The Mental Health Lead Toolkit is a comprehensive three-term step-by-step programme for implementing a whole-school culture of staff wellbeing and mental health. It is designed to be used by the School Mental Health Lead, or a member of staff in a similar position, to co-ordinate and steer whole-school staff and pupil mental health, to track its progress and to evaluate its success.
The Mental Health Lead Toolkit uses 'Heights' a learning management platform which divides the programme into 'Modules' which are then subdivided into 'Steps'. By following the six modules in sequence, the Wellbeing Lead follows a recognised path of whole-school change and is fully supported in the school's journey. The first two actions in the Mental Health Lead Toolkit are to conduct a survey and to create an action plan.
Fully customisable documentation is included with the Teach Well Toolkit, including emails to staff. The programme can be tailored to the needs of the school: it can be fully delivered or the school can choose to focus on particular modules or steps.
A licence for the Wellbeing Lead to an online progress and evaluation tool, the Wellbeing iAbacus, is provided with Teach Well Toolkit School Membership. Teach Well Toolkit School Membership provides a comprehensive support package to all staff in the school, including self-care wellbeing and mental health online courses; the Mini Medics Mental Health training course for Year 5; the Wellbeing and Mental Health Ambassador training for Years 5-10; discounts off a range of staff courses and qualifications and conferences; and a vault of resources and articles.
The Wellbeing iAbacus is available to individual Teach Well Toolkit members for 12 months for an additional fee of £48 (as of 29.11.22). All Senior Mental Health Leads who have participated in Teach Well Toolkit training are individual members of the Teach Well Toolkit for 12 months. The Wellbeing iAbacus enables the Wellbeing Lead to track progress during the implementation of the Mental Health Lead Toolkit, identify challenges, and plan how to overcome them. Progress can be monitored by simply moving beads along an assessment line (hence the name iAbacus) and typing notes into iAbacus. It also automatically generates a report which can be shared with staff.
If you are an individual school member and would like to purchase a 12-month licence to the Wellbeing iAbacus, please request an invoice for your school by completing the Google Form at https://forms.gle/Zvc2UvLdgoq9bsS39