Local NHS Trust First to Provide Zero Suicide Alliance Training for All Staff

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust has become the first Trust in the local region to implement Zero Suicide Alliance Training for its staff through their online training platform. The Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA) aims to empower, educate and equip individuals or organisations to support suicide awareness and prevention.

NHS England Health and Social Care recently launched their Suicide Prevention Toolkit. Since then, Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) Suicide Prevention Programme began conducting research across the region to source Community Services and Trusts who could collaborate in increasing the awareness of the Zero Suicide Alliance training.

A number of services have joined the campaign and are bringing suicide prevention to the forefront of their learning for staff and volunteers. Humber Teaching Foundation Trust have led the way by embedding an online 30 minute Zero Suicide Alliance Training for all staff and volunteers in the Trust.

The Trust deliver a wide and diverse range of training and courses on their online training platform, which now includes this Zero Suicide Alliance Training. The training provides staff and volunteers with a greater understanding of suicide prevention, in addition to teaching them how to identify, understand and help someone who may be experiencing suicidal thoughts.

Ryan Nicholls, Suicide Prevention Programme Lead, said,

‘Introducing this training to services, such as Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, is a great plus for the programme. It will hopefully bring greater interest from other providers in the region that will in turn increase the awareness of Suicide Prevention in the health and social care workforce’.

For anyone who would like further information or to get involved in embedding the ZSA training to their workforce please contact the Crisis Coproduction Group on email hnf-tr.hnymhpmo@nhs.net.