{"id":2685,"date":"2018-11-07T15:13:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2018-11-07T15:13:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:13:59","slug":"staff-sickness-absence-process-key-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2018\/11\/07\/staff-sickness-absence-process-key-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Sickness Absence Process &#8211; Key Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As its heading in\u00a0to cold season it&#8217;s worth a quick reminder on the sickness process and the support that&#8217;s available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reporting Sickness Absence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All staff should contact Line Managers directly to report sickness. Managers record the information on the Core Portal.<\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0a member of staff is\u00a0unable to speak directly to\u00a0their manager before 9.30am they should leave a message with another member of staff in\u00a0their team. That member of staff must then email the details directly to the line manager, this includes the reason for sickness and cover arrangements in place.<\/p>\n<p>If the line manager is out of the university for longer than 5 days e.g. on leave or off sick; the member of staff that receives the message from the absent member of staff\u00a0must email full details of the sickness absence\u00a0to; ! HWB Staff Sickness.<\/p>\n<p>Just to note;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fit Notes-<\/strong> need to be sent to line managers who should keep a copy locally for their records. The original sick note should be returned to the staff member to retain for their own information.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Self-certification-<\/strong> is up to the 7th calendar day of illness. On the 8th day and beyond, a fit note is required.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Update for area managers-<\/strong> the bi-monthly sickness reports are being discontinued. All information can now\u00a0be accessed through Core. Individual reports for exceptional cases can be requested through the Staff Sickness inbox.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information on the University policies click <a href=\"https:\/\/portal.shu.ac.uk\/departments\/HRD\/polproc\/sickness\/Pages\/home.aspx\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Staff Wellbeing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is lots of help and support on the staff wellbeing pages;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.shu.ac.uk\/departments\/wellbeing\/Pages\/Wellbeing.aspx\">https:\/\/portal.shu.ac.uk\/departments\/wellbeing\/Pages\/Wellbeing.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As its heading in\u00a0to cold season it&#8217;s worth a quick reminder on the sickness process and the support that&#8217;s available. Reporting Sickness Absence All staff should contact Line Managers directly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5755,"featured_media":2690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Staff Sickness Absence Process- Key Information","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uniupdates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/files\/2018\/10\/Sickness-image.jpg?fit=1028%2C624&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8KEAX-Hj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2742,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/hwbstaffnews\/2018\/11\/07\/sickness-absence-clinics\/","url_meta":{"origin":2685,"position":0},"title":"Sickness Absence Clinics","author":"Anna Gunn","date":"November 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Purpose To support managers with sickness absence in their teams, HR are organising Sickness Clinics. 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