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Balancing work and family can be challenging, but your health and wellbeing come first. Taking full advantage of your benefits, including available leave, supports both your personal life and professional success.
While building a family is a happy and exciting chapter of your life, we recognise that it can also take a physical and emotional toll.
As well as enhanced maternity leave, we offer paid time off for ante-natal care and pregnancy related sickness. We want to make sure you, and your baby, are as healthy and happy as possible. So time off for ante-natal care may include any relaxation or parenting classes that your doctor, midwife or health visitor has advised you to attend.
Not everyone grows their family in the same way, and welcoming a foster child into your family can require your time and attention. We want to ensure that you have the space to give time and attention to your foster child, so if you are legally fostering a child, you will be entitled to up to six days’ paid leave per year.
We understand the devastating and traumatic impact losing a child has on your wellbeing.
If you experience pregnancy loss after the end of the 24th week of pregnancy, you will be eligible for maternity leave and pay. If you experience a pregnancy loss before the end of the 24th week of pregnancy, we recognise that you may still need time away from work. If you, or your partner, experience a pregnancy loss, you may take up to one week’s paid leave in addition to any sickness absence you may need to take.
If you lose a child, you have access to parental bereavement leave. This is up to two weeks’ paid leave (inclusive of any statutory parental bereavement pay) to be taken as consecutive weeks or in two blocks of one week in the first 56 weeks after the child’s death. However, we understand everyone copes in different ways so if you are unable to return to work following a period of parental bereavement leave, further leave may be available as compassionate leave, annual leave, sickness absence or unpaid leave.
Parental leave supports your wellbeing by giving you time to spend with your child, making memories without balancing your worklife. We offer up to 18 weeks’ unpaid parental leave for each child up to the age of 18, which can be taken at any time up until the child’s 18th birthday. A maximum of 4 weeks’ parental leave can be taken in a single year in respect of any individual child.
Caring for a loved one can be emotionally and physically demanding. Carer’s leave supports your wellbeing by giving you time to manage your caring responsibilities to maintain balance and reduce stress.You are entitled to up to 5 days paid carer’s leave per year if you have a dependent who requires long-term care.
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