Welcoming a child is an exciting time however getting everything ready for a new arrival can be a stressful experience too, with so much to plan and organise it is perfectly natural to feel a little overwhelmed. The Childcare Support Service are on hand to help you through the practical considerations such as how adoption rights and pay work and how to approach childcare when you are ready to return to work.

Policy Overview

We appreciate reading through your Trusts policy is a lengthy task therefore we have put together a presentation slide to highlight some key areas of information which you may find useful covering pay and rights, leave, flexible working and salary sacrifice information which is all available in the below PDF.

We would always recommend all expectant parents attend one of our virtual workshops to ensure all information is covered however this is a group session which may not be comfortable for everyone therefore we do offer 1:1 sessions on request with the Childcare Coordinator.  Further information on the virtual workshops can be found below.

Virtual Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Workshops 

These sessions are aimed at staff who have not yet commenced maternity/paternity/adoption leave and cover topics such as pay, rights, returning to work, finding and funding childcare, or anything else you might need support with.  They are also attended by guest speakers including the Parent Education Midwife, Payroll and our workplace nursery provider.

2025 session dates:

• 27th November 2025

All sessions are delivered virtually via MS Teams and run from 10am-11.30am.

Email childcare.coordinator@bdct.nhs.uk to book onto a session and an MS Teams link will be sent to you.