Background:
Can’t afford not to work - general bills, mortgage, cost of living.
Work in a school office - have a young child so work term time only, so have the holidays off to be with DC. DH works full time and has 20 day’s holiday plus bank hols - earns more than me. No family close enough or willing to help out.
Started new role 2 months ago in a school. Was told I’d have training on the systems I wasn’t familiar with and could call other schools within the Trust, 6 in total, for any questions or support I needed. I was told there wouldn’t be a physical handover so wasn’t expecting one. However I was expecting some sort of handover document eg: logins/passwords, when certain tasks needed to be completed by.
No document had been left for me, so I couldn’t even login. Called one of the other schools to be told that each school uses a different MIS to my school so no one could help me. There’s an IT person who comes to school 1 day a week EVERY FORTNIGHT and doesn’t take calls when they’re not in my school as they’re working at another school. Every day since I’ve been there has been awful, I’m being expected to run the office single handedly without any support. I feel like I was mis-sold the job and I hate every minute that I’m there. I really want to hand my notice in - there aren’t enough hours in the day to get my work done. I’ve been bringing work home and working til midnight to try and catch up.
other member of staff works 2 days a week and the other one works 3 days but left unexpectedly - no replacement yet.
I can’t continue like this - WWYD in my situation? Do I hand my notice in and look for alternative work? In schools references are taken up before you get selected for interview so the HT would know I was looking which could make it awkward.
I regret accepting the role and now feel stuck. Any advice would be appreciated.