• Question: Do you get day's off / holidays when you want?

    Asked by anon-202626 to Rebecca, Raashid, Gareth, Hanna, Marie, Matthew on 12 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Gareth Nye

      Gareth Nye answered on 12 Mar 2019:


      Unless I’m waiting for a lady to give birth I have most weekends off and can take holidays when I want (but you only get a certain number of days you can take on holoday)

    • Photo: Raashid Ali

      Raashid Ali answered on 13 Mar 2019:


      Yes, I usually have 3 weekends off and work one weekend on call, you also get a about a month of holidays which you can book and take off when ever you need them, but sometimes it depends on how many team members are already off. I also have most bank holidays off and only have to work one through the year.

    • Photo: Matthew Smith

      Matthew Smith answered on 13 Mar 2019:


      Yes. I get given a certain number of holidays a year (about 30). At my work, we don’t get given bank holidays but they are added to our total holiday days so we have more flexibility on when we take a break. Did you know that in Scotland, some bank holiday days are different from England?!? I didn’t before i came here

    • Photo: Rebecca Gosling

      Rebecca Gosling answered on 13 Mar 2019:


      Yes pretty much! In my hospital there are 10 people that do the same job as me. There has to be always be one of us around so unless we all want holidays at the same time (which is unlikely!) I can have it when I want. We get about 30 days a year! I get most weekends off, but when I do work weekends I get different days off instead to make up for it!

    • Photo: Marie Cameron

      Marie Cameron answered on 13 Mar 2019:


      It really depends – I have to fit my holidays in around when work is busy, but I do get plenty of holidays. Again, we are very lucky in the UK – in some countries, even places like America, they don’t usually get as many holiday days as we do. 🙂

    • Photo: Hanna Jeffery

      Hanna Jeffery answered on 13 Mar 2019:


      Like the others, I have a set number of days off per year. In my department, we can’t have more than three people off at the same time, so I don’t always get to take them exactly when I want to, but it doesn’t cause many problems.

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