Would someone please help make sense of these working hours?

[lookattheshorts]

From what I can gather, it's a very strange set up!

It's a job as clerk to the governing body of a school. It says there are 9/10 meetings to attend yearly and that's basically it.

I went into it thinking those meetings were on top of it being a regular part time job

The hours are about 3 hours a go, so about 30 hours a year.

How would this work for tax credits purposes? Does anyone know?

My guess is that they're hoping that someone already employed by the school will do it, but they need to advertise it formally.

It definitely isn't on top of a part time job, it will be a few hours a year.

That is normal for a clerk to the governing body.
It is often taken up by someone who already has another job, or by someone who is a SAHP and not claiming benefits.

I not sure how it affects benefits but it is a very part time role. It is no given that there is someone lined up to do it, as it is often evening work. Can be quite interesting and a good option for someone looking for part time.

It's not a strange set up, that is the number of hours that clerks to a governing body will normally work. We had a clerk on our governing body who also clerked for another school but it definitely isn't a normal part-time job.

Sometimes they'll be a clerk for several governing bodies. Retired or semi-retired people seem to go in for it.

Our clerk does 5 schools, it’s deffo a very part time job.

Not at all a strange set up. Many clerks do several schools.

No idea about the benefits implications.

How can a Clerk work for several schools? From my understanding, they're there for end of term stuff, reviews etc

Surely if you work for several schools, you may well be needed in more place than once at the same time?

Surely there is more to it than the meeting attendance itself - follow up reports, writing up and distributing minutes, organising agenda, collating related documents.

I was told this but they forgot to mention time spent photocopying paperwork to distribute prior to the meetings as well as the typing of minutes. I was expected to go into school weekly to check for any correspondence and on top of everything else as also expected to deal with arranging admission appeals and the paperwork involved in this.

Gas how many hours are you actually paid for?

How can a Clerk work for several schools? From my understanding, they're there for end of term stuff, reviews etc - what end of term stuff etc? Their job is to take the minutes at meetings, distribute agendas, minutes etc. We never saw our Clerk at any end of term activities, they weren't even mandatory for governors but several would turn up to things whenever possible.I am a bit shocked Gas that you were expected to go into school every week - how much correspondence were you receiving in your role?!

unfortunateevents it wasn't a huge amount of correspondence and in the beginning my DC attended the school so it wasn't too bad then. All correspondence for the governing body came through me so it wasn't practical to leave it fro weeks on end.

lookatheshorts I can't remember how many hours as I finished about 6 years ago. Will see if I can find anything.