What part time and school hours jobs are there?

[User37652]

Hello! I am looking for a new career path and trying to think of what jobs offer the option of part time and school hours?
My ideal would be to work two days a week, 9.15am-3pm. I don’t mind term time or working holidays.
I have a bachelors degree and was previously working in a very specialised area of healthcare but I don’t want to be in anything to do with that anymore, but I am willing to retrain (as in short term courses but I don’t think I can do a full bachelors degree).
The $ isn’t too important, it’s more that I want to get out of the house for a number of hours but it would be nice if it could cover nursery fees for the day!!
Any bright ideas anyone? Willing to consider anything :)

I think you'd have more options if you'd consider working longer hours on those days considering it's only two days. Quite a lot of larger companies (banks, local authorities) will consider job shares but you'd be expected to do 9-5 on your days generally speaking.

Teaching assistant is the obvious one but again you'd usually be expected to be in before school started.

Retail and libraries maybe - but some may ask for some Saturday working.

I work in the voluntary sector and charities often offer flexible working to make up for low pay.

Working in school, non classroom based support staff

What about looking at training to become a parish clerk? Smaller parishes often need a clerk for between 3 and 15 hours a week, and in my experience they are fairly flexible with working hours. Some larger parish councils have offices, but others would require working from home. There would be a requirement to attend evening meet, possibly once a month or every two months. There is a qualification you can do (Cilca). If you google your county, and 'association of local councils' you'll find more info and probably a list of vacancies.

Thank you yes definitely something for me to consider, I suppose two days of after school care is not too bad for the older one, and the baby will be in nursery which is open until 6 anyway so I could do 9-5

Thank you. Could you name any jobs in particular that are good part time? Would I need to retrain?

Thanks, so I just saw an advert for a ‘cover support’ worker in a school that said school hours and flexible, is that the kind of thing you mean?

Have a look at civil service roles. You can often negotiate good part time hours.

Yesss thank you this is exactly the kind of info I was looking for!! Sounds right up my street :)

Admin/book-keeping for small businesses? They very often need someone to do their day-to-day invoicing and accounts, but can't justify a full-timer. There are plenty of courses available to get you started on that, and you could take it as far as you want to qualification-wise.

Development manager in retirement housing if independent often has similar hours and will often be flexible if you ask.

@User37652 , it's a really flexible job in general. I have some friends who are clerks and some work part time for one larger council, whilst others are clerks for 3 or 4 smaller ones. There may be scope to be an assistant clerk for a larger council and work up. It's quite a varied and interesting job. Not terrifically well paid, but the flexibility can be invaluable.

Housekeeper/Cleaner. I used to be a senior manager in HR. Got disillusioned with the corporate world and left. Im now a Housekeeper. If you get the right clients, it's a great job. If you get wealthy clients, you can end up managing other staff, doing pa duties etc. Yes, it's cleaning ultimately but there's nowt wrong with that! Keeps you active and the time goes by fast. Clients like intelligent cleaners who can communicate, prioritise and who have initiative. It's flexible on hours and there is no end of work out there.

I do admin work at a university - 2 days 9.30 to 2.30 and then one day normal office hours.
Are you near a university or college? They often have part time hours, as do places like the local council, NHS etc.

There's a website called 9-2-3 jobs which specialises in these hours, I haven't looked it myself, only recently heard about it.

What about joining NHS Professionals in a non clinical role? You might find something.

I would register with the online agencies and look for part time hybrid.

I agree you might need to offer up more time than a couple of short days.

Or ask on local Facebook pages!

There are websites that advertise jobs at charities like Third Sector Jobs or Charity Job and then look for administrator roles. In small organisations they're often part time.

I work in a secondary school and there is a real need for secondary school TAs. We are always recruiting and happily recruit TAs doing the hours you're looking for. I was an LSA myself at one point and it can be a really fun job. Stressful too but it depends on what sort of person you are - some people love it, but others hate it

You can start working towards a TA qualification to begin with. It is whatever the new NVQs are called. Even saying you're working towards it at interview will help

Yes exactly that sort of work. You can look at tes jobs or green sheets for non teaching jobs

Hi,
That would be difficult with those hours. I work in a college in the office and work 8-4 and 8-3. We have LSAs who can only work around school hours, so work 9am - 2:30/2:45. That could be something you could look in to at your local college if they offer hourly paid posts.

I did accounts, 9-3pm when ds's were in primary. Worked beautifully. Now I work 4 days, perfect.

I'm an exams invigilator in universities and schools. Term time work and fairly flexible (I tell them when I'm available to work) but obviously it's very seasonal.