Good places to look for flexible/part-time work?

[TheHouseofMirth]

I have a daily scour of gumtree.com and look at www.workingmums.co.uk. Just wondering where other mums looking for similar work look? And has anyone actually paid to subscribe to hiremyparents.com?

This one's for London-based mums www.womenlikeus.org.uk

The NHS has lots of part time jobs eg healthcare assistant, support worker, receptionist.

Working in a school office can be done part time (and term time).

Libraries offer part time work too.

I never found anything useful on any of those working mum type websites.

supermarkets or larger departnent or retail stores, will sometimes have morning afternoon evening shifts esp the large aout of town ones that open till around 9pm

If you like kids there is a national shortage of ABA tutors.

Working families named the following companies the top 10 family friendly companies to work for: (bearing in mind, these may have know what questions to answer and who to get to answer them...)

Accenture (UK) Limited
Addleshaw Goddard LLP
American Express UK
B&Q
Britannia Building Society
BT
Centrica plc
Ford Motor Company
Halcrow
Hertfordshire County Council
Jaguar Land Rover
KPMG
Lloyds TSB Bank plc
Metropolitan Police Service
Ministry of Justice
National Grid plc
National Health Service
represented by Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Nationwide Building Society
SME Sector
Eden McCallum, Happy Ltd & Loop Customer Management Ltd
Wragge & Co LLP

If you happen to be in the north, flexworks UK are worth talking to (though they only have 2 vacancies at the moment?) and if you are in science engineering and technology, get in touch with UKRC

I would say it depends very much on your education, skills and experience and the type of work you want. Don't short change yourself, do many people say, OK where can I look for a job for 38 hours pw (or whatever)- not usually.

public sector work is normally flexible (job share enable you to spread hours/compact them where operations allow) and often offer part time work rather than full time, have good holidays, in a range of roles, some (like land registry) offer onsite creche facilities at discounted prices. Take a look at your local authority website for a link to their careers website. Our own LA does a local bulletin online and distributed to local orgs with job vacancies in them.

Have you considered the option of starting your own business? I sell Usborne books from home and it's the perfect part-time job - there are no targets so I can work as much or as little as suits me, you start earning from day one so its instant income and there is loads of support from other Usborners and head office.

If you're interested then have a look at my website www.beautifullittlebooks.co.uk or drop me an email to [email protected].

Good luck with whatever you go for!

Hertfordshire Constabulary are currently recruiting Special Constables. The role will take up 16 hours of your time each month, which can be split into flexible shifts to fit around your commitments. Additionally, this volunteering role will help you to develop personally, socially and profesionally- learning a range of transferrable skills. To find out more visit the Hertfordshire Police website:

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Isobel
On behalf of Hertfordshire Constabulary Special Constable
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