Nursery 15 hour funding for 2 year olds question

[Happymama98]

Hi ladies I’m really confused on how to go about enrolling my daughter into nursery for the free 15 hour funding. My daughter will be qualified for it this coming September and I’m currently a SAHM (we couldn’t afford me going back to work as childcare expenses are so high) but I would like to go back to work when daughter is entitled to the 15 hour free funding. I know both parents need to be working for this. I’m just stressing because I need to have my daughter on the waiting list now for her to get a place but I won’t be able to get a job until she goes to nursery. Meaning I would need to have a job in place but obviously most jobs wants you to start immediately so I’m struggling with working out how I will align a job for when she goes. Is anyone else worried about this?

Depends on the work but I'm my line of work, even for support roles such as office and IT 3 month notice periods are common. If you started looking around June time and you said you couldn't start until September it wouldn't necessarily be unreasonable. Once the application process was done you would probably be looking at 2 months notice.
I was offered my job in the August and didn't start until march and I'm not the only person that this happened with but it isn't the norm!
I would be looking at places and getting an idea of waiting lists soon though. At 2 we moved house and we only needed to wait 8 weeks for a place starting in August.

I think if you explain to your potential employer you can’t start until X date it may be ok. If someone is moving jobs they normally have at least one month’s notice period so if you have to wait a bit to start the job I’m sure they’d wait. Some jobs even have a notice of 3 months so I think the right employer would wait.