• Specialists in HR & Absence Management

Absence management - help dealing with sickness issues & long term sick employees.

• We assist you to Implement absence policies – help you understand what absence policies need to contain, help you manage short term and long term absence and understanding the legal position, when dealing with fit notes and return to work. Dealing with absences due to stress, back pain, family responsibilities, recurring medical conditions, mental illness, etc.

• We training Line managers with regard to: the organisation's absence policies and procedures, their role in the absence management programme, the way fit notes operate and how to act upon any advice given by the doctor. We advise on the legal and disciplinary aspects of absence, including potential disability discrimination issues and how to maintain absence record-keeping and understand facts and figures on absence.

• We advise the on the role of occupational health services and about proactive measures to support staff health and wellbeing. We will assist in the management of complex cases, in particular 'myth-busting' about what you can, and cannot, do. We will assist with the development of return-to-work interviews and counselling.