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NHS staff advice please!
I’m a band 5 nurse and currently work for NHS Scotland but I will be moving to England before the end of the year- due to trying to secure a mortgage and needing a job that will be able to wait for I’m going into private nursing to start off. Once I’m down in England I want to go back to the NHS but I’m wondering what will happen with maternity leave, will I have to complete a years work before I’m eligible for nhs mat leave or will it continue on from my previous job. We would like to try for baby #2 soon after we settle down in England
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@Charley that’s not strictly true. Previous experience can be counted as reckonable service even if there has been a break.
@Laura yes, but not in this scenario? At least not according to my maternity policy. If for example you left the NHS as a band 6 step 2, and then when you came back you applied for another band 6 post, they could count your previous experience and put you back on step 2 rather than starting at the bottom of band 6 again
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If you leave the NHS and then rejoin you won't have continuous service. It will be counted from when you start back in the NHS again