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Example profile of mental health first-aider

Learn how a mental health first aider supports employee wellbeing, with clear responsibilities, boundaries, and role expectations.

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Use this model document to define the role of a mental health first aider within your organisation. It outlines the purpose of the role, key responsibilities, boundaries and the support mental health first aiders can provide to employees experiencing mental health difficulties. The profile can be used to recruit and brief volunteers, while also helping the wider workforce understand how mental health first aiders contribute to employee wellbeing and where their responsibilities begin and end.

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About the author

Stephen Simpson
Stephen Simpson
Principle Editor – Employment Law and Compliance

Stephen is a principal editor who has worked on the Brightmine employment law and leading practice resources for over 20 years. After growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, he trained as a solicitor in England in the 1990s but soon moved into legal publishing. He was among the first recruits to Brightmine in the year before it was launched as XpertHR in 2002.

Stephen has worked on a wide range of employment law and leading practice resources, including overseeing the creation and expansion of the HR templates resource types (Policies and procedures, Letters and forms, and Contract clauses). He has written up over 1,000 reports on employment law cases and created practical guidance on a range of HR issues for the Commentary & insights tool. He also had a stint working on Personnel Today.

Areas of expertise:

Employment law, Family leave, Discrimination, Redundancy, Unfair dismissal, HR policies, Employment case law

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