Sub teaching in NI

[seeyouinanotherlifewhenwearebothcats]

Hi all. I am a primary trained teacher. I haven’t worked in a school since 2017 when I did days here and there subbing. The longest post I had was a year. I’ve been a SAHM but am considering returning to subbing. When I was last at it, it was very competitive and hard to get work. I was wondering if anyone could shed any light on what it is like now? I keep hearing it’s hard to get subs but not sure if this is only in secondary schools? Realistically the only days I could sub would be a Tuesday, Thursday and maybe a Friday (childcare issues). Can you still set availability on NISTR or would I be unlikely to get work if I could only do limited days? Thanks in advance for any info.

Hopeful bump?

Getting work was so bad we moved to England. That was last year.

Oh dear 🙁 I feared as much. I found it that way before I started my family but all I keep hearing now is how there are no teachers so I wondered if the subbing situation had improved, evidently not. Thanks for your reply!

I’m a trained secondary teacher and I’m in the ROI , I honestly don’t understand the talk of a shortage of teachers… I’m assuming it’s just in Dublin. There’s 5 jobs on education posts for my entire country and it’s huge 🤷‍♀️