WIBU to email this to HR

[MattHancocksPrivateNurse]

I’ll try to keep this short.

I was offered a 15 hour a week job, negotiated with manager which 2 set days they would be before accepting (I have 3 small kids and another job so had to fit around this)! All good- HR process started so references contacted, DBS sent etc.

I then receive an email from the manager saying due to the service she cannot guarantee me set days and I may have to work other days and that they hope I will still take the job. Obviously I can’t as I have another 7.5 hour job on a set day and children in various childcare settings on set days (nursery and oversubscribed after school club!). I’d have to put them all in full time nursery and after school club to manage to be flexible to work any day and financially this would be crazy on a 2 day a week salary.

I’m so annoyed. This wasn’t advertised that you’d be expected to work any shift pattern, most people who work part time surely have other responsibilities?! Kids, family care, other jobs etc. how can you work 2 days a week but be completely flexible? I read the company policy which is very pro flexible working but clearly it’s all lip service. The ridiculous thing it’s a specialist role and I was the only applicant so now they have no one rather than someone who could at least do 2 days.

I emailed HR saying I couldn’t take the job and reasons and also querying the flexible working policy and why it could not be applied here. I feel my time interviewing was wasted and now I’m going back to my work with my tail between my legs as my manager has just done a reference for this job I can no longer take.

WIBU?!

That's rubbish OP - YADNBU.
I just came on to ask if you'd considered being a research nurse if one of your local hospitals has an active research portfolio? It's a lot more predictable than ward nursing - I knew a lot of nurses who went into it part time when they found that their shifts did not work with family life.
It's very 9-5 mon-fri with set days if your PT (or at least it was in the Trust I worked at)

I would be furious to have my time wasted in this way.

If you made it clear at the interview and when they offered you the job what you availability was there are really silly to then tell you at the last minute that you would have to do other days.

Now they have to do the recruitment process all over again...

@wingscrow

I would be furious to have my time wasted in this way.

If you made it clear at the interview and when they offered you the job what you availability was there are really silly to then tell you at the last minute that you would have to do other days.

Now they have to do the recruitment process all over again...

Not necessarily. There are often reserve candidates.

Re-read the OP and see that OP was the only candidate. Should not Mumsnet before coffee!

Yanbu that is very unfair of them, this should have been made clear from the start and well before your referees were contacted. No one with any kind of choice wants a 15 hr a week job where the hours may move around the week at the manager’s discretion.

I would definitely complain.

@TheMullerLightOwl I have considered that- I currently work within the education team at a trust which is fine but I miss a patient facing role. I feel a bit stuck here at the moment. Thanks @Thewindwhispers I’m glad it’s not been being unreasonable. I sent the email on Monday and no reply since.