Mental Health Training and Professional Development

At schoolED Safe we are committed to ensuring schools can support the MHW of staff.

We currently offer a range of mental health and wellbeing supports, training and professional development which can be individualised to your setting or made part of your OHS subscription with us. We can also support school leadership to unpack school staff survey results and plan a way forward.

schoolED can work with leaders (in consultation with employees) to:

  • Identify psychosocial hazards

  • Assess the level of risk

  • Develop a risk control plan

  • Monitor and review the risk control plan

schoolED can support organisational-level interventions:

  • Organisational culture and values

  • Staff engagement

  • Psychological safety and trust

  • Recruitment process around interpersonal competencies and emotionally demanding nature of the work

  • Staff induction process

  • Staff reporting of psychosocial hazards

  • Meaningful recognition and reward systems

  • Meaningful employee feedback systems

  • Establish procedures and action models to deal with violence, abuse and harassment at work

  • Measure and address the level of job control, physical and psychological job demands, and autonomy of employees; and think through work redesign

  • Developing a plan for supporting people returning to work from injury

  • Understand student challenging behaviour and develop policies and processes

Policy development:

  • Workplace bullying

  • Occupational violence

  • Student challenging behaviour

  • Family violence leave

  • Promoting mental wellbeing

  • Psychosocial risk assessment

  • Reporting of psychosocial hazards and incidents

  • OHS risk register

  • Performance management

  • Rewards and recognition

  • Professional development

  • Work-life balance (or integration); flexibility in the workplace

  • Employee feedback

  • Code of conduct

  • Develop a generic psychosocial risk induction module individualised for your school

A graduate program for teachers at the beginning of their careers: