so clearly they are insured so you should be able to get paid while you recover enough to be signed fit to work again yes?

i know that a lot of peole will say just sit at home and wait it uot, but if you are not a required part of the team then it's going to be that much easier for them to get rid of you, probabtion can have a notice period as short as one day or a week so it's not a long time