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Pay and conditions

We have a range of annual leave, pensions, flexible working and maternity leave options available for all of our staff.

Annual leave

All employees of UHB are entitled to 27 days’ leave plus bank holidays (rising to 29 days after five years’ service and 33 days after 10 years).

Pension

You will also have access to the generous NHS Pension Scheme, which you can find more information on the NHS Business Services Authority website.

NHS Pension Scheme

Flexible working

To support colleagues in achieving a better balance between work and other priorities, the Trust provides a range of flexible working patterns and leave arrangements.

At UHB, we are big champions of flexible working. Delivering care to our patients is achieved through a variety of different roles. Therefore, flexible working will look and feel different for different roles. What might work for one role, might not work for another. Effective flexible working practices balance the needs of the colleague with patient experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We expect all managers to ensure that each request will be considered in a fair, compassionate and timely manner.

Maternity leave

All pregnant employees have the right to 52 weeks maternity leave. Many of the maternity provisions are statutory or form part of the national terms and conditions of service. The level of pay during maternity leave is dependent upon the colleague’s NHS service and whether they intend to return to work. 

New parent support is also offered to the child’s:

  • father, husband or partner of the mother or adopter (this includes same-sex partners)
  • adopter where the other adoptive parent has taken adoption leave and the intended parent (where the colleague is having a baby through a surrogacy arrangement)

To qualify for leave the colleague must also have, or expect to have, responsibility for the upbringing of the child and be making the request to help care for the child or to support their partner. The colleague must have been continuously employed by the Trust or another NHS organisation for at least 26 weeks up to any day in the qualifying week or matching week.

For more information on these initiatives, visit our HR website.

HR website

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