Return to Work (Covid and long-term sickness)
Covid has created new challenge for organisations around the pressures of a return to work of their workforce. Extended periods away from work can make the return a challenge in itself. Staff can lose confidence, feel isolated and may be fearful that they are no longer able to respond to the needs of the organisation. Alongside this the reasons that lead to their absence may re-emerge and result in another extended period of leave. This course is designed to support larger organisations who want to support staff to return to work successfully.
An Introduction to the Betterminds' Return to Work (Covid and long-term sickness) Course
With increasing cases of mental illness and work related stress occurring within workplaces in the UK, it is important for organisations to understand the difficulties employees face surrounding extended illnesses and returning to work.
The Betterminds Return To Work course will teach you and your team effective ways of coping with these difficulties and anxieties to make the situation easier for whoever is involved. You will learn prevention techniques to stop you falling into the same habits and how to create clear boundaries to alleviate feelings of guilt when self-explaining. This will give your organisation a much better empathic approach to your colleagues and also when dealing with service users and clients.
How Long is the Return to Work (Covid and long-term sickness) Course?
The Betterminds Return To Work Course usually runs for one single day, however, this may be extended depending on the requirements of your organisation.
What Will My Team Gain From The Betterminds' Return to Work (Covid and long-term sickness) Course
The Betterminds Return To Work Course will equip your team with valuable tools and techniques tailored towards helping people return to work after an extended illness.
You will learn to identify your needs as you return to work and evaluate your own progress.
You will learn how to prevent overthinking and how to use language correctly to communicate your thoughts and needs. You will assess your fears and concerns and learn the best ways of approaching them to make the overall transition easier.
You will learn to use all the support that your employer can offer so you have a successful return to full health and effectiveness at work.
Where Will The Betterminds' Return to Work (Covid and long-term sickness) Course Be Useful
This course will be useful for organisations of any size. It could be particularly useful to organisations with high pressures and strict deadlines, and anywhere where stress can be high.
This training can be especially useful for organisations that require professional caring, have staff that over-give and so burnout more readily.
What Are The Primary Course Objectives
- Understand why returning to work after an extended illness can be a difficult situation for yourself and others
- Understand how you would approach these situations to make them less intimidating if and when they occur
- Knowing when you are ready to return to work and when you still need more recovery time
- Strategies to seek help before make yourself ill by taking on too much
- Learn how to prevent yourself from falling into the same habits
- Understand boundaries and how to manage them
- Learn how to prevent overthinking and anxiety
What Else Will Our Team Learn
- You and your team will learn coping techniques and tools to increase resilience
- You and your team will increase your empathic approach to other colleagues, service users and clients
- You will gain tools and techniques to help the process of returning the work
- You will have fewer lost days due to sickness
- Staff will be less burn-out.