Hi, my name is Lms250590! Shall I take ill health retirement?

Lms250590
Lms250590 Community Member Posts: 1 Listener
edited May 8 in Work

Hello, I was hoping for some advice as its abit of a minefield out there! I have recently had a formal meeting with HR and my line manager regarding my sickness absences and it's been decided that I can either be redeployed or ill health retirement. I have worked in the NHS for 25 years, mostly in admin jobs, and have been in my current role for 19 years. I have Ulcerative Colitis and have biologic treatment and medication that keeps me functioning but it's an unpredictable illness so I have been unable to work quite alot. If I decided on redeployment my absences would only be the same so I'm going to take ill health retirement. My manager can't offer me reduced hours which is what I really need but I am still going into work while all this is going on. Should I be considering getting my go to sign me off work with all the stress of this my UC is starting to flare and my mental wellbeing is taking a battering. Will me going to work until I am dismissed go against me when I'm claiming IHR?

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  • luvpink
    luvpink Community Member Posts: 4,530 Championing

    @Lms250590

    Hi and welcome to the community.

    If you can't continue working then you need to be off sick.

    Have you been offered ill health retirement?

    If so then wait until you are dismissed on those grounds.

    Seek advice of your union if you are in one and get them to accompany you to any future meetings with you.

    Being granted ill health retirement will only be possible if an occupational health Doctor agrees and recommends it.

    If that isn't the case then your employer should offer you the reduced hours as a 'reasonable adjustment'.

    It really isn't easy and its a lengthy process in order to be granted ill health retirement and often doctors are reluctant to recommend it because of a lack of certainty of permanence of an illness that prevents an individual from performing any form of employment.

    All other options will need to have been explored,tried and failed for them to agree that you are unable to perform any other role and that ill health retirement can be recommended on that basis.

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