Specialist Work Assessment

Do you have an employee with persistent pain, fatigue, or post-viral syndrome, including Post Covid-19 Syndrome (Long Covid), who is struggling to sustain work?

Are you currently off work due to pain or fatigue and struggling to return?

Would you like some tailored support about how to best support yourself or your employee?

Are you wondering what adjustments are realistic and of most benefit?

Would you like support to be able to retain this person’s valuable skills?

Do you need some guidance around your responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010 and need an expert opinion regarding fitness for work?

Utilise our expertise in pain and fatigue, delivered through our Specialist Work Assessment Service

Our results

74%

of return-to-work goals achieved through our rehabilitation programmes

95%

improvement in client clinical wellbeing scores

How we can help

A short term, solution focused vocational intervention that supports employers and employees with pain/fatigue to improve capacity to sustain work.

Assessment

3 x 60-minute consultations, plus report & recommendations

  • Specialist support provided to employee to identify challenges and solutions

  • Clinical opinion on fitness for work

  • Clear advice on reasonable adjustments

£625

Next steps

Bespoke Rehabilitation Package

  • Following assessment, possible recommendation for a rehabilitation programme (£125 per clinical hour)

  • Tailor-made training (separately costed) to support employers with managing employees with long-term conditions

Expected results

Enhanced employee wellbeing

Employees working in a supportive environment are more likely to:

  • Discuss a health condition

  • Ask for help when needed

  • Return to work following a sickness absence

Improve people management practices & save money

  • Save money

  • Improve productivity/profit

  • Ensure statutory compliance (e.g. disability law)

Commission award-winning experts

  • We are the experts regarding the very specific challenges and needs of those with persistent pain and/or fatigue (and their employers) in relation to sustainable work. Our assessments provide reliable information to manage the employment relationship well in a collaborative way.

Effective absence management

  • Manage absence with compassion and flexibility, supported through an individualised approach

  • Prevent unhealthy presenteeism

  • Avoid unfairly penalising employees with ongoing health conditions

Improve staff retention

  • With recommended adjustments to job roles, work environment or work pattern, support employees to adjust behaviours/lifestyle to manage their symptoms at work

Get in touch with our team to find out more

Call: 020 7263 5026
Email: info@vitality360.co.uk

  • “The discussions during the assessment were compassionate and reassuring. I found the advice offered empowered me to set and maintain better boundaries. The report recommendations gave a formalised and structured way to agree workplace adjustments.”

  • “The assessment has helped me to make reasonable adjustments at work so that I can continue to do my role well. It was helpful to be signposted to further resources such as Access to Work. I really benefited from having someone objective to discuss work with.”

  • “These assessments helped us as an employer work collaboratively to put together a realistic plan with our employees to ensure that they are protecting their health at work. We were provided with the recommendations we needed to be able to support our employees well with persistent pain and fatigue so that they could sustain work.”

Who we are:

We are an experienced multi-disciplinary team with over 200 years’ combined experience in persistent pain and fatigue management. Within this team Amanda, our Career & Employment Consultant brings her expertise from more than 20 years working in the Career industry.

Our expertise:

We help people with persistent, pain, fatigue, and post-viral syndromes, including Post Covid-19 Syndrome (Long Covid), to optimise their recovery and manage their symptoms so they can remain in work or return to work, after a period of sickness absence.

We are also an employer of people with long term health conditions.

The scale of the issue:

2.5 million work age people are inactive because of long term sickness. 26 million people in UK with long term conditions.1

Persistent pain: 45% of population with 25% losing their jobs, 41% of those at pain clinics report that pain has prevented them from working.2

Persistent fatigue: 35%-69% not working due to their illness with 45% reporting temporary or permanently interrupted employment.3

Self reported long covid 1.97 million people.4

81% of UK workers do not feel as they they achieve enough sleep5 - which is costing the UK economy £11.5 bn per annum soley in absenteeism and presentesim.6

Potential financial costs of long-term sickness absence example:

Absence costs can be an unexpected expense for a business in terms of the payment of any statutory and company sick pay. With longer term absence, there could be health redundancies costs.

HR Sources estimate that it costs an employer about £50K to recruit someone new.