Work shielding pregnancy

[Letsbekindplease]

Hi.
I’m just looking for advice. I work in a hospital type environment. Staff dropping like flies with covid left, right and centre. Patients also have it
I don’t do hands on care due to being pregnant but I’m also in a manager type position where I work in an office within the unit but I still have a lot of interaction with patients and staff. I can’t really not.

I had covid a few weeks ago and it floored me. I’m 28 weeks pregnant and I’m feeling very nervous being in the environment.

Is there any guidelines for me to shield or something ? My manager doesn’t really seem to care. I have a risk assessment in place but even that I don’t have full confidence in. I’m not to work in the unit with covid but we’re so short staffed that I can’t work anywhere else.

Just looking for a little bit of advice or if anyone has been in the same situation?

I’m not work shy. Hardly off sick etc so obviously to shield would be a last resort.

Don't think shielding exists now

The government is not advising anyone to shield anymore.

I work in the NHS and 29 weeks, from last week (28 weeks) I am now not patient facing and doing a mixture of working in my department office based and working from home.

Shielding no longer exists

Also if I wanted to my manager was happy for me to work full time from home until I finish, but we are still socially distanced at work so happy to go in!

AFAIK if you had Covid recently you are reckoned to be immune for 90 days. So that must take you to after your due date.

Once you are no longer pregnant you will be at the same risk as everyone else.

How long are you planning to take off on maternity leave ? You must take two weeks minimum.

Are you vaccinated? If so, you situs be fine, even if you do get it again.

Rule in our trust is to work from home. They’ve just dropped it from 28 weeks to 26 in line with new guidance.

I couldn’t tell you where they’d got that from but it must be around somewhere.