This course is essential learning for health and social care staff who support people with mental health conditions, dementia or learning disabilities.

FREE course for stand visitors

This course will raise awareness and understanding of the signs and symptoms of mental health conditions, dementia and learning disabilities and explain how to help people to exercise their rights. It also provides guidance on delivering person-centred care and covers the fundamentals of capacity and consent.

• Understand the difference between mental wellbeing and mental ill health
• Recognise the conditions that affect mental health
• Appreciate the different roles of people who work in mental health
• Understand the signs and symptoms of different mental health conditions, dementia and learning disability
• Understand the importance of promoting positive health and wellbeing for an individual who may have a mental health condition, dementia or learning disability
• Recognise the importance of early detection Identify the adjustments which may be necessary in delivering person-centred care
• Understand legal frameworks, policy and guidelines relating to the treatment and care of mental health, dementia and learning disabilities.