What's my best option?

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Looking into returning to work after 2 years as a sahm, the job I'm looking at is 5 days a week but I would only need childcare on a Friday afternoon for 3/4 hours until DH finishes work.
Just looking for some advice on what my best option would be as I've no idea where to start really.
I know a lot of nurseries have core hours or a minimum amount of sessions a week, are childminders the same? Am I going to be able to put her into somewhere for only one afternoon a week?
Any help would be very much appreciated, Thankyou!

Childminders are relatively flexible in my experience. My daughter started with hers at 18 months and is now 27 months and loves it, she does Monday - Wednesday 8:30/3:30 and Thursday 8:30-5 because that's what suits my work hours, it's always worth asking if any you like the look of have availability for the time you need.

How old is your child?
You might find that nurseries and childminders have spaces on Fridays since people who work part-time often have Fridays off.
Some of them might require 1 full day or 2 half days as a minimum; arguably it might be easier for DC to settle if they have a bit more time there, but they might be fine.
It sounds as if you and DH will be working mostly different hours hence not needing much childcare... Plenty of people manage in that scenario but it wouldn't be my preference, I would want to factor in more time off together if I could.
Depends how many hours each of you will be working as well.

@NameChange30

How old is your child? You might find that nurseries and childminders have spaces on Fridays since people who work part-time often have Fridays off. Some of them might require 1 full day or 2 half days as a minimum; arguably it might be easier for DC to settle if they have a bit more time there, but they might be fine. It sounds as if you and DH will be working mostly different hours hence not needing much childcare... Plenty of people manage in that scenario but it wouldn't be my preference, I would want to factor in more time off together if I could. Depends how many hours each of you will be working as well.

Thanks for your reply, DD is 2, will be starting nursery this September when she turns 3. She currently goes to playgroup 2 mornings a week and was great from day 1 so I'm not too worried about her settling somewhere being only 1 day but I know it may be different in a different setting. The job I'm looking at is only 15 hours a week so 6-9 Monday to Thursday and 3-6 Friday, DH works 7-4.30/5 Monday to Friday, we'd still have our weekends together which I think is really important and is why I'm looking at evenings instead. I think I'll give some childminders a message and see what they say.

Please be clear if you only require a space until September. It helps massively with future planning, I'm already getting enquiries for September and would be disappointed to turn away work.

@GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat

Please be clear if you only require a space until September. It helps massively with future planning, I'm already getting enquiries for September and would be disappointed to turn away work.

Thanks for that I will definitely make that clear

Don't know if I've misunderstood but could one of her nursery days not be the Friday and DH picks her up?

@ChittyBangs

Don't know if I've misunderstood but could one of her nursery days not be the Friday and DH picks her up?

From September that will be an option but she doesn't start local authority nursery until then so I need something that would work between now and September. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

Got you.
My nursery allows 1 day, some don't. Worth an ask around.
If not, childminders are more flexible