COPE already supports schools nationwide with consistent, high quality occupational health. We're trusted by over 400 customers, covering more than 250,000 employees.

Book a no obligation review of your current occupational health provision and we'll show you how to improve consistency, quality, and reporting across your school.

Reduce Staff Absence Across Your School, Without Adding Pressure to Central Teams

Managing workforce health across multiple schools isn’t just an HR function, it’s a school-wide operational challenge.

As schools grow, maintaining consistency, compliance and oversight becomes increasingly complex. Rising long-term absence and increasing safeguarding expectations all place additional pressure on central teams. COPE supports schools by delivering a structured, consistent approach while remaining flexible.

We work in partnership with central HR teams to ensure:

✔ A consistent standard of clinical advice

✔ Clear, actionable reports that reduce back-and-forth

✔ Fast turnaround times to support timely decision-making

✔ Full visibility of activity, trends and risk across the school

Our model is designed to scale with you, whether you are managing a small group of staff or a large, complex school; ensuring your occupational health provision remains controlled, compliant and easy to manage.

COPE delivers a centralised occupational health service designed specifically for Multi Academy Trusts, ensuring consistency across the Trust while remaining flexible to the needs of individual schools.

Our model goes beyond traditional OH provision. Unlike many providers, we allocate more time to each case, enabling more thorough assessments and the delivery of clear, practical and actionable advice from the outset. This reduces the need for follow-up queries and helps cases progress more efficiently. For Trusts, this means less time managing the process and more confidence in the outcomes. We achieve this through:

✔ Consistent reporting across all schools

✔ Supporting fair, balanced and defensible decision-making

✔ Fast turnaround times

✔ Keeping cases moving and reducing delays in absence management

✔ Real-time tracking of referrals, appointments and reports, giving central teams clear oversight across the Trust

✔ Clear, actionable clinical advice

✔ Enabling managers to act with confidence, without unnecessary follow-up

✔ Reduced administrative burden

✔ Streamlined processes that minimise input from central HR teams

✔ Flexible delivery across multiple locations

✔ A blend of on-site and remote services to support your operational needs

Multi Academy Trusts choose COPE because we deliver a service that is not only consistent and responsive, but proven to work within complex, multi-site education environments.

We're already in the education sector

A significant proportion of our customers operate within education, including Multi Academy Trusts, giving us a strong understanding of the challenges you face

A structured account model

Every customer benefits from both a dedicated Customer Relationship Manager and a Clinical Lead, ensuring both operational support and clinical oversight

Long-term, trusted partnerships

Many of our customers have worked with us for over 10 years, reflecting the consistency and reliability of our service

Designed to integrate, not disrupt

We align with your existing processes and ways of working, acting as an extension of your team rather than a separate provider

Schools face a number of operational challenges when managing workforce health. COPE is designed to address these directly, removing friction, improving consistency and enabling faster, more confident decision-making.

Inconsistent absence management

We provide standardised clinical advice and reporting, ensuring a consistent approach across your entire workforce

Delays in reports and case backlogs

Our model prioritises timely delivery and clear outcomes, helping cases progress without unnecessary delay

Pressure on central HR teams

With clear, actionable reports and minimal follow-up required, we reduce the time spent managing each case

Complex or high-risk employee cases

Our experienced clinicians and structured escalation pathways ensure appropriate handling and clinical oversight

Lack of clear, consistent recommendations

By allocating more time to each case than industry standard*, we deliver practical, work-focused advice that managers can act on with confidence

*Source (Society of Occupational Medicine Report - 2025)

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Testimonials

"The advice COPE gives is specific, helpful and practical, it has enabled us to help employees feel supported and comfortable at work."

Skills & Education Group

"We use COPE for our OH referrals and new starters. We are very happy with the service they provide and the clarity of the advice they provide. We have a good working partnership with COPE to ultimately ensure the continuous well-being of our employees."

Redhill Academy Trust

"We have been very pleased with the service provided, and in particular the turnaround times of reports and new starter screening means that issues can be dealt with very quickly. The quality of advice has been very good as has the level of customer service and I pleased to recommend their overall service."