Teaching to civil service - losing the holidays

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I am a teacher and middle leader (I work 3 days a week, good salary) and have been offered a job in the civil service. I was so happy when I first found out as I find teaching so all consuming and exhausting and was sick of working in the evenings.

However, I have two young children (one in nursery and one in school) and I feel such guilt about losing the school holidays with them that I am now thinking about turning down the offer. If I take the job, it will mean myself and my partner get to have no time off together as we would have to split our annual leave to cover the holidays, which feels depressing. I've tried putting my eldest in a holiday club before but they were adamant they eidn't want to go back.

Is it a nightmare to cover the holidays? Am i mad to be taking a 16k paydrop to work more days and get less holidays?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Feeling very confused 😕

I'm quite surprised at some of the comments on this thread around taking time off during school holidays and availability of term time working in the CS - this must vary a lot, as I've never struggled to get the time off that I've asked for, and term time only working is fairly common in my department. I'm confident that I would be granted a term time only arrangement if I asked for it.
Agree on the move to shift jobs out of London affecting promotion opportunities though - this is an issue in my department for people based there.

I get 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays + upto 18 Flexi days.

No work in the evenings.
No work at the weekend.
No work when on 'holiday'.
Rarely get ill as not surrounded by children.

Took a pay cut to join, took a higher grade within 6 months.

Arms length body rather than Civil Service proper but conditions are very similar.

I wouldn't do it.

I'm a teacher/ middle leader and work part-time. However my role is solely out of class, can still be stressful, but in a completely different way to class teaching.

16k drop and working more is not something I would consider, unless the job was making me ill.

I did it and don't miss "holidays" which I mostly had to work through anyway, just from home. Which I now do most days. I don't give my child a choice about attending childcare if I'm working. It's non-negotiable, like going to school. I wouldn't be taking alternate holidays to my husband to facilitate that. We do sometimes have her around whilst we're WFH but it depends on your child's temperament if that's doable.