Overview

This pathway equips learners to proactively support workplace wellbeing and attendance, addressing both personal and team management aspects. It also aims to assist managers in sensitively and consistently responding to both long-term and short-term absences of employees.

It explores the causes of absence, particularly those within both the employees’ and employer’s control. Emphasising the importance of proactive management, it encourages honest communication between employees and their managers about the factors affecting their attendance.

Additionally, it outlines the essential procedures for ensuring that employees experience a smooth and well-supported return to work and highlights the crucial role that line managers play in fostering an open dialogue about health and wellbeing.

Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the factors that can lead to stress and absence at work in order to promote a workplace culture supportive of health and wellbeing.
• Discover proactive ways to safeguard their own health and prevent prolonged absences from work.
• Proactively manage and support wellbeing and attendance, by creating the conditions for a culture of open and honest conversations about physical and mental wellbeing.
• Follow the correct return-to-work processes and ensure that, at every stage, all parties actively contribute to and support a smooth transition back into the workplace.