PT maths lead- meetings on my day off

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I have been leading maths (primary) since Sep, despite only working 3 days. All of the training/meetings happen on my days off. Sometimes I attend, sometimes I don't. I have not attended the last 2, and missed some important info which is being rolled out across the schools in our trust. This means that our school will not know what's going on.
The HT has offered me overtime to attend meetings on my days off but I don't want to! I am PT for a reason! I told him that I don't want to lead maths as it needs to be a FT person and he told me that there is no one else to do it!
Should I be more accommodating and attend?

You've offered to step down stating your restrictions and they still want you. I wouldn't budge 🤷‍♀️

Don't budge!

Can you ask them to send someone else to these meetings? Perhaps a keen newbie who it could be part of their cpd? Or SLT if they are unwilling to move the role to someone else? They can collect the info for you and pass it back for you to then implement.

The meetings should be minuted and you should be provided with the minutes.

Whilst I don't disagree with any of the comments above, you might want to bear in mind that flexibility on your behalf might produce flexibility on your head's behalf. Equally so with inflexibility.

If you stand by your guns - as you are perfectly entitled to - and point at the contract don't be surprised if your head does the same when you need some flexibility.

This might depend on the quality of your head and her/his ability to show flexibility!

Can they Teams you in and pay you for the hour? I do this sometimes.

The other thing you can do is suggest a rotating day for the meetings and training. I suggested this to my school and they adopted it - they also alternate between lunchtime and afterschool for HODS meetings, again after staff feedback (for those of us with DC in afterschool care, staying till 5.30 instead of 4.15 is a much bigger ask than it is for colleagues not in that position).

It is not OK to ask part time staff to work on days they're not contracted for without offering pay or time in lieu (unless you regularly ask full timers to work Saturday or Sunday, I suppose).

I am flexible but not to the point of regularly giving up half a day unpaid!

I’m part time too and this has happened to me this week.

Can you come in for 3 hours on your day off? Mandatory standardisation meetings but no effort to accommodate staff on the days the actually work.

Flexibility works both ways though, I’m attending as I do sometimes need to ask an odd flexible favour which they have accommodated me with.