NG Healthcare Staff Handbook

Your Attendance

Consecutive certificates must be submitted on the day after expiry of the previous certificate, therefore you must arrange an appointment to see your doctor before or on the day the medical certificate expires. To ensure the prompt and correct payment of contractual / statutory sick pay, a certificate must be provided for every absence. Failure to do this may result in the loss of sickness payments.

Misleading or false statements will be dealt with through the disciplinary procedure.

What should I do when I am well enough to return to work? You must report via the absence hotline number your confirmed return to work date. If you do not report your return to work date you will be sent home without pay if you arrive for work and your shift has been covered. On your first day back at work you should report to your line manager before you begin work in order for a return to work meeting to be conducted. This will look at the reasons you were off sick, your sickness record in the previous 12 months and if there are any trends in your absence pattern. If there is any concern regarding your absence record you will be invited by HR to attend an absence review meeting. For persistent absence formal disciplinary action will be instigated and this may lead to dismissal.

Please note: for cases of D&V you are unable to return back to work until you have been symptom free for 48 hours.

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