Compassionate Employers Workplace Support

In the last five years, we know that roughly 57% of employees will have experienced bereavement in the workplace, and at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, around 26% of all workers were juggling work and caring responsibilities.

Yet, only 17% of managers would feel very confident supporting someone who reports to them if they had experienced a bereavement; and 77% of 18-34 year olds would consider leaving their job if they didn’t get proper support when bereaved at work.

Hospice UK has developed a workplace bereavement support training programme to help support their staff carers, support staff after death, and support a grieving colleague. 

Find out how to support a bereaved employee with Compassionate Employers, a workplace bereavement support programme from Hospice UK. It uses training, advice and resources to help line managers, HR and employees feel confident and capable of supporting their staff if they experience grief or bereavement at work. The programme also helps support staff who become carers.

Through a comprehensive annual assessment and recommendation process, we ensure continuous progress towards becoming a gold standard Compassionate Employer. This makes sure that everyone in the workplace gets the bereavement support they need as they go through the challenges of grief, bereavement, caring responsibilities or a life-changing diagnosis.

As experts in end of life care, Hospice UK understands the journey from a diagnosis to bereavement. The Compassionate Employers programme includes support not just for bereaved employees, but for those with caring responsibilities and any employee affected by a life-changing diagnosis such as a life-limiting or terminal illness.

Compassionate Employers provides employees and their colleagues with the support they need at any stage of their journey.