Mental Health and Wellbeing Lessons: Creating a Safe Space to Facilitate Learning | Post-16

Amy’s book, ‘Supporting staff mental health in your school’, helps settings understand how to develop meaningful support structures for colleagues to support positive mental health and wellbeing. Amy also works as a freelancer and helps schools to audit their staff mental health provision and provide training for line managers and staff to help reduce the stigma around asking for support.

Having worked as a senior leader and mental health lead in a secondary school for several years, Amy Sayer completed an NPQSL and became an SLE for Pupil Premium students. Amy has previously been a SMHL coach, a content writer, and has worked with over 200 SMHLs across the country for a wide range of settings. Amy assisted these settings to audit their mental health provision and support them to create and implement a strategic plan based on the specific needs of each setting.