Rehabilitation and ill health Help your employees return to their full potential.
Identifying the first signs of ill health and being able to take the right action at an early stage contributes to increased healthy attendance and productivity. Managers need knowledge about their rehabilitation responsibilities, how to detect early signs, and support for appropriate strategies and measures.
Access to data that can indicate ill health at an early stage, for example through sick leave patterns, is also necessary. This data also enables you to measure your progress in reducing ill health.
Feelgood can help you identify risks and ill health, develop the skills of your managers, streamline the rehabilitation process and offer measures for affected employees.
We can act as an external discussion partner for managers, HR and employees in rehabilitation cases. We provide support in individual cases and help your organisation to establish a good structure for rehabilitation policies and procedures.
We always work strategically and systematically to not only help employees return to work, but also to reduce the risk of future ill health and guide them towards promotional and preventive activities.
As a manager and employer, there is a lot to keep track of and understand in a rehabilitation process. Sometimes it can be difficult to know which rehabilitation measures and adjustments are right for a quick and successful return to work. Feelgood therefore has specialists in the rehabilitation process, case managers, who are responsible for working with you to drive the rehabilitation process forward.
Our case manager collaborates with all the different parties that need to be involved and follows up to ensure that the measures are carried out as planned. We see that an effective rehabilitation process results in lower costs and successful outcomes because the employee receives the right measures from the outset and a clear action plan that is constantly followed up. Nothing falls between the cracks, and managers, employees and HR receive feedback and support throughout the process.
We have local case managers on site near you. If you have multiple locations across the country, we can, if you wish, offer a central case manager who will get to know your organisation on a national level and meet with you via telephone or video conferencing.
It is important to pay attention to ill health among your employees in good time. Feelgood's rehabilitation training courses provide managers with a good understanding of their rehabilitation responsibilities and how to detect early signs.
These signs may include changes in behaviour such as repeated short-term sick leave, late arrival, lower performance, less social participation and conflicts. How managers should proceed can be described in rehabilitation policies and procedures, which our case managers can help you create or update.
For individuals who are feeling unwell, the manager's actions can be crucial. It is important that managers dare to act early, show that they see and ask the employee about their well-being and health. Feelgood can support managers both before and after a care conversation with the employee.
We also identify what support the employee may need. Together, we can avoid sick leave or significantly reduce the number of sick days if we act early and with the right measures.
Our case manager (rehabilitation coordinator) works with you, the employer, to handle complex rehabilitation cases, which often require close and effective cooperation between various parties in order to succeed.
We maintain all contacts and ensure that we draw on the right expertise. For example, our case manager maintains contact with the treating physician, the Social Insurance Agency and others who are needed for successful rehabilitation.
Feelgood also contributes with documentation that advances the rehabilitation process, for example through work capacity assessments, as well as concrete rehabilitation measures and work adjustments.
It can be difficult to know where to start when it comes to systematic work environment efforts to reduce sick leave. Begin by getting an overview of current sick leave and ensure that there are clear rehabilitation policies and procedures in place. Our rehabilitation process specialists, case managers, can assist you in this regard. They can serve as a partner for dialogue or as your project manager to create policies and procedures and train your managers. Feelgood also offers a tool that supports you in keeping track of sick leave from day one – Frisklinjen.
Frisklinjen is a sick leave and health reporting tool that provides a clear overview and important knowledge about sick leave. Managers receive real-time notifications about what needs to be done in relation to your rehabilitation policies, while HR can follow the process. All rehabilitation documentation is also collected here. The structure of your health promotion work is strengthened. You get the managerial support you need to work effectively with health and rehabilitation and reduce your sick leave.
To succeed, measures are often needed at the organisational or group level as well as at the individual level. We can guide you based on your specific starting point and challenges.