I’m wondering if anyone has had any luck at all securing a first teaching post after some time out in between the degree/pgce and the NQT year.
I got my QTS in September 2018, and had planned to go onto supply to increase my confidence, as some ill health during the first part of my training left me feeling a bit out of my depth. (I only had a couple of weeks off but I did a pgce and the first bit was really intense)
However my partner was made redundant from his job after injury and I had to be the main earner.
I have been working in social care since then, and despite taking all my a/l to do half days in a school each week for a term, and to attend Teachers CPD I just feel like I’m falling further and further away.
I can’t get a TA job or do supply as I can’t afford to pay my bills as it is and I get top ups from UC and if I “deliberately worsen my financial situation” I will get universal credit sanctions.
Jobs don’t come up often near me, and I’m quite rural, so it’s limiting. But I have been applying for jobs since June and the response is always “you’d be better with more experience”. But, how can I get this?!
I work in the day, and do sleep ins at the weekend, I visit schools on my lunch breaks and volunteer with children in care, a youth club and young offenders. But I can’t quit my main job, or I’m homeless and bust.
Is there anything I could do, to help me get a teaching job at this point. Or any mentoring schemes or groups that I could join so I can stay in the loop and keep up to date with things. I feel like if I don’t secure anything this year I will be so far behind that I won’t ever be able to teach. 🙁💔
Thanks so much x