Dismissed from work.

Or speaking sense.
If you can't do the job. Move on.

Also op, has this effectively been threatened before, was the moving to the new role in part avoiding that, but your illness continued and as before, as such you continued on full pay sick leave in the new role?

I am sure you were very unwell, as that’s what gave rise to the capability termination, but as this is the police and not civvy street, this will have been going on for years and years,

Maybe - not always - see the responses here from people - it needs a pensions expert and a raft of medical support - which is why I asked

If I’m honest op, as this will have went on for years, if I was them I’d be considering if you came back just before the decision was made in an effort to save your job or if it really was just a huge and lucky coincidence that you recovered just before the final decision to terminate was made,when the process would have been going on for a very long time.

edit to add how many times have you returned for a short period?

and the cynic in me right now would wonder if you’re now missing the job, or missing the pay, as you will likely have been paid for years without doing the role, all you had to do was keep coming back for a short period, reset the clock, and you would be on full pay throughout. And of course a new employer will not have the kind of sick pay policy immediately, even the police don’t, it’s after 6 years you get full pay for six months and then half pay for six months, but coming back for a short period every six months would keep you at full pay till they eventually act.

Would have been covered in the panel meeting that made the decision to terminate.

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I think you’ve missed the fact that, depending on the policy, that’s not how IHR/Income Protection schemes work

That said , it doesn’t sound like OP herself would have been ready for that route. She’s young and has much to offer - just that the time had come to draw a line under her chapter with the emergency services

Me too x

What a kind and compassionate post!

OP - you have worked so hard at helping others at some expense to your own health (and livelihood). And now it’s time to focus on yourself and show the same help and compassion you showed to others to yourself

I’m so sorry that must have been very hard for you.

I don’t think we really think about people in your role, we tend to focus on the services attending the scene.

How much time did you have off in the year prior to the final 4 months of no sickness days?

Did you have a lot of sickness in the new front desk role?

Wow - way to kick the OP when she’s down and struggling to come to terms with this all

A beautifully measured response - OP, I hope you read this one with care.

I didn’t say they’d get it I asked if they considered it as an option. And CPTSD acquired in the workplace is certainly worthy of consideration as you’d know.

The reality is though OP that those horrific incidents actually happened to people, you were merely directing the right help to them in their hour of desperate need. Your resulting anxiety from this isn't your employers issue to deal with - they need someone there doing what is in their employment contract, not off sick and generating large amounts of admin. It sounds like you stayed for far too long in a job that you couldn't cope with. And there's no shame in that - I had to come out of a previous job due to the stress, it just wasn't worth the money I was earning from it.

It’s going to be a lot, over many years, the police don’t do this lightly, and there will have been lawyers involved checking every angle.

the op has only focused on she was in the current role for four months, she’s not explained how many years this went on for, how far back the process started, how long she was off and over what periods in the current job.

there won’t be discrimination here, they’d have done everything possible and it will sadly look like the op came back when she realised they would terminate. And they wouldn’t stop the process when they were approaching that decision, as she could easily have worked for six months and did it again, thus restarting the clock. The fact her union couldn’t help would indicate this was a very very lengthy process and everything was done correctly, and the fact she did her role for 4 months before the final decision, had no real bearing. In addition they would have taken into account how well she did her job in thay four months. She would also likely have been being paid, as every time you come back you effectively restart the clock.

the op maybe busy, she said she’d answer all questions, so it remains to be seen if she will come back and update.

Litigation advice isn’t helping this lady - she’s obviously in the need of support and a listening ear.

I’m a HR Director. It’s an extremely high bar and the majority of IHR claims fail.

Given the time limit for bringing an unfair dismissal claim is three months (less a day) and OP was dismissed several months ago, bringing a claim seems unlikely to be an option

How much time had you had off, over how many instances, over what total time period?

Based on what has been said here, it would not meet criteria

It’s always a shock when you stop a job after so long. Although your anxiety was a warning that the job wasn’t right for you at that time you still have lots of skills. You sound like you like helping people. Not the same but similar I was working in a high pressure job dealing with bereavements yes the business tried to help detach you from emotions but it does take toll on your mental health I left as at was making myself ill at a similar age to you. The strangest thing was I had coped in such a job for years. Since leaving I have taken time out to spend time with my family do lots of things round the house, take up hobbies I didn’t have time for as a full time employee. Make sure your anxiety is under control before you jump back into employment.

No - I haven’t

No- companies have you believe this but you need to get your hands on the wording most have a two stage clause

1. never work again - lump sum and full pension
2. can work but not in same position/ can’t be accommodated elsewhere in the company- reduced payments and usually no offer of lump sum

these are final salary or career average earnings type arrangements which as a police civilian employee for 17 years the op should have access to.

The OP would need to be in such a state she could never be expected to work again.