BrisDoc is committed to ensuring that co-owners can take the paid annual leave to which they are entitled while maintaining safe, effective and sustainable services for patients. Annual leave is an important part of rest, recovery and wellbeing and should be planned and taken throughout the leave year.
The policy is based on the following principles:
- co-owners should be enabled and encouraged to take their annual leave entitlement within the relevant leave year;
- annual leave requests will be considered fairly, consistently and without unlawful discrimination;
- approval of leave must take account of safe staffing, required skills and service delivery rather than fixed historic limits on the number of people who may be away;
- co-owners are responsible for requesting leave in good time, but they are not responsible for arranging their own cover as a condition of approval;
- managers are responsible for actively managing leave balances and should not allow operational pressures to result in statutory leave routinely going untaken; and
- where the law provides a more favourable right than this policy, the statutory right will apply.