Occupational Health supports the highest level of capability amongst your staff by giving you the right information to manage their attendance, performance and safety.

Money spent on appropriate Occupational Health services tends to pay dividends through saving the cost of supply teachers, new staff recruitment and compromised agreements with employees whose capabilities have diminished.

The service is provided by Health Management Limited and comprises Occupational Health appointments and assessments and an Employee Assistance Programme. The first aspect includes:

• management referrals for sickness absence or performance issues
• ill health retirement referrals
• Occupational Health physician face-to-face appointments
• Occupational Health nurse advisor face-to-face appointments and telephone consultation appointments
• advice on referring employees from a team of Chief Medical Officers
• minibus driver medical appointments
• work station assessments

The Employee Assistance Programme and counselling service runs 24/7, 365 days per year and includes:

• telephone counselling sessions for all employee