Sick Pay

merrydance

Hi I have a friend who is working as a PA in the NHS. She has had over six months off work due to stresss and has received full pay. She went back to work for a month and has now fallen out with a fellow member of staff. She is now off work again due to stress and believes as she went back for a month she will be entitled to another 6 months off on full pay. Is this correct?
She has worked for the NHS for ten years.

pmlindyloo

merrydance wrote: »

Hi I have a friend who is working as a PA in the NHS. She has had over six months off work due to stresss and has received full pay. She went back to work for a month and has now fallen out with a fellow member of staff. She is now off work again due to stress and believes as she went back for a month she will be entitled to another 6 months off on full pay. Is this correct?
She has worked for the NHS for ten years.

Needs to look at her contract and read what it says about sick pay. There may be a clause inserted which covers this.

tizerbelle

From what I recall of NHS sick pay it works on a rolling twelve month period. Her entitlement would be 6 months full pay, 6 months half pay but in the past 12 months she has had 6 months full pay, so at best I think she will be on half pay.

MacMickster

tizerbelle wrote: »

From what I recall of NHS sick pay it works on a rolling twelve month period. Her entitlement would be 6 months full pay, 6 months half pay but in the past 12 months she has had 6 months full pay, so at best I think she will be on half pay.

If she was only back at work for a month her entitlement to SSP will soon be exhausted as the periods of absence will be linked. She will then be able to put in a claim to ESA, and can receive this in addition to the half pay from her job.

pmlindyloo

MacMickster wrote: »

If she was only back at work for a month her entitlement to SSP will soon be exhausted as the periods of absence will be linked. She will then be able to put in a claim to ESA, and can receive this in addition to the half pay from her job.

Just to clarify - she needs to put in a claim for contribution based ESA when her SSP ends (after 28 weeks, remember the linked periods of sickness as said above)

The income from her half pay (if that is what she is entitled to) would be counted for income based ESA.

TELLIT01

merrydance wrote: »

She is now off work again due to stress and believes as she went back for a month she will be entitled to another 6 months off on full pay. Is this correct?
She has worked for the NHS for ten years.

Very, very unlikely that she would be entitled to another 6 months on full pay, but she needs to check her contract for a definitive answer. If it was that easy to stay on full pay without working we'd all be doing it:)

Takeaway_Addict

merrydance wrote: »

Hi I have a friend who is working as a PA in the NHS. She has had over six months off work due to stresss and has received full pay. She went back to work for a month and has now fallen out with a fellow member of staff. She is now off work again due to stress and believes as she went back for a month she will be entitled to another 6 months off on full pay. Is this correct?
She has worked for the NHS for ten years.

Gone of with stress for falling out with a colleague..imagine if everyone did that...

Scully38

merrydance wrote: »

Hi I have a friend who is working as a PA in the NHS. She has had over six months off work due to stresss and has received full pay. She went back to work for a month and has now fallen out with a fellow member of staff. She is now off work again due to stress and believes as she went back for a month she will be entitled to another 6 months off on full pay. Is this correct?
She has worked for the NHS for ten years.

No, your friend isn't correct. I work for the NHS and sick pay works on a rolling programme (it looks back over a 4 year period). Usually it's 6 months full pay, then 6 months half pay, then it goes onto nil pay. Given that your friend has only just returned to work, she would in all likelihood go straight onto half pay (as she's used up the 6 months at full pay) . The HR department should send her a letter stating what date she'll go onto half pay. She needs to speak to occupational health, the sick absence case manager and her boss too, as they can assist in getting your friend back into work.

Hope that helps.

pol-zeath

She is obviously very "fragile" - I would hope a visit to occy health to see if she is fit to continue in her job if she is finding it so stressful

Scully38

pol-zeath wrote: »

She is obviously very "fragile" - I would hope a visit to occy health to see if she is fit to continue in her job if she is finding it so stressful

I know occy health sometimes gets a bad rep, but really as long as she's honest with them, they should give her every bit of health especially given her history. There's also some guidance on the NHS website that has policy on workers with long standing health conditions and really if anything, if she's feeling pressured, i'd tell her to read that.