Ping ponged back and forth from Australia to the UK to Australia and now in the UK again. I am a teacher and jobs are pretty easy to come by in London if you want to supply teach. I think it may also be pretty easy to get work in Nurseries but the money is not as good if fulltime. Supply is better I think. When I got sick of supply teaching and wanted the security of a perm job, I had to retrain to get my UK teaching qualification. You can teach for 2 years here without one but that is two chronological years. So if you arrived in 2011 you must begin retraining by 2013 even if you only taught for a few months of those two years due to travel etc.
Things are pretty bad here at the moment with the financial crisis. Although I think things are still cheaper here than in Australia. Food is a prime example!
I have sent my official transcript off to NARIC UK so they can tell tell me what my University degree is worth. So I am waiting for them to get back to me. I won't be getting there until the 12 of December, so I'm not expecting anyone, especially a Nursery, will be willing to hire me less than two weeks before Christmas. But I will still give it a go and apply for as many jobs as possible.
But my partner is living over there, so he has a job and a place for DS and I to stay, plus I have a year worth of savings spare that I can dip in to if I absolutely need to so I will not stress too much, especially since I'm not even there yet.
YOu never know about near Christmas. School goes right up almost the last minute (well it certainly felt like it LOL!) and they only get two weeks off. A nursery attached to a school will still be running and will often need supply cover. I used to get bits and pieces of supply work covering teacher training, staff having to leave their class to organise the school Christmas play etc. So you never know. Sign up with an agency now online. I had a callback within an hour when I applied online when I was in Australia and thinking of going back. After 3 years in Australia unsuccessfully trying to get teaching work I was surprised at the amount of education based work there was here (if you don't want a perm job that is!) Teaching and education agencies are more proactive here. Having spent 6 years in the UK I couldn't believe that I had to do all my jobsearching myself in Australia!! The Australian agencies were rubbish!
If you do do supply work, don't feel you have to do the first job they give you. I used to get a phone call every morning. If I didn't feel like working that day I would ignore the phone. If I did, I knew they would try and sell me their least enticing job first. If I didn't want what they had to offer first, I would ask what else they had. They always had something else when pushed!
Good luck and hope it snows for your first winter here!
We're living in the US. My H got this job and they sorted everything. Paid for our visas and the move. We just have to pay it back pro-rata if he leaves the job in under 2 years.
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