Safe and supported return to work with the reWork profile

Using the reWork profile demonstrates that employers appreciate their employees and allows employees to keep their jobs After a long-term absence or an upcoming extended period of treatment or recovery, it enables a gradual return to work in line with your resources.

The return to work should be gradual and always in line with individual abilities and resources. The aim is to plan and implement the return to work together in order to maintain employability and secure the employee’s professional position.

The employer (HR manager/line manager) and the employee complete the reWork profile together, which forms the basis for a better assessment of the actual workplace requirements.

 

Creating a reWork profile with a certificate of capacity to work in three steps

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100% incapacity to work due to illness or accident – the situation:

  • An employee has been unable to work for some time.
  • You would like to reinstate this person in the company, even if this is only possible on a part-time basis.
  • Since it is unclear which activities are possible, a medical assessment of the available resources/abilities should be considered.
  • This is how to find out which workload is reasonably possible from a health perspective without jeopardizing the recovery process and where the employee's individual limits of resilience lie.

The employer and employee complete the reWork profile together.

The reWork profile will be presented to the medical profession at the next doctor's visit. The reWork form can be submitted either on paper or as a fillable PDF.

The doctor assesses medical reasonableness:

  • by assessing the partial capacity to work and issuing a SIM certificate of capacity to work.
  • by determining a reasonable partial capacity to work by comparing functional deficits / assessing resources.
  • through the use of assessment categories:
    1. possible
    2. not possible
    3. possible with restrictions

If the employee has a partial capacity to work, a gradual return to the workplace is possible.

Employees complete the reWork profile together with their employer and discuss it with their doctor

The joint meeting with the employee’s manager (e.g. line manager, HR manager, case manager) forms the basis for the reWork profile. The focus is on strengthening and mobilising existing skills to enable a successful return to work. If necessary, individual adjustments to the activity or work area can be reviewed.

The structured profile questionnaire deliberately focuses on what the person concerned can do without including a diagnosis or prognosis. Employers only receive relevant information about what the employee is able to do. The reWork profile with a certificate of capacity to work is discussed with the doctor at the employee’s next visit. The SIM certificate of capacity to work is then issued in close coordination with the doctor. A reWork profile enables the doctor to make a better assessment based on the actual workplace requirements.

The aim is to use a supportive and resource-oriented approach to promote gradual or partial return to work – for the benefit of employees and the company.

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