Absence Management

We deliver a proactive absence management and health surveillance service to promote reduced absence rates, employee wellbeing and increased productivity.  Our occupational health service focuses on the ethos that work is beneficial to health and so where appropriate, encourages an active return to work for absent employees.

How it works

Our case management is conducted, over the telephone and where necessary face to face, by an Occupational Health Advisor (OHA) who is able to assist employees by acting as an advisor, an advocate and mentor to help them understand the health care and benefits system throughout their absence and return to work.

The assessment will provide the rehabilitation plan necessary including the treatment or intervention required to return an employee to their pre-incident level of health or employment, or to a level of health that is the best for their retained condition. All rehabilitation plans provided are individually tailored and non-adversarial.

The OHA will work with all key parties to ensure that there is co-ordination of treatment and reintegration into a suitable work place if appropriate and that all treatment and graduated return to work plans are appropriate, cost effective and in the best interest of the employee and employer.

Benefits

Employers can be assured that our service balances the needs of the business with the health needs of the employee, to produce a set of recommendations including costs and timescales that are applicable to the employment environment.

- Rapid assessment of an absentee’s state of health, welfare and employment
- Advice from a designated occupational health advisor
- Working in partnership with employers to redesign the culture of absence
- Reducing unnecessary absence
- Creating greater savings on sickness absence costs