This book gives clear management strategies for promoting staff health, beating stress and reducing staff absence. Stress is not peculiar to staff in education, but is a common cause of absence. Large amounts of limited school budgets are spent each year on sick pay and supply cover. This book gives straightforward practical advice on how to deal strategically with health issues through proactively promoting staff health. It includes suggestions for reducing stress levels in schools. It also outlines how to deal with individual cases of staff absence.
Maureen Cooper was a teacher and senior education officer for schools before becoming a senior personnel manager. A Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development, she is a trained psychometric tester and OFSTED inspector.The author is a director of Education Personnel Management Ltd (EPM), a company committed to providing high quality advice to schools. She has a wealth of experience in advising schools and is a nationally recognised as expert trainer in this field.
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