Member handbook and quality assurance framework

12. Maintaining your membership

This section on membership compliance gives an overview of MHFA England’s expectations for Instructor Members to maintain their active membership status, and the procedures in place in the event of voluntary interruption, quality related suspension, or membership removal. All members To retain annual active membership status, all members are required to: - Deliver a minimum of two MHFA England courses per year - These must include at least one - Complete two development activities, one of which must be from the selection provided by MHFA England. Record the learnings from the activities on the Instructor Member dashboard. For further information on selecting and completing development activities for membership renewal purposes, please see the Guidance: Completing and recording development activities document available on the Instructor Member Development Programme section of your dashboard - Pay annual membership fees - Demonstrate the attributes expected of the role(s) delivery of every full Mental Health First Aid course (online or face-to- face) they are accredited to deliver - Adhere to the terms and conditions of the Instructor Member agreement – this includes ensuring you have appropriate liability insurance to cover learners when delivering MHFA England training.' - Adhere to the guidance and instructions in this handbook

- Update their Instructor Member profile information annually to accurately reflect their experiences and skills Associate Instructors In addition to the requirements listed above, Associate Instructors are required to: - Deliver (where offered) a minimum of 12 MHFA England courses per year that have been arranged through the Client and Community Delivery team - Continually receive high quality feedback from courses delivered to MHFA England clients Where Associate Instructors do not meet these requirements, it will not be possible to offer course delivery opportunities, and may result in removal from the Associate Instructor role and/or Instructor Member role National Trainers In addition to the requirements listed for all members, National Trainers are required to: - Review and assess the applications for the MHFA England Instructor Training Programme assigned to them by the Training Delivery team - Deliver (where offered) a minimum of two MHFA England Instructor Training Programmes per year - Continually receive high quality feedback from Instructor Training Programme deliveries Where National Trainers do not meet these requirements, it will not be possible to offer programme delivery opportunities, and may result in removal from the National Trainer role and/or Instructor Member role.

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