Sickness Absence Management Training
COPE provide the leading Sickness Absence Management Training in the UK by looking holistically at absence and focusing on achieving the highest
levels of attendance for your organisation – not simply reducing the percentage absence rate by following procedures!
Quite simply, your employees are the most important asset you have in your business. To survive – and thrive – into the 21st century,
all UK businesses must focus on maximising employee contribution and productivity.
In short, we equip you to create a “partnership culture” with your staff where you can proactively support productive attendance
at work.
| Sickness Absence Management Training Course
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| Duration: |
1 – 2 day course depending on customer needs/preferences, delivered by two experienced trainers.
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| Delegates: |
Min 2 – Max 12. |
| Overall aim of the course: |
To equip Occupational Safety and health Professionals with the knowledge and skills to support the
management of attendance at work (including early return and rehabilitation) in collaboration with multi disciplinary
stakeholders and contacts including HR, Occupational Health and internal/external medical professionals, e.g. GP's.
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| Objectives: |
To provide line managers & Human Resources staff with the knowledge and capability to competently and confidently manage all
aspects of absence prevention and management in the workplace.
- Understand the drivers and implications of government led initiatives related to the management of health
at work and rehabilitation
- Develop new (and enhance existing) absence, attendance management and rehabilitation policies through to
implementation and evaluation stage
- Apply holistic and bio-psychosocial models in the case management of sickness absence.
- Utilise tools, templates and techniques to gain meaningful information from both internal or external
occupational health and relevant practitioners, such as GP's, to support robust case management.
- Create rehabilitation and work adaptation plans to support sustained employment through ill health recovery and beyond.
- Recognise, understand and robustly apply legislative requirements related to sickness absence management, return to work
and dismissal where appropriate.
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| Practical: |
The course uses a range of learning techniques including teaching, practical exercises including role-play, quizzes,
absence management 'tools', group discussions, factual handouts, action planning tasks based on case studies..
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| Follow-up: |
Follow up tools will be available to delegates to ensure that training is transferrable to their workplace and to maximise
the value of their learning.
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| Cost: |
£700 to £1,100 + expenses + VAT per course.
(Please contact us to discuss your exact requirements.)
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COPE’s approach to Sickness Absence Management Training
Firstly – we are always bespoke! There is no such thing as one size fits all.
We get to know your business and create a meaningful training and coaching intervention.
Unlike most training providers – we cover;
- All facets of sickness absence management training benefit from our multidisciplinary team of professionals – experienced
Human Resources professionals,
Occupational Health Services advisors and practitioners.
- We are flexible – our sickness absence management training includes everything from small, intimate coaching sessions for more
senior staff through to broader, sessional based courses across the whole organisation from supervisors upwards.
- We make sure that any training you pay for is practical and transferrable back into the work place with structured tools.
When to carry out Sickness Absence Management Training?
- You want to zap your company’s culture with a ‘prevention’ mentality – not wait until you have a problem
- You have a new management structure or team and want to develop your team to manage absence effectively
- You want to create a personal development opportunity for recently promoted staff
- You have some complex, legally risky cases in the business
Why Training?
If the Board need to be convinced – look first at cost! - UK average cost of sickness absence in a recent CIPD
(www.cipd.co.uk) survey in 2009 £692 per employee every year. In the public
sector the sickness rate is one-and-a-half times the rate in the private sector in general (www.guardian.co.uk).
Then consider these top 3 challenges which our training can support you to resolve safely, creatively and legally:
- “While some of my employees are off sick, about a quarter will struggle in when they shouldn't - and will be performing at a sub-optimal
level? How can I tackle this ‘presenteeism’?”
- “I have problems with sickness absence but my employee is pregnant or disabled or
suffering from stress – is it safe to tackle these cases?”
- “What about the new GP ‘Fit Note’ – how can we run a business with all this emphasis on rehabilitation – we need
staff who can do their full job!”
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