Absence Management Consultants

• Implementing absence policies - understanding what absence policies need to contain, managing short term and long term absence, understanding the legal position, dealing with fit notes and return to work. Dealing with absences due to stress, back pain, family responsibilities, recurring medical conditions, mental illness, etc.
• 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, the legal and disciplinary aspects of absence, including potential disability discrimination issues, maintaining absence record-keeping and understanding facts and figures on absence, the role of occupational health services and proactive measures to support staff health and wellbeing, the management of complex cases, in particular 'myth-busting' about what they can, and cannot, do, the operation (where applicable) of trigger points, the development of return-to-work interview skills, the development of counselling skills.
• Dealing with all matters in a caring, professional and fair manner.

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