Top Tips for Managing Sickness Absence - How to get Ahead of the Curve

Did you know more than 3.2 million working days were lost due to illness in the 2021-2022 academic year? (According to the DfE Workforce Census Data)

With over 67% of teachers taking sick leave and the length of sick leave increasing to an average of 9.3 days, it’s easy to see why it has become one of the most difficult problems for schools and Trusts to manage.

Trying to prevent sickness absence and managing short term absence is crucial, thus will be sharing some top tips and tricks to help get ahead of any intermittent periods of absence, especially before absences start to increase across the Autumn Term - and the academic year!

During the session we will be covering the following:

• Utilising return to work meetings
• The importance of welfare meetings
• Supporting staff to remain in the workplace

Let us introduce you to this week's professional speaker

Jenny qualified as a solicitor in 2012 and joined Judicium as a consultant following her qualification. Her grasp of complex HR queries such as restructuring MATs to operate as efficiently as possible has enabled her rise from a consultant to Team Leader of the HR Advisory Team. Her responsibilities still include dealing with the variety of queries in schools HR as well as supporting the team on a daily basis. Jenny is also an experienced trainer. She runs the training sessions for the NAHT’s HR Essentials Course. In her spare time she likes to participate in park runs as well as get creative with crafts and baking cupcakes.