Nurse Leave
Your time off, figured out.

Your numbers, once.

Enter your pay, rota, and leave once. Every calculator uses the same numbers.

What Nurse Leave does for you

Your role

This sets honest notes and presets for your kind of schedule. It never changes the math.

Your pay

Enhancements are added on top of your base rate, the way your payslip does it.

Percentage uplifts are how some pay systems price nights and weekends (the NHS Agenda for Change is one): each kind of shift adds a percentage of your base rate instead of a flat amount.

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your blended hourly rate, enhancements included
Your base plus enhancements, averaged across your shifts. The weekend share above is part of this rate.

Your schedule

If your schedule varies, enter your average week. Results will be a close estimate, not an exact count.

Honest scope: this app is built for staff on a set weekly schedule. If you work bank-only with no set week, or agency shifts with no leave entitlement, it does not model your situation honestly yet.

Agenda for Change: overtime starts past 37.5 hours in a week, at time and a half; part-timers get plain time up to 37.5. The 8 and 80 rule is a US hospital rule.

The day your trust starts the work week. It decides which hours count together for overtime, and how stacking lines up. If Sunday is effectively your Monday, that is Sunday.

Some trusts work to local agreements that differ from Agenda for Change. If yours does, your real bank shift pay may differ from what is shown.

Stacking means working your week's shifts on fewer days, so a short stretch off can cost little or no leave.

Your leave

Some employers grant the whole year's leave at the start of the leave year instead of accruing it hour by hour (NHS annual leave works this way).

Enter your annual leave only. If your trust keeps a separate sick leave record, leave those hours out.

Some employers stop your accrual once your balance hits a maximum. Enter that maximum and forecasts stop growing there. Leave at 0 if there is no cap.

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Some trusts take bank holiday hours out of your leave entitlement. If yours does, count the bank holidays charged per year.

Time off you have already promised yourself before this stretch. It comes off the top so the answer stays honest.

Bank shift extras

Optional. Leave both at 0 if your trust pays no bank shift bonus.

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Start over any time

Replay the intro, walk the guided setup again, or look at the worked example.

What will this time off really cost in leave?

Pick the first and last day off. Weekends and how your shifts are arranged are already in the math.

Your days off

Both dates are required. Enter your first and last day off, then tap Calculate.

The draw, week by week

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0 shifts of leave
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days off
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Leave hrs you will have
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shortfall (hrs)
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Leave hrs when you're back

Shortfall means hours you do not have yet when your time off starts.

Does this look off for your trust's rules? Tell us: [email protected]

Week by week

Weeks run from your chosen week start, the way rotas are posted.

Week ofDays offLeave shiftsLeave hrs

How many bank shifts to cover it?

Set a goal in pounds and a deadline. A bank shift is an extra shift picked up on the bank. We work out what one is worth to you, overtime and enhancements included, before tax.

The goal

One bank shift is worth

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per extra shift, before tax
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regular pay
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overtime premium
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extras

Break even

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break even, in bank shifts
The point where bank shifts have repaid the unpaid time - everything after is extra.
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whole bank shifts to fully cover
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suggested pace

Bank shift availability depends on your ward or unit, and extra shifts can be scarce. If bank shifts are hard to get, the set-aside figure on the Time Off tab may be the realistic path.

Rest guardrail: bank shifts are always optional. Skip any pace that would push you past your trust's hour limits or leave you short on rest.

Shift by shift

Bank shiftsEarnedAhead / behind

Stretch your days off, not your leave.

The day your stretch starts can change its leave cost.

Only if your unit allows it. Your manager's approval governs.

See it: the same 8 days off, two ways

Example: 3 shifts a week. Your schedule is in Try a stretch below.

Starts Wednesday - work the edges: 0 Leave shifts

Starts Sunday - straight through: 3 Leave shifts

Worked Day off, no leave Leave shift

Same days off. Different arrangement. Very different cost.

Try a stretch

0 shifts
0 hours of leave for this stretch

Same start, longer stretches

Days offLast day offLeave shiftsLeave hrs