As was the case before the pandemic, we expect all employees to take personal responsibility for protecting themselves and others by reducing the potential for infectious illnesses to spread.
Health and social care employees and those who work directly with vulnerable clients
If you have a positive COVID-19 test result, you should follow the updated government guidance for staff or service users with a positive COVID-19 test result.
If you have symptoms of a respiratory infection, including COVID-19 you should follow the updated government guidance for staff or service users with symptoms of a respiratory infection, including COVID-19.
You can find further information in the COVID-19 supplement to the infection prevention and control resource for adult social care.
Other employees
Positive for COVID-19
If you've tested positive for COVID-19, do not attend your workplace.
If you feel well enough, and your role allows, you can work from home. Please discuss this with your line manager.
Try and avoid contact with other people for at least 5 days from the date your took your test.
Symptoms of a respiratory infection, including COVID-19
If you have symptoms of a respiratory infection, including COVID-19, and have not taken a COVID-19 test, try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people.
If you have symptoms of a respiratory infection, such as COVID-19 or flu, please do not attend your workplace. If you're well enough and your role allows, you can work from home.
Try to avoid contact with other people, and do not attend your workplace until you no longer have a high temperature (if you had one) or until you no longer feel unwell. If you cannot work from home but are well enough to work, please talk to your manager to discuss the risk of spreading illness and whether any plan can be put in place to allow you to attend a workplace. Your manager should discuss any plan with the health, safety and wellbeing team before putting this into action.
It's particularly important to avoid close contact with anyone who you know is at higher risk of becoming seriously unwell if they are infected with COVID-19 and other respiratory infections, especially those whose immune system means that they are at higher risk of serious illness, despite vaccination.