A few questions if any one has any ideas the best way to go on this.
After been of sick from work you automatically get referred to the Occupational Health team, so i have my appointment on Monday. Feel it is a bit of a waste of time as have been back at work three months.
There aims as far as i can see if to access my capability of doing the job, likely re-occuring sickness etc.
So i am not really sure which tact to take with them. Do i say i had a blip and went of, blames the situation why i went of or what.
Basically i need to put the best picture i can across as they report back to work, then obviously this goes on my record, so i dont want it to come back negative because then obviously they will be looking into my employment status.
Plus the personnel department have just issued 30 letters to people giving them a sick warning, me included which has really got to me.
Working for the prison service if you are assaulted, involved in a disturbing incident, this should not be included on your sick record. Well the have included my sickness 2 years ago when i was head butted, where i had 3 weeks of and also when i found someone on fire, where i was of for 2 weeks.
So bearing in mind this letter has just come out and this appointment i am get really anxious over how to handle it.
This time i went of sick was after a colleague had read one of my emails and printed it out. My fault for leaving my desktop unlocked but she had gone into my sent items and got this email. The email basically said she was getting on my nerves and that the overtime was not been done fairly. We do the overtime from our office when my colleague died a few months back a new guy came in and he has his favourites for overtime including him self.
Any how myself and another 30 officers got charged with improper use of the email system. I got a call telling me i was been charged when on leave, then told i was to go back to the female centre as was getting booted out of office and she was staying even though she was temporary in there and i was permanent. So after my leave reported for duty on FC to be told was to go back to the office. So for the next few weeks had to work with her and kept asking when we would be interviewed and no one could give me any answers. They kept changing the governor who was doing the investigation and none of us knew what was happening.
The girl in question then moved out of the office as her medical reasons no longer required her to work prisoner free. Nothing happened to her where everyone i spoke to said she should be charged for going into someones private mail.
Well this went on and on and no further forward, no one had any answers. No one asked how we were coping whilst waiting for the investigation. So after 2 months of not knowing it got too much and i went of sick.
So to cut a long story short do i use this as my reasons to the Occupational Health. My sick note stated work related stress and my doctor wrote a report to them saying how i had been treated and that she advised me not to return to work until it was resolved, which it still isnt.
My head is all over the place working out what to say, as this is my career and i cant afford to lose my job, as i have no other support financially.
Even the governor who eventually did the investigation interviews laughed when i went in the room and said it was a complete waste of time and couldnt believe he has been asked to investigate such petty material.
Well my appointment is at 2 pm tomorrow so any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Love Sal xx
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