Reducing working hours

History Queen

Hi, I am a post primary teacher with a 22 hour CID.
I currently work in an ETB school, due to having a new baby and my mother getting sick I am looking in to reducing my work hours. Does anyone know is this possible?

I don't want to job share, just reduce my hours to approx 16 or 18 hours per week so that i have more free time in school to get my work done there rather than bringing it home. Has anyone experienced this before? I have rang HR but the person I need to speak to is on annual leave.

History Queen

Having re-read my post I realise that it very much reads as if I want to have my cake and eat it too. I just want to clarify that I only got the 22hour CID last year and always envisioned working full hours but between the baby and my mother's illness I just don't know how I will be able to manage my workload. If it means giving up my CID I'll do so, but I'm hoping that it might be possible to request a temporary (1 year long) reduction in hours or to permanently reduce the hours of my CID rather tjan give it up altogether.

TheDriver

I've never heard of it before but it would be rife in legalities because the person who does your hours could then accrue rights and if you decide to be back at 22 hours, the school could have 2 people with CIDs for some common hours.

History Queen

TheDriver wrote: »

I've never heard of it before but it would be rife in legalities because the person who does your hours could then accrue rights and if you decide to be back at 22 hours, the school could have 2 people with CIDs for some common hours.

I hadn't thought of that, looks like I'll have to give up my CID or maybe agree to a reduced CID (if that's even possible). Thanks fir taking the time to reply.

derb12

Would you consider parental leave for a 4 day week for the year? It may be too late for applying this year. Many schools already have their timetables done by now.
If it doesn’t work out, I’d advise you to stick to your full hours but take steps to reduce workload. With good planning so that you stagger tests and copybook corrections, plenty of peer correcting, strategically organised YouTube videos etc you can lighten your workload. Also consider if it might be practical for you to stagger your family schedule so that for example, you go to work early while your other half takes care of the mornings with the baby. A colleague of mine does this - she’s in the staffroom from 7:30 correcting copies etc but is first out the door on the dot of 3:30.
Best of luck with everything

History Queen

derb12 wrote: »

Would you consider parental leave for a 4 day week for the year? It may be too late for applying this year. Many schools already have their timetables done by now.
If it doesn’t work out, I’d advise you to stick to your full hours but take steps to reduce workload. With good planning so that you stagger tests and copybook corrections, plenty of peer correcting, strategically organised YouTube videos etc you can lighten your workload. Also consider if it might be practical for you to stagger your family schedule so that for example, you go to work early while your other half takes care of the mornings with the baby. A colleague of mine does this - she’s in the staffroom from 7:30 correcting copies etc but is first out the door on the dot of 3:30.
Best of luck with everything

Thanks for the reply, my husband leaves for work at 6am and doesn't get home until 6pm most evenings. Parental leave requests in anything less than weekly blocks are not accomodated by our ETB according to HR. However, you make a very good point about staggering my workload, being more strategic about corrections etc. will surely help.