In a first for the Scottish hotel Industry, Apex Hotels has partnered with MHScot Workplace Wellbeing C.I.C to deliver Scottish Mental Health First Aid courses throughout 2018 for members of the public.
The collaboration between Apex Hotels, who will provide training facilities at its Apex City of Edinburgh Hotel and MHScot, who will deliver the courses through trained instructors, came out of the hotel group’s drive to provide training and support to its own employees.
The open courses explore the meaning of mental health and provide attendees with the skills to speak confidently to both colleagues and friends who are experiencing poor mental health, and provide information on where to find help and support within the community.
Apex Hotels HR officer, Jennifer Matheson, was the first of the hotel group’s employees to take part in the two-day course in September 2017, and immediately saw the benefits it would bring to both Apex Hotels and the hotel industry in general, by tackling stereotypes and stigma that can come with low mental health within the workplace,
The first of the new series of courses this month was attended by 15 professionals companies and organisations including: Dentons, Scottish Widows, The Salvesen Mindroom Centre, The Spartans Football Club and The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals.
Those completing the full two-day course will be certified Mental Health First Aiders.
There are six more courses available throughout the year including March, May, September October November and December with a number of places open to the general public.
Apex is an independent hotel operator headquartered in Edinburgh.
Further information on the courses available here
