Health and Wellbeing

Health and Wellbeing

About the Health and Wellbeing Certificate

From workplace down to day to day life, promoting health and wellbeing is about promoting a quality lifestyle, building up confidence and talking a holistic approach to life. With a busier and more stressful lifestyle, the UK economy lost 12.5 million work days over 2016 – 2017 due to work-related stress, anxiety and depression.

The online course includes social, biological, psychological and medical aspects. The approximate time recommended for this course is 96 hours, however here at learndirect we understand each student is different. There will never be the pressure of a deadline looming over; you can take as little or as long you need to finish the course work.

Who should study this course?

This distance learning course would be of interest to anyone with an interest or working in social and health care. Carers and service users alike would find it useful as well. However, this course is equally suitable to any managers or business owners who would like to make a difference to their workplace.

As with most of our courses, you do not need any prior qualification or experience to enrol on this home study journey. All we ask of you is to have an interest in the subject and be able to access the materials.

What happens after the course?

With skills such as first-aid basics and stress management, this makes it an ideal qualification for anyone looking to improve the quality of life to staff or colleagues. Nowadays there is a recognised focus on improving the work-life balance in the corporate culture, and thus health and wellbeing is slowly coming into place in the modern workplace. As such businesses recognised the positive effects of a health and wellbeing policy with initiatives such as mindfulness sessions, fresh fruit available, or corporate gym memberships.

Top industries where employees report the highest impact of work-related stress are human health and social work activities, public administration and defence, and education. If you choose to take this health and wellbeing qualification, you could find that there is a very current need in wellbeing training for managers. HR managers and consultants that can correlate mental health and wellbeing with performance improvement and social-focused business coaching. As such some of the careers you could consider after this course include:

• Health & wellbeing officer
• Career coach
• Occupational health consultant

For more information about this course, give us a call on this number: 01202 006 464

Modules

Modern life-style problems

Human nutrition

Healthy eating

Stress management

Preventative health

Complementary medicine

Basic first-aid

For a more detailed syllabus on this course, click here

Entry Requirements

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.

All course fees, inclusive of all payment plans including our Premium Credit Limited option, must be settled before certification can be ordered.

*You will have access to the course for 24 months.

Assessment Method

After each lesson there will be a question paper, which needs to be completed and submitted to your personal tutor for marking. This method of continual assessment ensures that your personal tutor can consistently monitor your progress and provide you with assistance throughout the duration of the course.

On successful completion of your course you will receive the learndirect Certificate of Completion of Training in Health and Wellbeing.

Your course certificate will also state the number of CPD points/hours the course is eligible for.

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