Is there life after dismissal?

[TheNaturalBronde]

Having to be very vague
Are their any stories of someone being dismissed in a manner that might have to be mentioned to future employers?
(genuine mistake) (education sector)
Mentally doing quite badly atm feeling like my life is over…

The dismissal has already happened

thankyou , for your posts , I’m just very worried about the reference issue, @Ilovelurchers was it ever a similar situation to mine? Im
still processing the trauma and the unfairness of it, and feeling very emotional that someone else’s poor practice could destroy the trajectory of my life. i am
not saying mistakes weren’t made I am human, in hindsight and all that, but I really hope the subject of the issue doesn’t return that would be astonishing.

How would I go about getting more training? Sorry if that’s a stupid question

There are loads of online courses, I think the NSPCC do one as do others.

if you want to stay in education I would say that’s the best strategy then you can truthfully say ‘I didn’t pass my probabtion, I was naive and didn’t do X which I now realise was a serious mistake. I have since undertaken Y and X courses and through these I have learned abc, I will never make the same mistake again and understand the value of continuous learning and following safeguarding policies to the letter etc etc’

This probably makes you a stronger candidate in the end although it will take some time and emotional distance to get there. In the meantime there’s no shame in taking some time out of education and regrouping in another sector where this is not as relevant for a bit. I know someone who has done this successfully, took about 4 years out of education and then went back.

Thanks I am considering a similar route as well to be honest.

Surely in education (and certainly for my corporate jobs, albeit with large employers) they run a DBS check. So prison would come up and the fact you’d lied would mean you would be dismissed.

If you had only been working on this role for a short while, wouldn’t it be easier to remove it from your CV, and then you don’t need to give any explanations? You could try and explain the gap away.