Overview
You’re entitled to take up to 4 working weeks of ordinary parental leave each year. The total amount of parental leave you can take is up to 18 working weeks for each child, up to their 18th birthday. Because parental leave applies to each child, not to an individual’s job, any leave taken in a previous job will be carried over.
You’re eligible to take parental leave if you’ve worked with us for 1 year or longer at the time when the request is made (not at the time when you intend to take leave).
Parental leave has to be taken in blocks of 1 working week at a time. We need at least 21 days notice before you intend to start this leave - once you know that you want to take parental leave, please let us know the start / end dates of when you intend to take this leave ASAP.
Please note that we may delay your leave if your absence is likely to cause significant issues to the provision of service to our patients.
More information can be found on the Gov.uk website.