Two Day First Aid for Mental Health Training: Level 3
Advanced Leadership in Workplace Mental Health
This is the most advanced level of workplace mental health training we offer. Over two days, learners move beyond awareness and supportive conversations to explore the more complex situations, responsibilities and decisions that can arise when taking a lead on mental health at work.
For anyone who will take a lead, whatever their job title.
The course explores mental health risk, complex situations, workplace support and recovery, psychological safety and the part leadership at every level plays in creating a healthier workplace culture.
Learners develop the confidence to respond appropriately while understanding boundaries, escalation and organisational responsibility.
Anyone can take this level. What matters is the part someone will play in how your organisation responds, not how senior they are.
Three learning outcomes. Twelve leadership capabilities.
Level 6 asks more of learners than the levels below it: not just what to do, but why, on whose authority and where the limits of the role sit.
Legal, ethical and organisational responsibility
Complex conditions, risk and workplace support
Stigma, psychological safety and culture
Tested against the situations leaders actually dread
Learners work through a case study of a senior manager supporting an employee who discloses self-harm and asks for it to be kept confidential: what to do, how to hold the conversation, what adjustments to consider, where the boundaries of the role sit and why a disclosure like that changes the decision. It is the difference between having a policy and knowing what to do at four o'clock on a Friday.
Depth, not just more hours.
Building on Levels 4 and 5, this course covers a significantly wider range of mental health conditions, including complex, less common but high-impact presentations that people trained at lower levels may encounter but won't be prepared for.
Learners also gain a detailed understanding of the therapies and professional support a person might receive during treatment, so they can provide genuinely informed guidance rather than generic signposting.
It includes an explicit focus on the organisational infrastructure question, because putting people in a supporting role without the right structures around them sets everyone up to fail.
How the two days are taught
Course details
Two full days of interactive training.
RQF Level 3 equivalent.
On your site, online, or we can provide a venue for you.
Minimum age 14. Larger groups trained in cohorts.
For the whole group, not per head.
Our maximum group size for this course.
Want a date in the diary, or training for your team?
Book a free callJoin an open course
Not training a whole team? You can book yourself, or a colleague or two, onto one of our open courses at our own training centre in Glasgow. Groups are kept small so everyone gets time to practise.
Tuesday and Wednesday
Orchard Park Training Centre, Glasgow
SCQF Level 6 · RQF Level 3 equivalent
Tuesday and Wednesday
Orchard Park Training Centre, Glasgow
SCQF Level 6 · RQF Level 3 equivalent
When you request a place, tell us which date you'd like. We'll get in touch to confirm your place and talk you through the next steps. Looking for something shorter? Our half day awareness course also has open dates.
What people say after the two days
Level 3 mental health first aid: your questions answered.
Is this a Level 3 mental health first aid qualification?
Yes. Level 3 Advanced Leadership in Workplace Mental Health is credit rated and recognised by Qualifications Scotland, with levels that are equivalent to the RQF in England. Because delegates are assessed, their certificate shows they achieved the standard, not just that they attended.
How are delegates assessed?
Through role play scenarios, where they practise a real supportive conversation; case studies, where they work through a scenario and explain their thinking; and a multiple choice and short answer assessment.
Who should take Level 3?
Anyone who will take a lead in how your organisation responds to mental health, whatever their job title. Some people move up from Level 2, and some organisations start here.
What does Level 3 cover that Level 2 does not?
It goes further into complex conditions, suicide prevention, crisis response and the organisational structures that make first aid work in practice.
How long is the course?
Two full days of interactive training.
Can it be done online?
Yes. It can be delivered fully online or fully in person. We do not mix the two, with some people in the room and others on screen, because neither group gets the experience they need. See online mental health first aid training.
How much does it cost?
The price covers the whole group, not each person: £2,495 for up to 12 people or £2,995 for up to 16. All prices include VAT. See our guide to mental health first aid training costs for what should be included.
How long does the certificate last?
Three years. We strongly recommend a short refresher every year so the skills stay fresh, and we can run refresher training for your first aiders.
Is there a minimum age?
Delegates need to be 14 or over.
Do you run this training for construction and engineering teams?
Yes. We have a pathway built for construction, engineering and energy, delivered on site and shaped around shifts, safety critical work and life on site. See mental health first aid for construction.
Where this sits in the bigger picture.
Awareness for everyone, responding skills for those who support others, and this course for the people leading your approach.
Lead on mental health with something more than good intentions.
Tell us about your organisation and we'll talk through dates, logistics and pricing. No hard sell, just a straightforward conversation about what you need.
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