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Returning to work after long term illness

  • 27-01-2016 05:08PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭


    Wondering if anyone could give me some tips on returning to work. I work in the civil service and have tried to go back last year and lasted a month. I have been absent due to panic, anxiety and depression.


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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,973 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    pinkstars, you have to take it 1 day at a time. If you need some time away from your desk etc talk to your supervisor and explain to them that this could happen and you will need to do it.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Has your doctor cleared you to go back to work?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    pinkstars wrote: »
    Wondering if anyone could give me some tips on returning to work. I work in the civil service and have tried to go back last year and lasted a month. I have been absent due to panic, anxiety and depression.

    Normally in cases like this- specifically where depression is one of the diagnosed reasons for being out of work- in a civil service context- you are supposed to be forwarded by Peoplepoint to the CMO. The CMO will assess you, whether you're ready to return to work- and whether or not specific work place accommodations are appropriate in your case. They will do a write up offering an opinion (but not diagnosing a specific course of action) for your local personnel officer. On receipt of this opinion- personnel will normally contact you at your home contact details- and depending on the Department- may invite you in to discuss the situation and come up with a suitable course of action to try to get you back to work.........

    Its all geared at trying to get you back to work.


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