Occupational Health
Our proactive occupational health services give employees impacted by a health condition rapid access to advice, reasonable adjustments and treatment. By helping them to remain in work while they recover, we can help you to reduce sickness absence and boost wellbeing.
What is occupational health?
Occupational health is a valued employee benefit that just one in two UK employees have access to (compared to 90% of workers in France and Germany). It provides employees with access to expert health professionals who can support them with issues affecting their ability to attend or perform at work.
Traditionally seen as a way of dealing with absent employees, occupational health can also be used to help people remain in work. As our latest data analysis shows, our focus on early intervention prevented two thirds of employees from going absent. We achieved this by suggesting reasonable adjustments and signposting employees into expert clinical support, including counselling and physiotherapy, where needed.
We also provide a complete range of preventative occupational health services to help employers prevent ill-health and support employee wellbeing. These include risk assessments, health surveillance, pre-placement screening and occupational health and wellbeing education.
The wide range of proactive wellbeing support on offer is supporting our workforce to be as healthy as they can be and making employees feel valued.
Our Occupational Health Services
Make it easy for managers to refer an employee who is struggling into occupational health.
Our manager-friendly occupational health service makes it easy for managers to refer employees into support. As well as calling them to discuss the referral in person, we also provide expert recommendations for managers. This includes explaining how to make reasonable adjustments to support the employee to stay in work.
Signpost employees to support from the first day of their absence and generate the data needed to reduce absence.
Reduce absence with our day one absence management service, to direct employees calling in sick directly into our occupational health and wellbeing service. Professional nurses can advise on how they can accelerate their recovery. Plus, capture the data needed to understand and address the underlying causes of absence across your organisation.
Identify and mitigate health risks to reduce the likelihood of employees becoming sick.
Working in collaboration with you, we can conduct a needs review to identify your organisation’s health risks and provide advice on how to reduce these. What are the health risks associated with each role? How can you improve the work environment, and what occupational health policies and health assessments are needed?
Meet your statutory requirements to keep employees safe and ensure employees are fit to work.
Ensure your health and safety controls are working with health surveillance to identify any work-related ill health early on. We also provide alcohol and drug testing, fitness for work and safety critical assessments to determine an individual’s ability to work safely.
Determine an employee’s health and safety requirements from the moment they join your organisation.
Our secure pre-placement screening service can identify any adjustments a new employee might need as part of their onboarding process. It can also help you identify any risks that might prevent them from undertaking their role. Plus, generate baseline health information for occupational health surveillance.
Educate managers on how to identify employees who are struggling and employees how to boost wellbeing.
Managers are often the first to notice when someone is struggling, but often lack the confidence needed to help. Our manager training gives them the skills needed to have courageous conversations about wellbeing and signpost employees into support. While our employee workshops and webinars cover all aspects of wellbeing
Occupational health values
Whole person
Seamless access to multi-disciplinary teams, supporting all aspects of wellbeing.
Manager-friendly
We consult with managers and put them at the heart of supporting employees.
Actionable
Fit for purpose reasonable adjustments and wellbeing advice to rehabilitate employees.
Proactive
Proactive wellbeing support to reduce the risk of employees going off sick.
Data-driven
Automated insights and management information to drive your strategy forward.
NTW adopts proactive approach to occupational health
By helping employees to overcome musculoskeletal and mental health issues as quickly as possible, NTW solutions has been able to support staff wellbeing and boost employee engagement and loyalty.
“By enabling us to help employees recover while they’re still in work, PAM OH has helped us to significantly reduce sickness absence and generate substantial cost savings.”
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