Pre-Employment Health Assessments
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Pre-Employment Health Assessments
Pre-Employment Health Assessments (PEHA) are the best way to determine if an individual’s health and fitness levels are an appropriate match for a given role and its tasks. The assessment can also identify any risks that may arise when a worker completes their duties.
Review candidates, identify risk and rapidly recruit prospective employees.
Our pre-employment medicals offer a quality experience. Our procedures, online platforms and team of professionals allows us to deliver innovative outcomes to improve service delivery nationwide. Recovery Partners offers both psychological and physical pre-employment health assessments.
Did you know that the wrong hire can cost a business up to 2.5 times the salary of the employee?
Types of Pre-Employment Health Assessments
Physical
Help employers determine whether applicants can safely perform the inherent requirements of a role, identify potential risks, and implement strategies to reduce those risks.
Psychological
Helps employers objectively assess whether a candidate is psychologically suited to the inherent demands of a role, supporting informed hiring decisions, reducing psychosocial risks and improving workforce retention.
Benefits of Pre-Employments
Pre-Employment health checks are some of the most important yet overlooked part of the hiring process.
Benefits include:
• Suitable, capable employees fit for work.
• Reduction in workplace injuries.
• Reduction in claims and insurance costs.
• Match the capacity of the employee with the role.
• Candidates may be made aware of previously unknown medical conditions.
Timeframes, Reports and Results
- Referrals: Actioned within 24 hours, with appointment confirmation sent.
- Assessment: Scheduled and completed within 72 hours, subject to candidate availability.
- Reporting: Report provided within 24hrs of assessment, typically same day.
- Results: Candidates will need to contact their employer to obtain results.
- Employer Report: Includes a summary of findings and recommendations.
- Outcome: Candidates are classed as either Passed, Passed with Caution (Conditional Pass), At Risk, or Recommendations for psychological assessment and/or recommend GP follow up.
Accurate and Industry Specific Assessments
At Recovery Partners, our team is dedicated to providing accurate pre-employment medical assessments for a range of industries.
- Court security.
- Security officer.
- Labourers/construction.
- Aged Care.
- Support workers.
- Prison officers.
- Baggage handling.
- Rail workers.
- Childcare.
Just to name a few!
Aged Care Pre-Employment Health Assessments
We understand that recruiting candidates suited to the physical and psychological demands of aged care can be challenging. Recovery Partners’ two stage Pre-Employment Health Assessment helps employers identify potential risks early and make informed hiring decisions.
Our Pre-Employment Health Assessment is designed for residential aged care, home and community care, nursing, dementia care, independent living support and other aged care roles.
Stage 1 – Telehealth Screening and Assessment.
Stage 2 – In-Person Functional Assessment.
Only candidates who successfully complete Stage 1 will progress to Stage 2, helping employers avoid unnecessary assessment costs while supporting, safer and more confident recruitment decisions.
Our clients have reported greater than 50% reductions in workplace injuries following the commencement of pre-employments.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Our experienced and friendly consultants will conduct the pre-employment assessment. All consultants have a background and education in Allied Health.
Cannabis, opiates (heroin), methamphetamines, amphetamines, benzodiazepines (antidepressants and sleeping tablets), cocaine and alcohol.
The employer will need to pay for the pre-employment assessment.
NEWS
From our blog
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Pre-Employment Medicals – FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions Pre-Employment medical assessments review a candidate’s medical history and their capability to meet the requirements of the role, including physical and psychological
What High-Risk Industries Need to Know About Pre-Employment Assessments
High risk-industries including mining, construction, healthcare and aged care, and transport, logistics and aviation are susceptible to a variety of challenges in the workplace. Safety
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