NHS maternity pay and conception

[Ozmimi]

Hi everyone! Sorry to post another NHS maternity question but everything I read is making me more confused.

My husband and I are hoping to try for a baby soon. I unfortunately had to leave my NHS job last year so have lost my continuous service. I worked on the NHS bank but I don't think this counts towards continuous service.
I am hoping to start a new job that might start mid June early July. My continuous service counter will have been reset from my future start date.
I'm trying to work out how many months I'd need to be working before we can try to conceive in order to get full enhanced maternity pay, or how many months for statutory maternity pay. Can anyone help because I don't understand the whole 15 weeks before due date thing!

We have had to delay for a year and have no idea what will happen when we try, so are keen not delay things any further. Thank you in advance!

Your maternity pay is calculated weeks 17-25 of pregnancy (these are the weeks you'd want to be doing overtime if possible, to bump your pay).

To qualify for NHS maternity pay you'd need to have 26 weeks continuous service before your 25th week of pregnancy (so basically, don't get pregnant until you're in the job about a month to be on the safe side) .

Im sure its 26 weeks continuous service prior to the 15th week of pregnancy. Im a band 7 nurse who deals with maternity policy for my staff and currently on maternity leave myself. Your maternity pay is calculated on what you get paid during weeks 17-25 so if you want to enhance your pay with unsocial hours or overtime do this in the months prior as unsocial hours are overtime are paid the month after you worked them.

Not a NHS worker but I understood from friends that you had to be there for a year before your 25th week of pregnancy? If it is a year, you need to wait 7 months before getting pregnant, so that by the time you’re 25 weeks pregnant, you would have been there for a year.

Oh yes, the 26week rule is regarding statutory maternity pay.

For NHS maternity pay rates you need to have 12 months continuous service up until 11 weeks before you give birth. So quite a bit longer...

Dunno if this helps

this is the policy for my trust depending on your service

I’m opting for equal pay maternity to get paid

So it's 26 weeks of service by the time you're 15 weeks before due date. I actually was told that I was entitled to full maternity pay as I could come back and work remainder of contract (which would have been a whole year) after maternity leave

Thank you everyone for your answers, I think I understand a bit more!
I think the best thing for us will just give me a couple of months to settle in and then see what happens. It's not worth delaying any further and I'll definitely get paid something!