Corporate Bereavement Services
Build a Bereavement Policy Which is Robust and Bespoke to your Organisation
Most or all people will experience the death of a person close to them during their working lives at some point or another.
Everyone will experience grief differently. There is no right or wrong way. It's important for employers to:
- Have a sympathetic and empathic attitude to the bereaved
- Consider the person's mental health, emotional and physical wellbeing, including after they return to work
- Recognise that grief will be different for everyone and can be dependent on their relationship with the deceased or how traumatic the bereavement was
Packages
Update your Corporate Bereavement Policy
Together we will look at your current policy and talk about the necessary amendments and update accordingly.
Build a Corporate Bereavement Policy
Currently there is no legal right to the amount of time a person can have off work (unless someone's child dies) - it just says this should be a reasonable amount. I can help you decide on what you believe is a fair amount of time and a policy that fits with your ethos. Together we can work on;
- When leave for a bereavement can apply
- How much time off do you think would be right?
- How much leave will be paid
Our initial meeting together will be a session where I will get to know you and the needs of your organisation and discuss what would work in your setting. We will go through options and decide on what works for you.
The policy will be written and sent where you can check and amend.
Final Bereavement policy will be sent to you.
Guidance and Advice Session
A one-off session to support and guide you through a traumatic bereavement, event or critical incident at work.
Counselling
I can offer 6 online sessions of bereavement counselling for the bereaved on their return to work.
Bereavement Training with a Private Therapist in London
There should be an awareness of the impact of a bereavement on your employees and tools to put support in place. Being able to respond and know what to do and to be able to communicate in a compassionate way will make a huge difference.
As a private therapist in London, I can provide online or face to face training sessions for your teams, which will be tailored for you. This can include the following:
Training for Managers and HR
- Implementing your bereavement policy
- Grief theory
- Suicide or traumatic death
- Responses to grief
- Employees family
- Providing Support for the bereaved and your employees
- Returning to work
Training for All Staff
- What is grief
- Responses to grief
- Suicide or traumatic death
- What to say/what not to say
- When a colleague dies
- When a bereaved colleague returns to work
- Providing support
- Self- care