Bitter/sweet job offer :(

sacha28

Thanks cheeswright you make ALOT of sense. If it came up FT in 6 months I would snap their hand off. They have offered 0.7 and I can't see how that translates into shifts!!

Even more weird is that, after they offered and I provisionally said yes (I was thinking with my heart and was half way through my long journey home) they left it as 'we'll be in touch with the specifics and.......nothing. I haven't had a phone call, no email, nothing in any way, shape or form of communication. I have a few questions that I think need asking but now don't know if it would be considered too keen to phone?

I'm starting to feel a bit disheartened, this was supposed to be the start of our dream but there seem to be many curve balls thrown in and I don't know what to make of it anymore

sacha28

OK update.... just spoke to recruitment to voice my concerns at hearing nothing since the verbal job offer. She almost laughed at me down the phone, apparently they need to get paperwork sorted then send it off to recruitment for the conditional offer letter to be written This can take up to 10 days :eek: so I need to stop panicking and relax a little to see what they come back with (it has been a very long time since I have been offered a job, over 6 years so I can't remember how these things work lol!)

Panic over, sit tight

hazyjo

getmore4less wrote: »

failure to renew a fixed term contract is a redundancy

So if I took a 2 year fixed contract and it wasn't renewed, I'd get the same redundancy as I would if I was in a permanent job?!

Wow, you learn something new every day! Age 43 and only been in 3 jobs, so something I'm not familiar with at all (plus our current 'personnel department' (haha!) is non-existent and we're meant to go to our horrendous line manager for all things personal/personnel-related - yeah right so I wouldn't have a clue about anything job related these days! btw, this is the woman who decided a mum couldn't work through her lunch and leave an hour early to go to the latest parents' evening appointment she could get, because apparently 'if you leave early, they'll all expect to leave early' (four of us - all in our 40s. She's basically a bully)). Sorry, I digress!

Jx

sacha28

So the decision has been made.....we're going for it :j

My OH was very concerned about his lack of prospects so approached his management team and asked if the would consider him working 25 hour over 2 consecutive days, staying the night in between at his parent's house. They were very happy to accommodate this and it means he only loses 5hrs a week. It's just over an hour between where we're going and where he'll be and our way of justifying this is that people who work in (say) London do this every day.

The great thing about this is that we won't be spending out £500pm on nursery fees as our LO will only be going one day a week instead of 3 (10 hrs instead of 30) and I will only need to work one extra shift to make my time up to full time, I can be relatively flexible on this as my OH will be off for 5/7 days.

We're now quite excited about all of this, we have been talking ourselves in and out of it for the past 3 weeks, thank god it takes soooo long for the recruitment process in the NHS!!!!

We both appreciate all of the advice/opinions given on this thread, we have pulled it up many times during our discussions!! :rotfl::rotfl:

balletshoes

Exciting stuff! It sounds like you have yourselves organised well .

jackieblack

sacha28 wrote: »

So the decision has been made.....we're going for it :j

My OH was very concerned about his lack of prospects so approached his management team and asked if the would consider him working 25 hour over 2 consecutive days, staying the night in between at his parent's house. They were very happy to accommodate this and it means he only loses 5hrs a week. It's just over an hour between where we're going and where he'll be and our way of justifying this is that people who work in (say) London do this every day.

The great thing about this is that we won't be spending out £500pm on nursery fees as our LO will only be going one day a week instead of 3 (10 hrs instead of 30) and I will only need to work one extra shift to make my time up to full time, I can be relatively flexible on this as my OH will be off for 5/7 days.

We're now quite excited about all of this, we have been talking ourselves in and out of it for the past 3 weeks, thank god it takes soooo long for the recruitment process in the NHS!!!!

We both appreciate all of the advice/opinions given on this thread, we have pulled it up many times during our discussions!! :rotfl::rotfl:

Good for you!
He who dares wins.... and all that

I wish you all the best and hope everything works out for you

zzzLazyDaisy

hazyjo wrote: »

So if I took a 2 year fixed contract and it wasn't renewed, I'd get the same redundancy as I would if I was in a permanent job?!
Jx

Actually, you have even more rights, once the two year point has been reached.

If you take a 2 yr fixed contract, which comes to an end, and dismissal must still be 'fair' within the meaning of the law. The employer cannot simply terminate your employment at the end of the contract amd give you a redundancy payment. There is still a duty to act reasonably and to look for other positions within the organisation to offer you, and only as a last resort make you redundant.

The flip side is that within the first two years of employment, an employee can be dismissed for pretty much any reason (as long as it doesn't fall foul of the anti-discrimination legislation) and the employee has no come-back because, with less than 2 yrs service s/he has no right to make a claim to an employment tribunal. Having said that, in the NHS, a dismissal for no reason is much less likely to happen, even in the first two years, as the disciplinary process is contractual, and the workplace is unionised.