NHS 12 hour shifts

[Supermum222]

Hi,

Anyone who works for the NHS and does 12 hour shifts...

There are a few of us thinking of doing 12 hour shifts in the future to avoid travel/childcare costs. I am only part time so I could do mine over 2 days. How would it work for someone doing 37.5hrs a week? We were thinking 3x12 hrs but really, with the 1hr unpaid lunch break, it would be 11x3. How else could they make up the extra 4.5 hrs?

We are not nurses and will only be open 8am-8pm and 8am-4.30pm weekends.

Bump

How it normally worked on wards is that the spare hours not worked would carry over, so you would end up working 3 weeks of 2 shifts and then 1 week of 3 shifts to make up the extra hours, or similar

A friend is a Nurse who does 12 hour shifts (PICU) and she does four week rotation: 3,3,3,4 repeat.

Ah, I see. Thanks, I never thought of doing it that way!

A lot of my colleagues chose to do 35.49 contracted hours per week to save the faff of making up those hours.

Yes, my colleagues that do this usually have to do an extra 12 hour day every fourth week to make up the 3 hours they lose each week. xx