Applying for a new job while on probation?

trinidadone

I started a new job with a local authority, its a perm position, and i am currently in 2 months during a 6 months probation period. I have spotted a two year fixed term contract with a neighboring local authority. the second job is two grades above, thinking about applying, any thoughts?

diggingdude

Give it a go if it's what you want

trinidadone

if successful i am hoping to be allowed to be released, and return to my substantial position after the fixed term has ended

Alter_ego

trinidadone wrote: »

if successful i am hoping to be allowed to be released, and return to my substantial position after the fixed term has ended

Cake and eat it?

gettingtheresometime

trinidadone wrote: »

if successful i am hoping to be allowed to be released, and return to my substantial position after the fixed term has ended

Surely if it's with a different employer then you'd have to resign to take up the new position?

SummerSunshine2

It’s a two year probation. Any job can sack you within your first two years.

Jump ship if you want.

Comms69

SummerSunshine2 wrote: »

It’s a two year probation. Any job can sack you within your first two years.

Jump ship if you want.

Not necessarily.

Contract rights can appear before two years.

Won’t prevent dismissal; but can lead to a pay out

TELLIT01

trinidadone wrote: »

if successful i am hoping to be allowed to be released, and return to my substantial position after the fixed term has ended

Do you mean that, in effect, you want to leave your current job but expect them to give you your job back in to 2 years time? If that is what you are suggesting I think you need a reality check. Your current employer will take somebody else on to do the work you are currently undertaking. Do you expect them to remove somebody after 2 years to take you back when you decided to move on in the first place?

LilElvis

TELLIT01 wrote: »

Do you mean that, in effect, you want to leave your current job but expect them to give you your job back in to 2 years time? If that is what you are suggesting I think you need a reality check. Your current employer will take somebody else on to do the work you are currently undertaking. Do you expect them to remove somebody after 2 years to take you back when you decided to move on in the first place?

..... and you haven't yet completed, or passed, your probationary period.

trinidadone

TELLIT01 wrote: »

Do you mean that, in effect, you want to leave your current job but expect them to give you your job back in to 2 years time? If that is what you are suggesting I think you need a reality check. Your current employer will take somebody else on to do the work you are currently undertaking. Do you expect them to remove somebody after 2 years to take you back when you decided to move on in the first place?

Your kind of right, so i am wanting my current employer to in affect release me for a fixed term, with the intention of returning, this is quite common in LA. The issue i have is, as mentioned in my first post, i am still on probation, and it is with a neighboring local authority, as appose to the same local authority. so to answer to your two durther questions, yes i would expect a employment agency worker, or someone to be taken on, on a fixed term whjile I am away

LilElvis

trinidadone wrote: »

Your kind of right, so i am wanting my current employer to in affect release me for a fixed term, with the intention of returning, this is quite common in LA. The issue i have is, as mentioned in my first post, i am still on probation, and it is with a neighboring local authority, as appose to the same local authority. so to answer to your two durther questions, yes i would expect a employment agency worker, or someone to be taken on, on a fixed term whjile I am away

If your current employer wanted a fixed, two year term then that is what they would have advertised for, but they didn't - they advertised (and you accepted) a permanent post. So why would they now want to employ someone for two years and then have you return to the post, especially as you haven't completed the probationary period? I think you are asking for/ expecting far too much, unless you are a highly valued employee in a very senior management role.