Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Training Guide
The Health Improvement Team are pleased to announce the launch of our 2025/26 Training Guide for Mental Health Improvement and Suicide Prevention. Mental Health Awareness Week runs from 12 to 18 May 2025 and it’s the perfect time to consider brushing up your skills and knowledge.
This guide provides information on the wide range of training programmes available on the topics of mental health, emotional wellbeing and suicide prevention. The programmes detailed in the guide are relevant to Belfast Trust staff as well as the wider community.
This short video provides an overview of training available and how to choose the right course for you.
You can view the Training Guide here.
If you’re looking for information and resources regarding mental health don’t forget to look at the B Well website. The Mind Ur Mind section includes links to self-care tools and sources of support related to common mental health issues. You can also view the Page Tiger resource “Mind Ur Mind Toolkit for Staff and Managers” providing detailed information and you can also check out our range Self Help guides here.
For more information on the resources and programmes offered by the Health Improvement Team please visit our page here.
There is also training available for Belfast Trust staff from the Towards Zero Suicide team as detailed below. For more information on Towards Zero Suicide visit the Towards Zero Suicide Loop page.
Towards Zero Suicide- Level 1 Awareness
This eLearning module has been developed by Mersey Care NHS Trust, who are part of the Zero Suicide Alliance. It provides some fundamental information and tips that will help you to have a helping conversation with someone who may be thinking about ending their life. It takes just 20 minutes and could save a life. Suitable for All BHSCT staff and accessible LearnHSCNI | Towards Zero Suicide – Level 1 Awareness.
SHARE NI
This programme is for all staff working in mental health, to guide and assist in the area of information sharing. The aim of this training is to educate and provide guidance to support practitioners to work through the legal and clinical issues surrounding the sharing of information, to produce better outcomes and protect service users’ best interests. Open to all BHSCT Mental Health Staff. To access SHARE NI training, please visit: LearnHSCNI | SHARE NI eLearning (CEC)
Safety Planning- Collaborative & Stanley Brown
The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Harm has identified a decreased risk of suicide if a personalised risk management plan is in place. Help those in crisis create better prepared plans and safer environments that will help with their needs. Demonstrates how to use two regionally adopted safety planning invention models: Stanley Brown Safety Planning & Collaborative Safety Planning. To access this training please visit LearnHSCNI | SAFETY PLANNING – (Collaborative & Stanley – Brown) [BHSCT]
Suicide Prevention Formulation Training (CASE/PISANI)
For Band 5+ BHSCT Adult Mental Health Practitioners only. 2 part course that aims to educate staff in implementing best practice to support safer services and move away from risk prediction to risk prevention mentality. Staff gain understanding of: Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events (CASE) approach and Pisani Risk Formulation Tool as part of the You in Mind assessment. Part 1 (E-Learning): please register via https://forms.office.com/e/3iFj1Q1n66. Part 2 (F2F with the CEC): please self-register with CEC at https://cec.hscni.net/ (search for ‘Suicide Prevention NI: Regional Care Pathway’)