Excessive sickness absence is a waste of resources and disruptive to the quality of services.  If your managers don’t have a proactive approach to supporting staff to maximise their attendance, you will inevitably bear unnecessary wastage.

The Real People Managing Sickness Absence training course is a highly participative one-day event which will give your managers the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to ensure staff attend work regularly, and return to work as quickly as possible after any long-term bout of illness.

Learning objectives

The course is based around a lively combination of taught input, group discussion, practical role plays and legal case studies.

By the end of the training course delegates will:

• Understand the factors at play which make for higher than necessary sickness absence.
• Be able to operate positive working practices to reduce stress at work and boost staff engagement, health and attendance.
• Know how to measure and benchmark sickness absence rate for teams and the organisation.
• Deal fairly and sensitively, within a clear procedural framework, with:
 - Frequent short-term absences
 - Long-term illness
 - Stress, depresssion and mental health issues
 - Other forms of unexpected absence
 - Employees with drug or alcohol problems
 - Employees with disabilities
• Deal confidently and effectively with return to work interviews and formal meetings within procedures.
• Effectively support the rehabilitation of staff who have been off long-term sick.
• Respond positively to a range of common employee misconceptions and objections to proactive and robust management of sickness and absence.