Welcome to the Supervisor Support Model, a brand-new online learning resource to support supervisors and line managers support their teams, and themselves.
This content has been specifically designed by subject matter experts to assist you to support and signpost your staff to ensure that they stay well and get the help they need.
As a supervisor or line manager you will know that your team’s performance can be affected by stress or sickness absence, and that these can be caused by a variety of factors.
This course is designed to help you spot the signs of ill health in your team and how to make sure they get the help they need. You will be provided with a wealth of external resources to refer to for yourself and your team, and we will cover the best way to talk to your supervisee and what to do next.
Your own health is important too, so we will be looking at how to care for yourself when supporting someone else.
Please note: This course does not qualify you to diagnose mental health conditions but will assist you to support and sign post your staff to ensure that they stay well and get the help they need.
What is it?
A module-based psychoeducation course to help you understand basic mental health issues, how best to support someone and how to signpost them to professional help. We will also provide you with information on how to look after yourself.
Who is it for?
This course is for supervisors and line managers of officers and staff to assist you with supporting your staff should their mental health be affected by their work or other factors.
What will you learn?
The course is split into eight modules which will cover the types of mental health conditions that colleagues may experience, signs and symptoms and how to best to support your supervisee. We will also cover topics such as assaults on staff and injury on duty, moral injury and embitterment and suicide.
Course modules:
Module 1. Stress and sickness in policing.
Module 2. Types of mental ill health
Module 3. Suicide
Module 4. Injury on duty, investigation and embitterment and moral injury
Module 5. How to have the conversation
Module 6. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Module 7. How and when to signpost staff
Module 8. How to look after yourself
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