How to Manage Sickness and Absence
Virtual College
Summary
Overview
Within the workplace, it is important that you, as a manager, are able to effectively manage employees who are unable to attend work for reasons of illness or injury. You must be able to deal with sickness absence fairly, by setting standards that enable you to meet the needs of all your employees. The development of effective processes will also help minimise disruptions caused by absences and will reduce the cost of sick pay and lost time within your organisation.
As a result, this course has been developed to provide learners with the knowledge and skills required to manage sickness absence. On completion, learners will understand how an absence should be notified, the recording and measuring process, short and long term absence principles, how to facilitate a return to work and the fundamentals of capability.
By completing this course you should be able to:
- Describe the reasons for absence
- Explain the process of managing absence
- Describe the benefits of a sensitive approach to managing absence
- Create a sickness and absence policy
- Highlight the impact of absence on the workplace
- Identify ways in which organisations can calculate the effect of absence
- Describe the timescales and trigger points in managing absence
- Consider issues which will impact on capability
- Appreciate the value of recording and monitoring absence
- Choose from a range of options for facilitating employees’ return to work.
CPD
Description
Lesson Plan
- Welcome and Learning Outcomes
- Introduction to Absence
- Notification of Absence
- Recording and Measuring Absence
- Short and Long Term Sickness
- Facilitating a Return to Work
- Capability
Accreditation
The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.
Certification
On completion of this course you will be able to download a Virtual College certificate.
Duration
Approximately 1 - 2 hours. The length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly you can study and absorb the material. You can proceed as quickly or slowly as you like.
Target Audience
This course is aimed at managers who have responsibility for managing sickness absence.
Entry Requirements
There are no specific entry requirements for this course.
How it Works
What
This is an online course, all the training will be taken through your browser window. There will be no face-to-face sessions with instructors nor will you receive any training material through the post. If you wish you may print out any page of the training material and may also print the notes you took during the training.
You can also revisit the training material at any time, even after you have completed the course.
How
The material for this course has been broken down into several smaller lessons, each lesson dealing with a specific area of the overall subject.
The lesson consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk you through the lesson material at a pace that suits you. Pages may also include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help you keep in touch and interested in the material.
Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be PAUSED and RESUMED at any stage. When all lessons in the course have been completed our system will realise and automatically record that you have successfully completed the course
When
The course is self-paced so you decide how fast or slow the training goes. You can complete the course in stages revisiting the training at any time.
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