NHS conditional job offer withdrawn

makeyourdaddyproud

nimbo wrote: »

... Makes me mad how the system breeds incidences where people feel they have to drag themselves in when they are actually sick. And then give it to others.

Sadly that's inevitable, but one must also see it from the employer's perspective; if they were to overlook sickness, over a short period of time sickness incidences would rise as more and more employees see little obstacle to job preservation by going sick on a whim.

To be honest, I think a brutal sickness regime is the only way to stem the flow of frivolous manpower losses.

Maybe a different approach is needed where the punishment is in the paypacket for not only the day lost but one extra too, as an alternative to being a victim of the Bradford Score.

FBaby

Shows that, sometimes, it would be better if businesses didn't just use scores like this (I agree though that they are a useful tool in showing patterns of absence) but used their common sense as well. It certainly taught me that it's not always better to do the "right" thing.

To be fair, with that level of sickness and adjustment required, the person who failed you is not your boss but your GP. It is standard practice for a GP to suggest a blood test, inclu B12 deficiency for anyone suddenly coming down with extreme tiredness.

Sanne

FBaby wrote: »

To be fair, with that level of sickness and adjustment required, the person who failed you is not your boss but your GP. It is standard practice for a GP to suggest a blood test, inclu B12 deficiency for anyone suddenly coming down with extreme tiredness.

Yes, he failed me - he did you a blood test after I begged for one and then just ignored the low levels, as I know now. Suggested stress and all that Jazz.
Lucky for me I moved a couple of months later and had to change surgeries, the new GP suggested a blood test and had a look at the results of the last one when I said one had only been done. Everything was clear from there on, on re-testing the levels had gone down quite a bit further which explained all the symptoms I was having (there were lots beyond exhaustion). When I was diagnosed and read up on it I don't know how the previous GP didn't realise, it seriously had messed my life up for a while, even before it got that bad that it affected work.

I wasn't suggesting that my boss was failing me by the way, just laying out that, sometimes, common sense is needed when looking at the scores as what I had done was clearly in the interest of the business. Had it come to redundancies (there were a number but luckily not my position) I would have been screwed and better off had I just taken three weeks off on full pay.

t0rt0ise

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

Also as others have pointed out, there is no such thing as a "permanent" contract. Anybody who said this in my trust was instantly corrected!

Typical employer's attitude. Got to keep the plebs on their toes, can't have them enjoying security in their life.

Elmax

I'm devastated- after two months of providing all sorts of evidence I have received a letter stating I haven't satisfied the trust with my employment history and references.

I have worked for a trust for 20 years and in the past 6 months have been off with work related stress. I completed all the information and on the occupational health form was honest and out 84 days which I somehow had got this figure for being off nearly six months (I only with four days a week).

I went to see OH this week and she said she would sign me off as fit and the. I get a letter two days letter withdrawing my offer.

I have had two instances of sick in two years, this long one then another for three days.

I don't know what to do. My current manager (who was involved in my complaint at work and caused the work related stress) said that she had had a reference and what stage was at in line with something to do with nhs employers. I said I had a verbal offer and condition written offer. She said they had asked for my sickness and I said I'd declared it but had an amount she had pulled off esr which was over 100 days!

Why will they have withdrawn my offer? I thought only the sick I declared to Oh was seen by them and they didn't share it - or the have seen what I gave and have withdrawn it on the fact I've given a different figure than the referee.

Please help! I'm devastated and I'm wondering if there is anything I can do or is that it and they won't reconsider?:(