Better conversations. More informed return-to-work planning.
Right Work For You is a working prototype, being developed as a potential complementary resource for Occupational Health professionals — helping employees take part in planning, and helping everyone understand capability in the context of real work.
How Right Work For You could support OH
Designed to sit alongside your expertise.
Right Work For You aims to support the conversations that matter in return-to-work and job retention — while clinical and professional decisions stay with you.
Capability in context
Explore what someone can do in relation to the real demands of their role, rather than in the abstract.
Return-to-work discussions
Bring structure to return-to-work conversations so they're more focused, consistent and collaborative.
Workplace barriers and adjustments
Help surface practical barriers at work and prompt discussion of adjustments that could make a difference.
Employee participation
Designed to help employees describe their own experience and priorities, so they can take an active part in planning.
Clearer communication, agreed with the employee
Intended to support clearer communication between the employee, manager, HR and OH, with sharing agreed with the employee. We'll show how this works in the current prototype during a demonstration.
Explore and evaluate
We welcome conversations with OH services interested in exploring and evaluating Right Work For You within their practice.
Where Right Work For You fits
A clear role, alongside qualified professionals.
- A structured, employee-centred resource to support conversations and planning
- Designed to complement existing Occupational Health processes
- Used at the discretion of qualified professionals
- Focused on work, capability in context and practical adjustments
What Right Work For You is not
We're clear about the boundaries.
- It does not make medical assessments
- It does not determine fitness for work
- It does not replace professional or clinical judgement
- It does not produce clinically validated recommendations
Working with us
Explore Right Work For You with your service.
We'd like to learn from OH professionals about where Right Work For You could add value, and how its use could be thoughtfully evaluated. Demonstrations of the working prototype are private and by invitation.
Explore fit with your service
An informal conversation about your service model, the people you support and where a complementary resource could help.
Start a conversationEvaluate in practice
Discuss the possibility of exploring Right Work For You within your service, with appropriate governance and evaluation in place.
Discuss an evaluationEvidence & context
Why this matters
Guidance from Acas, HSE, NICE and GOV.UK on sickness absence, return to work and adjustments.
- Health and Safety ExecutiveManaging sick leave and return to workHSE guidance for employers and managers on supporting workers through sickness absence and back to work.(opens in a new tab)
- NICEWorkplace health: long-term sickness absence and capability to work (NG146)NICE guideline on helping employees return to work after long-term sickness absence.(opens in a new tab)
- AcasReturning to work after absenceAcas guidance on return-to-work meetings and supporting someone back to work after absence.(opens in a new tab)
- GOV.UKReasonable adjustments for workers with disabilities or health conditionsGovernment guidance on what reasonable adjustments are and how to ask for them.(opens in a new tab)
- GOV.UKFit note guidanceGuidance for healthcare professionals, employers and patients on using fit notes.(opens in a new tab)
- Health and Safety ExecutiveWork-related stressHSE guidance and the Management Standards approach to preventing and managing work-related stress.(opens in a new tab)
- GOV.UKOccupational Health: Working BetterGovernment consultation on proposals to increase employer use of occupational health services.(opens in a new tab)
These independent sources describe the wider problem and policy context. They are not evidence that Right Work For You has achieved any particular outcome.
Explore Right Work For You for Occupational Health
Share a little about your service and we'll be in touch to talk through fit, boundaries and evaluation opportunities.