Moving & Handling – Full Day Course

24 September 2025 – bookings can be made through Business World

23 February 2026 – bookings can be made through Business World

Staff should attend this training at line managers request. This training is for new starts, those who have not completed this course before or whose certification has lapsed.

Refresher Training – 18 August or 20 October 2025 (am or pm)

Suicide Prevention Scotland are running two webinars on online harms and suicide prevention.

Session one will look at the Online Safety Act and social media, and session two will look at social media use in the aftermath of a suicide.

Full details can be found on Eventbrite:

Suicide Prevention Scotland: Online Harms Webinar – Session 1 of 2 Tickets, Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 2:00 PM | Eventbrite

Suicide Prevention Scotland: Online Harms Webinar – Session 2 of 2 Tickets, Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite

Please share these webinars with your networks.

The next course will take place on:

 

Dates	Wednesday 6th & Thursday 7th November 2024 You must be able to attend both days fully
Time	8.50am – 5pm
Venue	Tweed Horizons, The Tweed Horizons Business and Conference Centre, Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SG

 

This course is offered to you free of charge but it should be noted it costs us over £1200 from local suicide prevention funds to deliver each course, so can we please ask if you need to cancel please do so in a timely manner to allow us to try and fill any spaces.

 

The administration of ASIST courses has changed nationally and you now need to book through a link to the national portal (which I will provide below).  All bookings are on a first come first serve basis and we are unable to influence or prioritise who gets allocated places.  We also cannot access the portal to cancel any places so if you book a place and can no longer make the training please be sure to cancel your place via the portal. 

 

To book click here

 

Dates for the Self Harm and Suicide Prevention for Children and Young People Course have now been set.

2024

Tuesday 29^th October 1pm – 5pm

Thursday 21^st November 9am – 1pm

Thursday 5^th December 9am – 1pm

2025

Tuesday 4^th March 9am – 1pm

Thursday 27th March 9am – 1pm

Tuesday 27^th May 9am – 1pm

To book please contact:

Shirley Marr

Project Support Officer

Public Health, NHS Borders

Joint Health Improvement Team

Scottish Borders Council Headquarters

Newtown St Boswells

TD6 0SA

Phone:  07973728960 / 01835 825970

Email: shirley.marr@borders.scot.nhs.uk

Please see link below to the latest issue of the Heath and wellbeing Sway

May HWB Sway

 

***NEW TRAINING COURSE – SCOTLAND’S MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AIDER TRAINING***

Places are now available on this training course for mental health first aiders.

This training is being delivered by Borders Care Voice and will take place over two days on Thursday 6th June and Monday 10th June from 9.30am-5pm at Council HQ in Newtown. You will need to attend both days.

Please book your place through the course catalogue on Business World.

Why take the course?

This course is designed for everyone. It is interesting and varied and most participants tell us that they enjoyed it very much.

Five good reasons to attend SMHFA:

1. Most people don’t know what to do in a mental health crisis. Take the course and you will be one of the few who knows what to do and is confident about putting that knowledge into action.
2. You will learn how to recognise when a person might need help and the best way to approach them.
3. You could save a life by learning basic suicide intervention skills.
4. You will learn what protects your own and other people’s mental health.
5. You will learn new skills that are useful in every part of your life

Mental Health problems are not as frightening as most people think. When a person has a mental health problem what they need most is someone who can:

• listen calmly to their feelings and fears

• give some simple information

• tell them where to get appropriate help

It doesn’t sound too difficult does it?

This course is for everyone and participants use the skills they learn in all settings.

What will I learn on the course?

• How to apply the 5 steps of SMHFA

• How to respond if you believe someone is at risk of suicide.

• How to give immediate help until professional help is available.

• What to say and do in a crisis

• The importance of good listening skills

• Practice listening and responding

• Understanding recovery from mental health problems

• Understanding the connection between mental health problems and alcohol and drugs

• Understanding the connection between mental health problems and discrimination

• Some basic information about common mental health problems

• Self help information

What happens on a SMHFA course?

The course takes 12 hours and is run on two separate days. It is an interesting course that includes different activities, films, discussions and even some fun and laughter.

You will get a certificate of attendance and a colourful and interesting manual to take away with you at the end so that you can remind yourself of what you’ve learned.

The aims of SMHFA are:

• to preserve life

• to provide initial help

• to prevent the problem getting worse

• to promote recovery of good mental health

• to provide comfort

The course will give you the knowledge to apply these aims in a real life situation. corporate

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16th May, 4-5pm, MS Teams –  Secondary

30th May, 4-5pm , MS Teams – Primary

An overview of the Scottish context around the HWB curriculum – explore different ways to embed this in your context.

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