Strengthening Workforce Reliability Through Attendance Support, Disability Management, Accommodation and Sustainable Return to Work
Absence isn’t inevitable. It’s a system you can fix.
Join healthcare leaders from across Canada for two practical half-days focused on one of hospitals’ most pressing workforce challenges. Through real-world case studies, expert-led sessions, and structured peer roundtables, you’ll explore practical approaches to attendance support, disability management, accommodation, and return-to-work while learning directly from organizations tackling these challenges every day. Leave with new ideas, valuable peer connections, and practical strategies you can put into action immediately.
Key Takeaways
- Understand what’s really driving attendance and disability trends in Canadian hospitals — and where the old approach is falling short.
- Benchmark your practices against healthcare peers from across Canada through structured roundtables.
- Build confidence handling complex accommodation and disability cases.
- Learn what’s working elsewhere: from the NHS’s wellbeing model to Canadian hospitals that have redesigned their programs from scratch.
- Get practical tools for faster, more sustainable return-to-work, beyond just medical clearance.
- Leave with a concrete action plan and stronger alignment across Employee Health, Disability Management, HR, and Labour Relations.
Bonus: Add on Birchmount Circles Structured peer groups pair you with the same group for facilitated 60-minute virtual 2 x a month over 3 months creating a consistent space to connect, reflect, and learn together. Birchmount Circles are thoughtfully matched by role and function, built for people navigating the same level of decision-making. Each call follows a working agenda: check in on progress, dig into one real challenge, troubleshoot with peers, and leave with a next step.
Who Should Attend
- Directors and Managers, Disability Management
- Employee Health / Occupational Health leaders
- HR leaders
- Labour Relations professionals
- Workplace Health & Safety leaders
- Attendance support professionals
- Return-to-work specialists
- Healthcare workforce leaders
- Clinical operations leaders involved in workforce sustainability
