chellieboo
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Thought I'd post this here as obviously you guys will have some experience of this. Hope you can help...
I know this is probably a bit early to be thinking about this as I'm not even pregnant yet but I have been offered a job interview next week so I've been trying to find out if switching hospital (I work for the NHS) would affect the maternity pay/leave entitlement and if it did by how much.
But now i'm totally confused!!! have read stuff on one website which is my current hospitals page which says I have to have 26 weeks continuous service with that hospital at 11 weeks before expected delivery date (so I calculate that as being I must be employed by them before I'm 3 weeks pregnant) to get statutory maternity pay.
however, the website with the nhs contractual maternity leave stuff on it says I just have to have been employed by the NHS (any hospital) for 1 year b4 expected delivery date to receive all benefits.
I can't find anything for the hospital I'm looking where I'm looking at the new job.
So if I go by my current hospitals webpage then if I took the job and then discovered I was pregnant by more than 3 weeks then I would lose out on some benefits, whereas the NHS page implies that I'd still be entitled to everything.
Sorry this is so long but I really need to know as it may affect whether I may take the job if offered and whether we feel should continue TTC or whether we should put it on hold so I can get the maximm i'm entitled to from my employers?
does anyone have any idea about this at all? can an individual hospital override an nhs policy??
Thanks
I know this is probably a bit early to be thinking about this as I'm not even pregnant yet but I have been offered a job interview next week so I've been trying to find out if switching hospital (I work for the NHS) would affect the maternity pay/leave entitlement and if it did by how much.
But now i'm totally confused!!! have read stuff on one website which is my current hospitals page which says I have to have 26 weeks continuous service with that hospital at 11 weeks before expected delivery date (so I calculate that as being I must be employed by them before I'm 3 weeks pregnant) to get statutory maternity pay.
however, the website with the nhs contractual maternity leave stuff on it says I just have to have been employed by the NHS (any hospital) for 1 year b4 expected delivery date to receive all benefits.
I can't find anything for the hospital I'm looking where I'm looking at the new job.
So if I go by my current hospitals webpage then if I took the job and then discovered I was pregnant by more than 3 weeks then I would lose out on some benefits, whereas the NHS page implies that I'd still be entitled to everything.
Sorry this is so long but I really need to know as it may affect whether I may take the job if offered and whether we feel should continue TTC or whether we should put it on hold so I can get the maximm i'm entitled to from my employers?
does anyone have any idea about this at all? can an individual hospital override an nhs policy??
Thanks