Mental Health Lead Training: Teach Well Toolkit

What does the training involve?

The training is in two parts:

Part 1 is an online two-day course on Thursday, 16th October and Friday, 17th October 2025.

Part 2 consists of 6 months of support for you in your role as Senior Mental Health Lead as you build a whole-school culture of wellbeing and mental health, working with staff, pupils and the wider school community.

Included with the course is the Mental Health Lead Toolkit in our Padlet in the cloud. The Mental Health Lead Toolkit is a wellbeing and mental health service for staff in schools. One of the tools is our unique Teach Well Toolkit Programme which takes you step-by-step through a process of whole-school change.

You can also belong to a network of School Mental Health Leads via a private WhatsApp group, enabling you to share ideas and strategies with members of your course.

What is included in Part 1, the online training course?

Part 1: Online training course programme: 16th and 17th October 2025

DAY ONE WILL BE WEIGHTED TOWARDS CONTENT. DAY TWO WILL PROVIDE MORE TIME TO PLAN HOW YOU ARE GOING TO LEAD WELLBEING AND MENTAL HEALTH IN YOUR SCHOOL.

DAY 1

09.30 - 10.30 The whole-school role of the Senior Mental Health Lead.

10.30 - 11.00 Performing the role in your school context: Discussion and feedback.

11.00 - 11.15 Break.

11.15 - 12.30 The causes of staff and pupil mental ill-health: two sides of the same coin.

12.30 - 13.00 Lunch.

13.00 - 14.00 Mental Health in the formal and hidden curriculum.

14.00 - 15.00 Identifying staff and pupil mental health needs: Whole-school strategies.

15.00 - 15.30 Action planning.

DAY 2

09.30 - 09.45 Recap of Day 1 and questions.

09.45 - 10.30 Whole-school change in wellbeing and mental health: Applying Kotter's 4 Principles and 8 Accelerators

Accelerators 1-4

1. Creating a sense of urgency.

2. Building a guiding coalition.

3. Forming a strategic vision and initiatives.

4. Enlisting a volunteer army.

10.30 - 10.45 Action planning.

10.45 - 11.00 Summary and feedback.

11.00 - 11.15 Break.

Kotter's 4 Principles of Organisational Change

11.15 - 12.30 Whole-school change in wellbeing and mental health: Applying Kotter's 4 Principles and 8 Accelerators

Accelerators 5-8

5. Enabling action by removing barriers.

6. Generating short-term wins.

7. Sustaining acceleration.

8. Instituting change.

12.30 - 13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 13.15 Action planning.

13.15 - 13.30 Summary and feedback.

13.30 - 14.15 Supporting pupil mental health.

14.15 - 15. 30 Supporting staff mental health.

15.30 - 15. 45 Action planning.

15.45 - 16. 00 Plenary and close.

[A copy of Waters, (Ed) (2021) Cultures of Staff Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools Open University Press/McGraw-Hill is included with the course]

What does part 2 of the training involve?

Part 2 of the training supports you to build a whole-school culture of staff and pupil wellbeing and mental health in your role as Mental Health Lead.

Our unique Mental Health Lead Toolkit contains everything you will need to lead whole-school change, including documents, research into mental health in schools, customisable emails to staff, and our Teach Well Toolkit Programme.

Whether you are new to leading whole-school change or have experience, the Teach Well Toolkit Programme gives you the support you need. There are 8 online modules in total, with 24/7 access.

You also have our unlimited email support for 6 months.