AIBU to want a different Universal Credit work coach?

JSA certainly does have requirements. I had to sign on for a few weeks in June whilst waiting for a new job to start and then said I still had to job search for 35 hours even though I was just waiting for a DBS to come through to start a new job !

You will get a different one every week anyway. They will offer you working in a care home or whatever nobody wants to do.

You might find something here. At start of threads there re lists of various different jobs. Mystery shopping is also good Roamler, Shepper, Field AGent ,Ipsos, Helion, Mystery Dining etc

www.mumsnet.com/talk/money-matters/4953179-earn-ps10-a-day?page=40

No I haven't, maybe consider retraining.
Accountancy was always going to be a target for AI, administration, which I used to do has already gone.
Having a job which involves physical intervention is safest in these changing times.

OP - asking a question about your benefit claim. You ought to be entitled to JSA rather than UC because you've been working and that lasts for six months and doesn't have sanctions and requirements attached to it, apart from to go and sign on. You may have your reasons, but just checking you know about this.

The latest official Govt stats released yesterday showed a further labour market contraction/rise in unemployment - and IMO these figures don't capture the full extent of the picture as if you are unemployed or underemployed and live with a partner and are not claiming benefits, the Govt doesn't know you're out of work.

Have you yourself tried signing up to any accountancy or general job agencies lately? If you had you would know that none of them have any work either

Go to 3 or 4 accountant job agencies, and general ones, sign up and they should start getting you interviews straight away.

Gosh I’m sorry I wasn’t trying to be difficult or thinking you were thick and I am sorry if my post made you think that. I was genuinely only trying to help when I was explaining a TA role and a teacher role were different and that you don’t need qualifications to be a teaching assistant (and from your response had genuinely thought I’d been helpful so sorry if not). I do understand it’s not the role you would want (and acknowledged that) but it also seemed from your initial post you were desperate and worried about finding nothing so was just trying to say it might be something you could do as a last resort.

I obviously misunderstood why in your first post you said you have been offered SEN teaching assistant jobs and then in a later post said ‘but I can’t be a SEN teacher!’ Maybe you were also offered teacher jobs that you hadn’t alluded to in the original post so sorry that I just took it to you using teaching assistant/ teacher interchangeably and that, along with the fact you’d said you weren’t qualified to be a SEN TA, a job which requires no specific qualification or experience, is all that made me think you didn’t fully understand the roles. Obviously not the case, but even if it were I can assure you that I wasn’t trying to make you look thick, I wouldn’t necessarilly expect people not in education to understand what goes on within special education (to be honest many qualified professionals in mainstream don’t have a clue about SEN). I definitely haven’t a clue about accounting!

Anyway, sorry if my posts made a stressful time more stressful, I was only trying to help with my advice but sorry if it felt otherwise. Good luck with your job search.

I did not say that anybody can be a TA, I said there were no particular qualifications or experience needed.

If you read the whole thread in context it is clear OP was suggested TA roles, not teacher roles.

Actually if you RTFT, OP clarified that it was 2 different jobs mentioned to her. One a TA and one a teacher.

There are unqualified teachers who do not have QTS.

Yes, but based on her initial post saying that the job was for a teaching assistant role one could surmise that the OP didn’t really understand the different between a SEND teacher and SEND teaching assistant (understandable for someone not in education), nothing suggested she had actually been pushed towards teacher roles which obviously would need teaching qualifications and experience. This was why I then explained that you don’t need teaching experience/ qualifications to be a teaching assistant as it’s not the same role and that she would be working under the direction of a qualified teacher, not having to devise the education methods or plans herself.

If you read the whole thread in context it is clear OP was suggested TA roles, not teacher roles. Obviously if all you read was that single post without any context then yes, it did say teacher, but to me it was clear this was a misunderstanding around the different types of roles in a school rather than the job coach pushing qualified teacher roles. This is why it’s usually important to read the full thread before commenting!

I agree. It’s appalling!

She wasn’t right. No anybody can not be a TA. You have no idea what the job entails now. TAs are running interventions which they often plan themselves from EHCPs and IEPs on anything from mental health to speech therapy and many many academic interventions based around the national curriculum. They do all first aid which can often be quite a responsibility and can have to manage quite challenging behaviour on a daily basis alongside supporting teachers in lessons.That and being prepared to jump in and hold classes when needed.

Children deserve to have the right people supporting their education in the same way the elderly and disabled need the right people for their care-not anybody the job centre sends their way.

If you read OP’s response to my question about that, both were suggested.

A further post by the OP after the initial one said

"Thanks. Understood re: apply for any job - I am of the same mindset - I am really desperate. But I can't be a SEN teacher?!"

Just wondering how you are doing @QuestioningEverythingNowI'm fellow accountant/tax person who had to take a lower finance job last year