Balancing work in the NHS during school hours

Hello I am looking for some advice. Is anyone here in the health care sector? My husband is in the navy. Fortunately he is on land for the next year. However, he can do deployments of 4 months or so at a time. We don't live on base/site. We live near family. We have a 2.5 year old who will start school next September. The question is, how on earth do you find a job in health care that will fit around taking my child to school and picking him up lol. I know most working parents have this issue, regardless of their job. But how do you do it? Our families work and would be unable to help out. I guess wrap around care but I feel reluctant to do that all the time. It sounds like a silly question but I am just curious to learn, what do people do so I can learn from it too. Thank you 🙂

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Nothing much you can do really other than paying for full time care, thats how I had to do it until I found a WFH role but my child is 11 now and those days are over - it was very costly but i wanted to keep my job and im glad I did. - all I did back then was working and keeping track of the money basically on survival mode until the child got older

I had to change roles and go into 9-5 nursing so I can always be free for drop off and pick up when deployments come around!

@Katy Thank you for your comment. Yes I did thank that would be the case. I have just interviewed and have been offered a 9-5 nursing job but I have found out that they cannot be so flexible when it comes to me finishing earlier than 5 to pick up my child when we get to that stage. We live out in the sticks, so wherever I work may involve a 20-30 min commute to work. Perhaps I shouldn't be thinking about it all yet but I guess as a mum I like to think ahead as I need a job that suits home life too. Something to figure out for sure. Thank you 😊 x

@Sawin Thank you for your comment. Survival mode is so daunting sometimes. It must have been so challenging at times trying to balance it all. I bet you were so pleased when you managed to get a WFH role. It's so hard when they are small trying to juggle everything x

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