, plainly
- What this programme is not
The map of an offerEAP, occupational health, line-manager skill, and the optional extras.
Covered in this module
- What already exists
- Duplication as harm
- Who owns the risk
- Budget honesty
Referral that would survive a serious incidentWriting the route before you need it, including crisis.
Covered in this module
- Occupational health
- EAP limits
- NHS and crisis
- Managers who over-promise
Interventions that can be evaluatedA session is not a programme. A programme needs a measure.
Covered in this module
- Leading and lagging indicators
- Surveys that lie
- Absence and turnover, used carefully
- Assessed design draft
Talking to leadershipThe conversation that funds the work, without wellness theatre.
Covered in this module
- Risk, not vibes
- What not to guarantee
- Unions and consultation
- Internal versus consultant
Mental Health First Aid and other licensed productsUseful tools you do not own, and must not relabel.
Covered in this module
- MHFA England licensing
- Coaching versus first contact
- Mindfulness at work, in scope
- Buying versus delivering
Menopause, neurodiversity and specific risksNamed topics employers now ask for, without turning you into a clinician.
Covered in this module
- When to bring a specialist
- Policy versus a talk
- Confidentiality
- Signposting
Assessment clinicLive critique of intervention designs.
Covered in this module
- Common fails
- Resubmission
- Day rates
- Your first retained client
Dates and timetable
Workplace Wellbeing Practitioner runs as a live cohort over 8 weeks. Pick the start date that fits — every cohort gets the same tutor, curriculum and assessment.
| Starts | Live sessions | Cap | Status and action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ends | Wednesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks | 20 | Choose this date → |
| Ends | Wednesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks | 20 | Choose this date → |
How you are assessed
A written workplace wellbeing intervention design, including HSE mapping, referral routes and an evaluation plan, marked by Owen Bright against a published rubric. Written feedback with one free resubmission. A mood-board of perks without job design does not pass.
Our accreditation applications are in progress. We do not display an accreditation mark before it is granted — see the current status.
After you pass
- Intervention-design template
- Practitioner directory listing on passing
What is a workplace wellbeing practitioner?
A workplace wellbeing practitioner designs and runs an organisational offer: job-design risks, referral routes, and interventions an employer can defend. They are not a therapist, not an occupational-health clinician, and not a licensed Mental Health First Aid instructor unless separately trained. The job is systems and signposting, not fixing people in a lunchtime talk.
Is workplace wellbeing a regulated profession in the UK?
No. There is no protected title of wellbeing officer. Employers still have legal duties for work-related stress under health and safety law. Training that ignores those duties and teaches only individual coping is incomplete. The HSE management standards are the practical frame, not a gratitude journal.
Sources
- HSE — What are the Management Standards — Health and Safety Executive
Is this Mental Health First Aid instructor training?
No. Mental Health First Aid England licenses that product. We do not. This programme trains you to design a wellbeing offer, including when MHFA is a useful purchase from the body that owns it. Relabelling their course as ours would be both dishonest and a licensing problem.
How is this different from a self-paced corporate-wellness diploma?
You submit an intervention design that can fail. The tutor has owned the brief inside UK organisations. A self-paced diploma can list perks and yoga. It cannot tell a people director whether your offer would survive a work-related stress risk assessment.
Common questions
Do I need to work in HR already?
No, but you need an organisation to design for — your employer, a client, or a realistic case we provide. Abstract wellbeing theory is not the assessment.
Will this qualify me as an occupational-health nurse or psychologist?
No. Those are clinical and regulated routes. This is organisational design.
Can I take this if I only wanted to run meditation at work?
If that is the whole job, the mindfulness programme is a better fit. This one will still make you map job design first.
Can I pay in instalments?
Yes. Interest-free plans total exactly £449.
Related reading
Workplace wellbeing training in the UK
What workplace wellbeing training should cover in the UK, how it differs from therapy, and why a happiness diploma is usually the wrong buy for an HR role.
CareerHow to become a workplace wellbeing lead
What a workplace wellbeing lead actually does in the UK, how that differs from therapy, and why a happiness diploma is usually the wrong buy.
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