This Melbourne MicroCert is ideal for any professional who supports workplace wellbeing.

This includes psychologists and counsellors, medical practitioners, allied health professionals, HR professionals, managers, and workplace wellbeing managers.

To enrol in the course, you require a bachelors degree or equivalent work experience in a relevant field, or be a registered health professional. You should also have some existing knowledge of workplaces and wellbeing-related issues.

This course has been developed in close consultation with industry to ensure your learning matches real-world needs.

It's aligned with industry standards and registration frameworks, including those of the Australian Psychological Society.

Whatever your sector, you'll gain the skills and knowledge needed to develop evidence-based programs, workshops, recommendations for work practice and culture changes, and other opportunities to systemically improve worker and workplace wellbeing.

Successfully completing this Melbourne MicroCert will demonstrate your commitment to improving workplace wellbeing, potentially helping to advance your own career.

By the end of this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of how to implement and enhance workplace wellbeing practices. You'll be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of worker and workplace wellbeing principles and issues, including the effects of workplace culture and threats to worker safety such as stress and burnout
• Gain skills in worker and workplace wellbeing problem identification and resolution including in implementing wellbeing-improving techniques.

This Melbourne MicroCert runs over six weeks.

Your total time commitment is approximately 40 hours, which includes:

• 16 hours guided learning
• 20 hours self-directed learning
• 2 hours webinars (live and pre-recorded)
• 4 hours assessment tasks

Assessment:

• Multiple-choice quizzes (35%)
• Part 1: A one-page workplace wellbeing problem description.
• Part 2: a two-page plan describing how the identified problem can be resolved or improved (65%).

Workplace Wellbeing Essentials can be taken as a stand-alone course or complemented with any other Melbourne MicroCert in the Health Leadership series to deepen your knowledge and skills.

The series includes:

• Workplace Wellbeing Essentials
• Mindfulness in Practice
• Behaviour Change in Practice

• Wellbeing in Practice

Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Workplace Wellbeing Essentials Melbourne MicroCert. This digital certificate will warrant the achievement of knowledge, skills and capabilities outlined in the learning outcomes. It may also include artefacts (such as videos and written material) related to both experiential and work-integrated learning, including translatable assessment that is practical to your professional life. You can also share your Melbourne MicroCert digitally and via social media by adding it to your personal platforms, such as LinkedIn. See example certificate.

This Melbourne MicroCert features guided and self-directed learning, to provide both flexibility and support.

You'll hear from workplace wellbeing experts in video interviews, take part in live and pre-recorded webinars, and receive valuable feedback and guidance from your course facilitators along the way.

You'll also contribute to a reflective eJournal and discussion board, and utilise relevant readings, workplace case studies, and practical digital learning activities.

There is no set expiry date.