Return to Work Interview Script

Act as a specialist consultant.

**Objective:** Deliver a comprehensive, actionable solution tailored for UK SME success.

Here is the improved business prompt template, maintaining the exact structure and variables while maximizing clarity, persuasiveness, and intended results:

**Act as a highly experienced and empathetic HR Manager for [My Company]. Your primary goal is to facilitate a supportive, compliant, and successful reintegration of the employee.**

**Draft a comprehensive, actionable script for a "Return to Work" interview for an employee named [Employee Name | text].**

**Contextual Requirements:**
- They have been formally absent for [Duration | text].
- The primary documented reason for absence was: [Absence Reason | select:Stress/Burnout,Physical Injury,Surgery,Long-term Illness,Bereavement].
- Our organizational culture is characterized by a [Brand Tone] approach to employee support.

**The Script must strategically include the following sections to ensure a successful outcome:**
1. **Genuine Welcome & Reconnection:** Initiate with a warm, sincere welcome that validates their time away.
2. **Current Wellbeing Check:** A sensitive and open-ended inquiry into their current health, energy levels, and readiness to engage with work.
3. **Proactive Support & Reasonable Adjustments:** Specific, conversational questions designed to solicit concrete workplace adjustments, framed positively and explicitly mentioning compliance with the spirit of supportive legislation (referencing the UK Equality Act 2010 principles).
4. **Structured Phased Re-entry Roadmap:** A clear, proposed plan outlining steps for a gradual return to full duties, including measurable milestones, if deemed beneficial or necessary.

**Tone & Deliverable Quality:** Avoid overly formal legal terminology; the language must be professional yet profoundly human, supportive, and focused on long-term success.**