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Term time job? What is there?

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hillyhilly · 29/08/2012 17:39

I'm sure that this has been asked to death but not my ds is starting school, how do I best go about finding a term time, part time job?
Preferably it would be varied and interesting!

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FallenCaryatid · 29/08/2012 17:41

Well, first you have to wait for a rainbow...

TheOneWithTheHair · 29/08/2012 17:43

Then you would have to find the end of it and......

ladyinthelibrary · 29/08/2012 17:46

What skills do you have? My first termtime job was a departmental assistant in a secondary school. There are more and more guidelines/restrictions on what teachers are allowed to do ie displays, certain admin etc, so the school employed half a dozen of us to do that. I moved position to library asst, and now library manager - all 25hrs/wk, termtime only. There are a few non-classroom positions within secondary schools - it may be worth sending a general letter in to any near you?

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ThisisaSignofthetimes · 29/08/2012 17:47

If you mean part time as in say, 9-3 only in term time, possibly teaching assistants but I think you may be expected to work longer hours, the roles are like hens teeth and they generally want experience. If you are looking at pure term time positions, I can only speak for my own sector, financial services and I only know of one company that offered that type of role for adminstrators, wouldn't be varied or interesting and they offshored those roles about 5 years ago. You would be better off trying to think of something you could do for yourself on a self employed basis.

hillyhilly · 29/08/2012 17:48

I thought as much, just occasionally I meet or hear of people who have them and think "that sounds great", but I don't know where to find one, I think maybe you just have to land on your feet. A trawl of google just gives teachers or call centres.

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candyflossisevil · 29/08/2012 17:48

You have probably missed the boat for school jobs now as they tend to advertise in June.
In terms of the jobs, teaching assistant, admin staff, lunch time supervisor, librarian.
Where I live (and I imagine pretty much every where) school jobs are like gold dust! I am starting work at my ds school as a TA next week and consider my self very lucky even though I am over qualified for the role.
Do you have any qualifications/ experience that would go in your favour?

GnocchiNineDoors · 29/08/2012 17:48

Teaching assistant
dinner nanny
lolipop lady
childminder (not just term time but would enable you to also keep your own kids with you)
School secretary
Sex lines.

CatL · 29/08/2012 18:49

Some companies would consider that if you applied under 'flexible working' laws, but you'd usually need to be employed first, then apply to change hours - and they don't have to accept if there is a good business reason not to, which I guess there usually is! I'm a careers adviser, so lots of my colleagues are on term-time only contracts having applied under our flexible working policy, but we go into schools, so it makes sense to have less staff on in the holidays.

From what I've seen in work, jobs like teaching assistants are pretty hard to get at the moment, so I'd do some voluntary work if you fancied that, but there are less popular jobs in schools like canteen staff. my mum was a dinner lady when we were little.

May be worth looking at university jobs as well as schools? Some I've seen advertised are not actually term-time only, but do have more annual leave than most jobs, with the proviso you take it in uni holidays, and I know my friend works in student support in a uni term-time only and part-time (but casual contract, i.e. no pay in holidays either, and uni holidays are long!).

Also, could you sign up with an agency for temp work - then you need only work when you want to, although no guarantees of a regular income.

CatL · 29/08/2012 18:50

forgot to say - you could also consider the sales type jobs where you are effectively self employed and set your own hours, e.g. usborne books, avon etc.

Gumby · 29/08/2012 19:03

Yes uni jobs are often 39 weeks but might not be 9-3

CatL · 30/08/2012 07:31

Ooops, yes didn't think about the 9-3 issue. no one in my compnay gets to do that, as need to be in schools for those hours, plus admin afterwards (and most secondary schools start 8.30 or 8.45, so often need to be in by 8.20 in some to get organised). And I guess most admin temp jobs would want longer hours than that.

ThisisaSignofthetimes · 30/08/2012 07:38

I think you'll have a better chance getting a 9-3 job than a term time one to be honest. Yes you can apply for those type of hours but its very easy for an employer to refuse on the basis that they either need to split your work between other staff when you aren't in for several weeks or hire, at expense temporary staff.

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