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Anyone got (or know someone who has) a job that fits around school hours? So say 9am til 3pm? My wife is convinced no-one will employ her on this basis.
What kind of thing shoud she look for?
Teaching assistant at a primary school, my sister does this - gets all the school holiday off as well!
Plenty of part-time admin type jobs are done on a 9am til 3pm basis.
Supermarkets etc - no, as they like you to be very flexible now.
Mrs SR has been thinking about the same thing as Mrs Molgrips.
Will watch thread with interest...
my wife's an administrator at a local school. Bit of a pain if kids are ill or inset days don't match, I either have to shirk from home or take a day off as she has no holiday entitlement beyond the school holidays which are dictated, but otherwise she loves it.
Shops
Supermarkets used to pretty much run on a system of part timers when I was a student and worked in Safeway.
There was a pattern where the more mature folks with no kids would do the early morning shifts and be finished by 10am or noon, the mummies would do 10-2 or 10 - 4 and the students would do 4 - 10.
I'd imagine most big retail stores cover a lot of their staffing requirements this way?
How likely are shops to offer hours like that?
Re Perchy yeah I'd thought that given we have plenty of students to cover the evenings in shops/coffee shops there'd be demand for daytime.
Secret Shopper.
try the public sector. I work at a Uni (not as an academic), and I manage 2 people who work a job-share. They each do 9-3ish, half a week each (overlapping on a Wednesday), but I don't particularly care what hours they actually do. There are plenty of people here who do 0.6 or 0.8FTE jobs based around their childcare commitments.
Teaching assistant
Self employed..small business
Super markets (shifts)
Taxi driver
Cleaner ..home and business
Escort ..night and day
We've employed technical, testing and support staff on that basis.
what skillset does she have?
re: teaching assistants, two things;
1) she'll be expected to work the school day (and possibly slightly longer - say 30 mintues each side) which means she won't be able to drop kids off or pick them up even if they go to school she works in
2) look at local Special Needs schools and maybe offer to do some free work for a day or two to get an idea what it's like. they will have a large number of TA's (often 3 or 4 in a class of 6 or 7 children) and often struggle to recruit staff with the right attitudes. Maybe get on their 'supply' list or do lunchtime cover to get a foot in the door.
Dinner lady?
Dog Walker?
Sandwich shop?
Dinner lady?
How posh are you?
They were known as dinner dogs in my old school..
School admin/learning support assistant (LSA) might fit.. my wife is SENCo at a large secondary school and they've constantly got LSA vacancies.
what skillset does she have?
Admin, proper customer service (she's American), retail, kids - she's been a TA before in France.
Do you already need CRB check before applying for the school type jobs? There are loads of suitable ones on Google it seems.
between myself (engineer) and partner (accountant) we do all the drop off and pickups. Both of us have reduced our hours slightly and I work three short days and two longer ones, she does the opposite.
it probably helped that we had been in the same jobs for a while before reducing down.
How posh are you?
Not very, but enough that I wouldn't suggest anyone's wife applied for a job as a "dinner dog"*
That would be a bit rude.
* or a Dinner Wumman as they were known at my school.
[i]Do you already need CRB check before applying for the school type jobs?[/i]
No, you can't apply on your own behalf anyway so the school/LA need to do it.
They're MDSA's now.
Midday Supervisory Assistant, dontchaknow.
wife is in admin in NHS - 0930 - 1430, 4 days a week, works in well with kids and school.
between myself (engineer) and partner (accountant) we do all the drop off and pickups.
I can't be relied upon to do anything because I am often not here. Aside from the general unreliability 🙂
How likely are shops to offer hours like that?
Fairly likely - my Brother is assistant deputy manager or some other nonsense of one of them - as someone else said they're pretty good for flexibility as frankly they're after 'middle class' people who don't cost much.
Home care Assistant pays a bit more, if She's got the stomach / inclination for it, there are surprisingly few barriers to entry, some just take people shopping or pick things up for them - you don't have to jump straight into wiping bums
Deliveroo!
Do you already need CRB check before applying for the school type jobs? There are loads of suitable ones on Google it seems.
I wouldn't recommend that - most employers will want to complete their own for peace of mind rather than accepting a cert from a provider they don't know.
Chatterbate model?
my wife's an administrator at a local school.
As this - my wife is a website manager at our local school - they are also very flexible around her hours (ie, coming in just after 9am, needing to attend doctor's appointments etc) - she just needs to ensure she works the contracted hours. At the moment she works 9.15am - 3pm Mon to Wed, 8.30am - 6pm Thur and has Fridays off. She'd rather not work at all but this is the best compromise we could find.
School cook/dinner lady.
School hour work and all the holidays.
I must tell my wife that she is a dinner dog.... 😕 still, cant all be high flying stw types can we......
Do you already need CRB check before applying for the school type jobs?
You'll find that most places won't accept a DBS/CRB from a different authority, and will insist on doing their own.
I think I've got 3, and at last count my wife has 5.
Cottage based weaver! 😉
Some part-time posties have official hours of ~0900-1430 four or five days per week, where in theory they are delivery only (rather than getting the duty ready indoors), but it varies according to the depot's needs.
Getting up at ~0530 is a struggle for me during the Sept-Apr months for a 0700 start (getting round ready and then delivering it), but I have my hours condensed into three days, which has its benefits in time away from work.
However, there a broad range of changes that RM want to bring in, including later starts and finishes for all. We've just had a resounding ~74% turnout with 89% of the CWU members voting for a strike, if RM does not drastically change its crazy proposals.
My girlfriend does pretty much exactly those hours for the same reason as an administrator for our local Community Trust. thinking about it, I also have a friend who job shares similar hours doing admin / diary type stuff at a non surgical clinic.
I'm Civil Service and on a part time/term time contract. Means we only need minimal child care two afternoons a week, and I get holidays off.
The down side is that I earn **** all, my pension and possible redundancy payoff are now worth **** all, and now the kids are older I've asked if I can increase my hours and been told my chances of that are **** all as well.