This session is delivered by the HR Employment Relations team to support you in understanding the sickness and absence policy and the tools and resources available. You will also learn how to carry out absence and sickness related conversations. We will explore topics such as reasonable adjustments and support for staff that have declared a disability.
Learning Objectives:
Understand why proactive sickness absence and other absence management is important Understand the tools and resources available to support both managers and staff Be able to carry out sickness absence and other absence conversations effectively.
Please note; The Managing Sickness and Absence session has a mandatory pre-session resource. Please familiarise yourself with the Sickness Absence webpages, particularly the Sickness Absence Management Policy. This will help you to engage with the interactive activities in the session