Organisations need people who can listen, signpost and stop. Marketplace diplomas still borrow Mental Health First Aid's name for that job. We run assessed first-contact practice and protocol design. We do not license MHFA instructors. MHFA England is the only organisation in England able to provide that licensed instructor training. The verdict upfront: if the spec named MHFA England, buy MHFA England. If you needed a protocol your organisation can defend, that is us.
Part of Workplace wellbeing.
Design and practise first-contact conversations at work, without passing the cohort off as MHFA England instructor licensing.
Not for: Anyone seeking Mental Health First Aid instructor licensing from MHFA England
£399or from £66.50/mo, interest-free
A conversation that signposts rather than treats, named routes to occupational health, EAP and crisis services, and a protocol mapped to job-design duties. Coping tips without workload are incomplete. If the provider implies you may teach Mental Health First Aid after a generic diploma, that is passing off, not training.
Our Workplace Mental Health First-Contact Training marks recordings and a protocol. For HSE-aligned intervention design, see Workplace Wellbeing Practitioner.
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No. MHFA is a specific licensed curriculum. Instructor training is sold by MHFA England. First-contact protocol design is a different product. Completing ours does not authorise you to teach theirs. A bio that mixes the two is how organisations buy a trademarked course they did not actually get.
| Goal | Buy this | Skip this |
|---|---|---|
| MHFA instructor | MHFA England | Any generic wellness diploma |
| Defendable first-contact protocol | Workplace MH First-Contact Training | Happiness diploma |
| Job-design wellbeing offer | Workplace Wellbeing Practitioner | Gratitude as risk assessment |
Anyone whose spec named MHFA England instructor membership. Anyone planning to treat colleagues. Anyone who only needed a lunchtime briefing. Anyone who wanted to become a counsellor on the company's time. First contact is the right buy for signposting. It is the wrong buy for a licensed brand or a clinical career.
Skip also if you needed occupational-health registration. See the parent workplace wellbeing hub.
If the spec named MHFA England, stop. First-contact protocol design is a different purchase, and job-design wellbeing is a third. A diploma that implies all three is passing off a licensed curriculum as a generic HR badge.
Because we are not licensed to. MHFA England is. We teach first-contact protocol design and say so.
No. It signposts. Counselling is a different career with placement hours.
An 8-week live first-contact programme for workplaces, taught by an occupational psychologist who will not sell MHFA England's licensed product.
SubjectWhat 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.
ProgrammeAn 8-week live workplace-wellbeing programme with an assessed intervention design, taught by a CIPD-chartered people professional.
CareerWhat a workplace mental-health first-contact role can honestly do, why it is not MHFA instructor licensing, and how it differs from being a therapist.
AnswerMHFA England is the only organisation in England able to license MHFA instructor training. A generic wellness diploma cannot confer that status.
ProgrammeAn 8-week live counselling-skills programme with marked recordings, taught by a BACP-registered counsellor, explicitly not counsellor training.