Best way to do MAT leave when going off in new financial year of leave

[Chlo12]

Hi, looking for some advice

I’m due 27th April 2025, I work in the NHS and A/L starts from 1st April to 31st March

whats the best way to do MAT leave/annual leave

TIA :)

YABU @Chlo12

What do you mean? Are you asking the best way to use up your holidays after mat leave?

You’ll accrue holiday days throughout your mat leave. You can either tack these onto the end of your mat leave in a block, or ask your company if you can use them to enable a phased return. You pay also be able to be paid in lieu of taking them.

My last pregnancy was similar with end of financial year, although it was Jan 1st new financial year. I was due the 4th Feb.

I started my mat leave a week before my due date (which turned out to be birth date!) Then took 4 weeks holiday before that. Meant I did 1 day the first week back after Christmas (to mainly see my boss and people before I went off). Then my paid Mat leave finished end of Nov. I took the rest of my holiday (and accrued bank holidays) and started back literally a year to the date I finished. I could have taken the next years holiday entitlement at the end but I have older kids in school so needed to keep it to cover school holidays etc.
I think I took one week unpaid at the start of Dec as slightly short of holiday allowance

Weird response.

I'm wondering what the dilemma is? It may mean that you could be off a year but take the last 5 weeks as paid annual leave so you vision that hard unpaid bit?
Otherwise you might need to find out whether your trust will role it over so you can take a years mat leave and then your accrued annual leave after (so physically back in work after may leave plus accrued annual leave from when you were on Mat leave)

Or if you want to take fewer months maternity leave, you can just tack on the accrued annual leave whenever you go back?

It's usually taken as it was accrued. So if you want to go back part time, you still need to take the accrued annual leave in a full time basis...

But I'm not sure what your question really was? What are you wondering about?