Occupational Health Gloucestershire for business, for people, for life

Business Health is a doctor-led service providing advice both employees and managers about fitness for work, workplace adjustments and support – Occupational Health Gloucestershire. Our authoritative advice and detailed clinical assessments explore medical reasons for absence and difficulties in the workplace, clearly separating them from non-medical issues.

We provide clear, prompt and pragmatic advice to managers, defining and justifying adjustments where there is a real medical need. We spend time with employees explaining their illnesses, focusing on capability rather than incapacity, exploring treatment options and demonstrating self-help strategies.

Our emphasis on self-help empowers employees to take control of her physical and emotional difficulties building hope, understanding and practical self-reliance. Verbal advice is supported by our unique set of web-based training and support videos, printouts and text messaging prompts.

Occupational Health Gloucestershire

Sickness Absence

Exploring non-medical barriers to work and discuss these frankly with the employee. Where we can we will suggest strategies for managing disillusion, anger, sadness and victimhood.

Legal Compliance

Helping employers to avoid inadvertently falling foul of employment law – particularly the disability provision of the Equality Act, 2010. We carefully consider what workplace adjustments might be needed and make cost-considered recommendations.

Stress Management

One-to-one clinical assessments address all the potential issues behind the employee’s distress, not only problems in the workplace. As with all other health problems we separate illness from illness behaviour and ‘unwellness’ from unfitness.