About our ready-to-run training

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The easiest way to book our training for your team:

1. Place your order and pay now via debit / credit card or request an invoice,

2. We'll contact you to agree a delivery time that suits you and your organisation,

3. We'll send you the details of your session and a Microsoft Teams link for you to provide to your attendees, then we'll deliver the session live and online,

4. After the session, you will receive a report of the feedback from your participants and a copy of the course materials to share with those who attended.

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This is a 2-hour training session. We will agree a specific start time that works for you.

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About this session

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While it is rare for each of us, in our work with students, to encounter a student who talks about feeling suicidal, this can happen, and it is really useful to know what to do and how to respond in these rare situations. This is a practical 2-hour online session which explores these issues and helps you feel more confident about having these interactions, should the need arise.

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Who is this session for?

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This session is relevant to teams and cohorts who work with students in higher education and who might find themselves responding to a student in distress who mentions suicide.

 

This includes:

• Academics – such as personal tutors, module leaders, and lecturers

• Professional services practitioners – such as disability advisers, welfare advisers, finance advisers, or international student advisers

• Colleagues working in a university enquiry service, a faculty or service front desk team, or a university helpdesk

• Accommodation staff

• Security officers

• Colleagues managing student conduct cases

• Managers of student-facing teams who may need to support their team members to respond effectively to a distressed student

• Students' union advisers

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While this training is aimed at higher education, colleagues in further education or other similar settings will also find the content very relevant.

 

Learning outcomes

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By the end of this event, participants will:

• Understand what a student might say that indicates potential suicidality and understand some of the factors that might make a student more risky

• Explore how we might feel in these rare cases

• Understand what an effective response to these cases looks like, bearing in mind the boundaries of our roles