Will being a bank carer lead onto to becoming permanent?

[Benandhollysmum]

After interview been given application to join bank staff, will I be guaranteed hours or even work? Will it eventually allow me to apply for a permanent postition within the company?
I need a job that will help pay my rent but being on a zero hours contract leaves me fearful, I’m already skint as it is will I even be more skint?

Help please someone.

[HoleyCoMoley]

Being on a zero hour contract means they don't guarantee work and you dont have to work if you don't want to. There are loads of part time and full time carer jobs around, are you looking for a permanent job, let me know 2nere in the country you are and I will take a look for you. Do you have any carer experience.

[Benandhollysmum]

I’ve applied for all local care jobs going, I could get a job in minutes if I drove but I don’t, I’m on a cache level 2 working towards a level 3 in safeguarding and dignity of adults.

[Benandhollysmum]

Exactly I don’t want to be tied to a company that won’t be offering me work, I need work to live. zero hour contracts are not good for people with older kids to support

[HoleyCoMoley]

Is there a bus or train service near you so you could get to work, have you got a hospital nearby where you could do h.c.a. work. Are you miles away from anywhere like me, I got buses to work, it's ok as long as there are no early starts at the weekends, sometimes it is easier to do nights.

[Benandhollysmum]

IM on a main bus route straight to city centre, tried to become HCA but wasn’t qualified enough.

Actually very frustrating for me. I’ve seen it all in terms of dementia and bi polar, ive seen the dark days on all of it but not good enough need a bit of paper to tell me what I already know

[BlueMoon33]

I was bank staff in a care home for a while, there was a lot of hours going as a lot of sickness and vacancy’s but it meant last minute calls to go in to work, a mix of nights and days, some gaps without work, no holiday pay and after a year of doing all the hours I could for them, they refused to put me through my NVQ as I was bank staff so I quit and found a nice private care job!

[HoleyCoMoley]

Are there no band 2 h.c.a. jobs going in a local hospital, you don't need experience. Have you looked on indeed jobs website.

[HoleyCoMoley]

If you're interested in mental health the guardian newspaper has jobs advertised, I think it's on Wednesdays but you could look online, they have mental health, addictions, carehomes, elderly.

[BlueGenes]

I did but it just depends on them and why they want bank members of staff. Ask them? Also depends if you can cover short notice absences as that would probably make up a lot of your work.