Excuse me but can I be you for a while?

[j4]

I suspect this won't apply to many of you, but you never know, and it may be interesting anyway: here's the job advert for my maternity cover. So if you fancy having a go at being me for a year, you know what to do. :-)

(If anybody's seriously interested, feel free to ask me more about the job, here or by email -- in general though there's lots of scope for doing interesting and fun stuff, and the department is a good place to work!)

Comments

[vinaigrettegirl.livejournal.com]

A year off?! Wow. Great!

[j4.livejournal.com]

That's 26 weeks' full pay, 13 weeks' statutory maternity pay, and 13 weeks' unpaid leave. Though I am actually hoping to be able to give the last month of that unpaid leave to addedentry (we're just eligible for the new system whereby you can share leave between both partners -- ie it comes into effect for babies due on or after April 3rd, which is my actual due date) and take some/all of it as holiday myself (I can't believe I still accrue holiday while on maternity leave, but I am assured that it's so!). I know I'm jolly lucky to have this -- the University's maternity policy (http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/ps/staff/family/maternity/matsummary.shtml) is very generous.