If you have a job that fits well around your kids, what is it?

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I am looking for a career change, something that will hopefully give me a better sense of job satisfaction.

I have 2 young DC, aged 3 & 1 and they are my priority. I am looking for 30 hours per week max, where I will get weekends off and I can be present during my time with my kids.

If you have a job like this, what is it?

Another civil servant here... I work full time and still manage to fit this around my kids. Very flexible hours and in our department we can work from home all of the time if we want (which I do). My kids are at school now but in the summer holidays I set my hours so that I work early morning and late evening and get all the time in between for family days out - I managed the whole 6 weeks without using holiday clubs. Great career progression opportunities too.

Software developer. I work from home, freelance, and nobody minds when I do the actual work, which means I'm there for pick ups, drop offs, homework, activities and so on.

I probably work 40-50 hours a week and sometimes have to catch up after the dcs are in bed, but doesn't feel too bad. It pays very well. It's working MUCH better than when I was commuting to an office, which was a binfire.

Coordinator at a university. 35 hours per week Mon-Fri, but I could drop to 30 if I wanted. Work from home 3 days a week and in office 2 days. Very flexible. 30 annual leave days. Good money.

Civil service - I work 9-3, 2 days in the office 3 at home.
some of my colleagues wfh permanently but I am not sure they advertise that anymore.
The best job for flexibility I have had but the pay is a lot less than I could get elsewhere.

WFH for a charity and they are happy for me to do the school run (I'm home from drop off before 9am).

Sorry mine are older, youngest is 10 years old.

I've also just started working for the civil service. I chose to do 24 hrs over 3 days. I do 1 day in the office a week

When I had small children I worked part time nights as a staff nurse , worked for me but I have always been ok on 4/5 hours sleep per day , it wouldn’t work if you needed to sleep all day .

From people I know locally who work in the civil service, it does appear their work days are very short as they can do drop off and pick up on school days - with a one hour lunch break! If that's how it is, the downside has to be poor salary due to all this flexibility.

I work as a clerk at a town council 4 days a week. Very flexible. Just applied on a whim on my first mat leave. It's like a jack of all trades general manager type role.

It's not the highest wage for the role, but has lots of other benefits (local gov pension, holiday, flexibility etc)

Civil service varies through the sector.
I am CS and have been for 25 years, I wfh but get half hour lunch and I am expected to be flexible and work 37+ hours depending on business need.
Salary can be poor for lower grades in some departments but others are really good eg; forestry commission wages are good 😊
part time and job share can be accommodated, my dept is particularly wage poor but I am too old and jaded to move on.

Civil servant - work for the Home Office and have for 22yrs. I’ve been full time, part time and now full time again! We do part time, job share and term time only too. Very flexible and family friendly. Currently do 40% office, remainder at home and pre pandemic we did 2 days at home. Good career prospects, and good pension. Lots of variety, so many departments in the civil service so if you do get bored or unchallenged in your job plenty of opportunity to move or progress up the career ladder.

Sign up to civil service jobs. We are currently advertising every 6 months at the Home office for a large campaign which covers a few different teams, at AO and EO level. There are other smaller campaigns too, last one was for 900 EO’s last month. Passport office have an advert out currently too. If you enter your criteria they will email you when jobs are advertised. This is the HMPO advert:

www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1826066&csource=csalerts

Local councils and charities are very good for flexible working. I have only ever worked in jobs that fit round the kids and have done every drop off and pick up at school.

Working In a school. Learning support assistant in a special school. School time only all the holidays off and 2 minutes away from home

Civil service is amazing. I was a contractor though and my bubble has burst so back to the private sector and heartbroken thinking how much I’ll miss out on.

Depends on their department - we do 40% and I do collect my daughter most days from school. So I do 3 days instead of 2 longer days. So I actually do 50%. I log back on when I’m home from school run and work another 2hrs or so. We offer parents in our team to use their lunch break to collect children and log back on as long as they are over school age and able to entertain themselves whilst the parent finishes work. It works, our staff are amazing and exceed their targets

Well my days aren't short because I've chosen to do 24 hours over 3 days but I can log out to do school runs . Money, well it depends what you do and what you think is good money

I have an autistic ds and hadn't worked for 11 years before this so the money doesn't seem bad to me! Also I couldn't do it if it wasn't for the flexibility

Oh and I can have a one hour lunch break if I'd like but I would have to make some of the time up later

Classroom assistant. School 8.30-1.15 school holidays off. Bliss.

I work 9-2 in an office less than 10 mins from home. Tbh distance from home for me is the key and I'll never work in the city centre again.

Local authority. Flexible working, they don’t really care what hours I do as long as I work my contracted time. I work 24 hours 2 full days and 2 days school hours. Such a change from my last job where I was micro managed.

www.charityjob.co.uk/

You can filter your search to remote, hybrid or workplace or all to see what comes up. I've applied for a few remote grant admin roles via this site but ended up with a f/t one instead.

Also civil service. Not bad pay, 32 hours over 4 days, in office 1 day a week. I do all school runs, never miss any school shows/trips. I usually sign on in a morning, nip off for school run then come back and work through to afternoon pick up. The flexibility is what's keeping me as I don't particularly like my role, I'm just too lazy to apply elsewhere in CS at the moment!