Asthma, Autism, Chronic Pain, Cancer, Cerebral palsy, CFS/ME, CKD, COPD, Lupus, Dementia, Diabetes Type 1 or 2, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Arthritis, Endometriosis, Epilepsy, Fibromyalgia, Migraine, MS, Stroke, Hashimotos, Blind or Low vision,
Our mission
Our goal is simple: help workplaces respond to chronic illness with emotional intelligence, conversational confidence, and practical systems so people feel safe to speak up early and managers know exactly what to do next.
If you need the proof sick happens...
If workplaces mishandle sickness, people reduce hours, disengage, or leave. That costs more than training ever will.
How we help
Sick@Work works
Sick@Work delivers practical workplace training that helps you:
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Reduce sick stigma
So people stop hiding symptoms, delaying support, and burning out quietly. -
Build team capability
Managers learn what to say, what to do, what to document, and when to escalate. -
Build empathy and better conversations
We teach clear language for disclosure, adjustments, boundaries, and performance conversations. -
Create psychological safety
Teams learn how to support each other without gossip, assumptions, or awkward pity.
Eliminate stigma
We help teams stop treating chronic illness like a dirty secret. When stigma drops, people speak up earlier, managers respond faster, and you avoid the late-stage blow-ups that cost retention and performance.
Build conversational confidence
Managers should not have to guess what to say. We teach simple scripts, boundaries, and next steps for disclosure, adjustments, and capacity changes so conversations feel clear, human, and professional.
Improve team capability
We build practical workplace habits that hold up in real life. Your team gets shared language, clear steps, and tools that make support consistent and fair.
Our story
Rechelle got diagnosed with end-stage kidney failure at the peak of her career as Head of Marketing and now awaits a dual organ transplant. She has lived with chronic illness most of her life, but she spent years doing what ambitious people do best: ignoring the warning signs and getting on with it.
Then work got complicated. Not because she stopped caring or performing, but because her body stopped cooperating. Endless appointments, intense side effects, and unpredictable capacity exposed a workplace gap no one talks about. Organisations plan brilliantly for short-term events like the flu, bereavement, or parental leave, but many still fumble ongoing illness because managers lack the language and teams lack the systems.
Rechelle created Unitely and the Sick@Work programme to fix that. She combines lived experience, leadership background, and post grad psychology study to help workplaces build empathy, confident conversations, and practical supports that actually get used.
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Results
How we track results
We track simple indicators that show behaviour change, not just “attendance”.
Examples:
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Manager confidence before and after training
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Increased early support uptake (requests happen earlier, not at crisis point)
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Pulse survey feedback improvements on safety, support, and manager response
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Lift psychological safety and trust across teams
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Reduce avoidable absenteeism and churn
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We align to your existing HR metrics where possible.
We combine education, hands-on practice, and lived experience speakers to show what safer teams look like in the real world.
FAQs
1. Can workshops be customised? Yes. We tailor examples, scenarios, and tools to your roles, team structure, and current policies so the training lands in real life.
2. Are practical tools included? Yes. We include scripts for teams, managers and businesses as well as providing continuity planning and LMS training tools.
3. How long does training take? We run workshops from just 1 hour to 3 hours depending on the content and information delivered.