Managing Absence, Health and Wellbeing
There can be significant complexity in managing all the different types of absence. This module defines the different types of employee absence and teaches up to date best practise for dealing with them confidently to achieve best outcomes.
With 1 in 6 absences from the workplace due to mental ill health, this module also educates the delegates on mental health and provides practical training for managing it. You can expect to learn how both short and long-term absences can be managed proactively to promote employee health and wellbeing, support business performance and reduce financial impacts.
Learning Outcomes
• Understand the different types of absence and the approaches that can be used to manage them, including the metrics, data and record keeping required
• How to identify the impact of absence and assessing the cost to the business
• How to identify unacceptable patterns of absence
• How to conduct an effective return to work interview
• Understand how to keep in touch
• How to request and achieve focused medical reports
• How to manage absence and disability, including protected characteristics
• Understand how to use a case management approach to prevent the drift into long term absence
• Understand how to manage cases of work related stress or a catastrophic injury, illness or significant bereavement
• How to promote employee health and wellbeing
• How to manage mental ill health including warning signs and reasonable adjustments
• How to develop strategies for preventing and reducing absence