--- title: Workplace Wellbeing Practitioner url: https://thestudyguild.com/programmes/workplace-wellbeing-practitioner type: programme published: 2026-08-13 last_reviewed: 2026-08-13 reviewed_by: owen-bright publisher: The Study Guild --- # Workplace Wellbeing Practitioner An 8-week live workplace-wellbeing programme with an assessed intervention design, taught by a CIPD-chartered people professional. ## Programme facts - Price: £449 (payment plans available, never discounted) - Format: Live online + self-paced - Live contact hours: 16 - Expected self-study hours: 32 - Duration: 8 weeks - Level: All levels - Tutor: owen-bright ## Learning outcomes - 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 ## Curriculum 1. **Stress is a work-design problem first** — The HSE management standards as the spine, not a meditation script. Topics: Demands, control, support, role, relationships, change; What wellbeing cannot fix; Legal duties, plainly; What this programme is not 2. **The map of an offer** — EAP, occupational health, line-manager skill, and the optional extras. Topics: What already exists; Duplication as harm; Who owns the risk; Budget honesty 3. **Referral that would survive a serious incident** — Writing the route before you need it, including crisis. Topics: Occupational health; EAP limits; NHS and crisis; Managers who over-promise 4. **Interventions that can be evaluated** — A session is not a programme. A programme needs a measure. Topics: Leading and lagging indicators; Surveys that lie; Absence and turnover, used carefully; Assessed design draft 5. **Talking to leadership** — The conversation that funds the work, without wellness theatre. Topics: Risk, not vibes; What not to guarantee; Unions and consultation; Internal versus consultant 6. **Mental Health First Aid and other licensed products** — Useful tools you do not own, and must not relabel. Topics: MHFA England licensing; Coaching versus first contact; Mindfulness at work, in scope; Buying versus delivering 7. **Menopause, neurodiversity and specific risks** — Named topics employers now ask for, without turning you into a clinician. Topics: When to bring a specialist; Policy versus a talk; Confidentiality; Signposting 8. **Assessment clinic** — Live critique of intervention designs. Topics: Common fails; Resubmission; Day rates; Your first retained client ## Assessment 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. ## Upcoming cohorts - 2026-10-28 to 2026-12-16 — Wednesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks (open, cap 20) - 2027-02-17 to 2027-04-07 — Wednesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks (open, cap 20) ## 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](https://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/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. --- Source: https://thestudyguild.com/programmes/workplace-wellbeing-practitioner · The Study Guild