Been offered an amazing job, but no childcare.

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I’m so upset and I don’t know what to do. Iv been offered a job doing something I currently volunteer at. It’s amazing and something I really want to do.

I can do most shifts with pre school/school etc. But the main shift is 4pm-10pm then sleep over at 7-10am.

I need some sort of childcare from 4-10pm one Friday a month as husband is on lates and finishes at 9.30.

What the hell do I do?!

Dc are 4,12,10 😩

Book a sitter through Sitters.co.uk?

Find a local teenager for babysitting. Or nursery staff looking for extra hours?

I agree find a baby sitter

Try the local college for level 3 trainee teens

Look for a babysitter to do the regular once a month Friday night. Ask for local recommendations from other mums or try sitters.co.uk.

Some of our local childminders do evening shifts

Agree...a babysitter.
Good luck with your new job.

Ask around for recommendations of a responsible local teenager to babysit. Especially if you know the exact Fridays in advance then booking childcare shouldn't be a problem.

I work irregular odd hours from time to time (musician). From when DD was 4 months old I had a fabulous babysitter look after her for evenings when I was working. Before I asked her to do these evening shifts, she did quite a few daytime babysits for me while I was working at home so that by the time it came to leaving her and DD in the evening I was absolutely confident that it would work.

I always make sure there's something nice (and easy to prepare) for their dinner if I have a babysitter here all evening so that they can either eat with DD or after she's gone to bed.

Babysitter definitely sounds like the way forward, OP. Or could you try asking at the school, or whichever nursery etc you used before that? At our school, some of the TAs do babysitting and might be able to leave for 4pm and we've used staff from the kids' old nursery for babysitting.

Might be worth asking on any school facebook pages too in case someone knows of a childminder that would be able to do this on an ad hoc basis.

my daughter is at uni and has a part time job three days a week collecting a child from school and covering at home till his mum gets home on her late nights a 8pm , the odd time she does late night babysitting as well especially over weekends, when she wants time off for any reason she has two mates with weekend jobs that she can offer to do her job to her employer as a sub, lots of her uni mates have similar part time jobs and would be happy with an extra one friday a month job. so if you are near any unis or collages ask them to put you through to advertise the job.