Level 7 Award in Strategic Approaches to Mental Health and Wellbeing

In today's fast paced and high pressure world, wellbeing isn't a bonus - it's a business essential. This qualification shows leaders how to harness the powerful connection between wellbeing, organisational culture, and performance, and turn it into real, sustainable results.
You won't just understand the value of wellbeing - you'll learn how to embed it strategically, elevate your culture, and drive outcomes that inspire people and strengthen your organisation from the inside out.

Who This Course Is For:
Senior leaders and executives
HR and organisational development professionals
Programme managers and department heads
Anyone responsible for shaping organisational culture and strategy

Module 1. Strategic Approaches to Mental Health and Wellbeing
This dynamic unit gives leaders the insight and confidence to put wellbeing at the heart of organisational success. Leaders will explore how mental health directly influences performance, unpack the complexities of managing wellbeing at scale, and evaluate cutting edge approaches to building healthy, sustainable work systems.
The journey concludes with leaders designing practical, high impact recommendations to create and maintain a positive, thriving wellbeing culture-one that supports people, strengthens performance, and drives long term organisational success.

This qualification can be offered to Learners from age 19.

Centres are required to ensure that Learners admitted to the programme have sufficient capability at the right level to undertake the learning and assessment.

CMI Centres must ensure Learners are recruited with integrity onto appropriate qualifications that will:
- meet their needs
- enable and facilitate learning and achievement
- enable progression

GCSE's Maths and English A-C or an equivalent functional skills qualification at Level 2
Learners will be contact by course tutor and a formal assessment of the professional will be reviewed

Strategic Understanding of Mental Health & Wellbeing:
- Explore the importance of mental health in the workplace and its impact on organisational success
- Analyse current trends, legislation, and frameworks influencing wellbeing strategies
- Understand the role of leadership in shaping a positive organisational culture


Developing Organisational Wellbeing Strategies:
- Learn how to design and implement effective mental health and wellbeing strategies aligned to business goals
- Evaluate existing organisational approaches and identify areas for improvement
- Embed wellbeing into wider organisational policies and practices


Leadership and Culture:
- Develop leadership practices that promote psychological safety, resilience, and inclusion
- Understand how to lead by example and influence senior stakeholders
- Build a culture where wellbeing is openly discussed and supported


Identifying and Managing Workplace Risks:
- Recognise workplace stressors and mental health risks
- Learn how to assess and mitigate risks through strategic interventions
- Understand employer responsibilities around duty of care and employee wellbeing


Measuring Impact and Driving Continuous Improvement:
- Explore methods to evaluate the effectiveness of wellbeing initiatives
- Use data and feedback to inform decisions and improve outcomes
- Align wellbeing strategies with performance, engagement, and retention metrics

CMI Centres are encouraged to use a range of methods to ensure that all the learning outcomes and assessment criteria are met, and to enhance Learners' development. Assessment methods can include:
- Case studies
- Assignments
- Reports
- Integrated work activities
- Projects
- Presentations

The written word, however generated and recorded, is still expected to form the majority of assessable work produced by Learners at Level 3. The amount and volume of work for each unit at this level should be broadly comparable to a word count of 2000- 2500 words. Learner work should aim to minimise the amount of unnecessary attachments or appendices. Information that is essential to the Learners work in order to meet the learning outcomes and assessment criteria should be included within the main body of the report.

CMI Level 7 Diploma In Strategic Management and Leadership in Practice

CMI Membership involves making a commitment to your ongoing professional development. CMI provides a range of services to support you in this process, including our nationally recognised qualifications, the wealth of information available through our online resources, as well as routes to Chartered Manager and as your progress along your career journey.

These CPD resources can be accessed through your CMI Membership.

Strategic Approaches to Mental Health and Wellbeing

For further information please email HEenquiries@tcg.ac.uk

Although every care has been taken to ensure that the information contained within this document is accurate, there may be changes to this programme and provision. We will endeavour to keep prospective and current students updated where appropriate and when the information becomes available.