Job offer and sickness record

[Toastandcheerios]

Please tell me I'm being silly about this. I've been offered a job but I'm worried they'll retract the offer due to my sickness record, which hasn't been great over the past year - one bout of Covid and then a few months off work because of mental health problems caused by workplace bullying. I am not usually one to take much time off sick and in the previous 2 years I probably took a couple of days off.

I'm worried that, either as part of the occupational health assessment or while collecting references, they will discover this and decide to withdraw the job offer. Does anyone have any experience with this? The job is to do with mental health so I am hoping they will be understanding, but I can't stop worrying.

I think if they had any queries they'd raise it with you. Do you have a number of days you were actually off work? I had 6 days of sickness over 2 episodes and I thought it was a lot but I got my unconditional offer straight away..

@pebbledashery I hope if they're concerned they give me a chance to explain. Not sure on the exact number of days but it has been a few months so a lot more than 6!

Do you know how many episodes it's over though that's what they'll be most concerned over. If it was the odd day over 7 or 8 episodes that'll strike concern but a concentrated amount of days over 2 episodes is less concerning.

Ah I see what you mean. It was one block of time off when I had Covid and then two separate blocks for the mental health issues - it would have been one but I returned to work on the promise the bullying would stop, but it didn't and my mental health problems reared their head again.