SQA Mental Health and Wellbeing Award SCQF 4 & 5

Course description

The Mental health and wellbeing awards seek to address the inaccuracies surrounding perceptions of mental health and, instead, provide accurate information, promote understanding and equip learners with positive coping strategies to improve and maintain mental health and wellbeing. Learners will develop broad, generic skills through this course. The skills that learners will be expected to improve on and develop through the course are based on SQA’s Skills Framework: Skills for Learning, Skills for Life and Skills for Work and drawn from the main skills areas listed below. These are built into the course where there are appropriate opportunities. • Literacy Reading • Health and wellbeing Personal learning Emotional Wellbeing Planning for, and making, choices and changes • Employability, enterprise, and citizenship Citizenship • Thinking skills Understanding Applying This course is instructor led On completion learners will be awarded a certificate for the SQA Mental Health and Wellbeing award at SCQF level 5. Which will be posted out The level 5 award could provide progression to: an NC in Health and Social Care an SVQ 2/Modern ApprenticeSCQF level 6 / QCF level 3 qualifications ship in Social Services and Healthcare employment in the care sector This Award provide opportunities to develop: Core Skills (which underpin all National Certificates) transferable skills. Attainment of the qualification can provide opportunities to those who have been long term unemployed due to poor Mental Health as it will give you the tools to build resilience and learn health coping strategies.