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So I got myself a new job working as an OSHC assistant for a company. This particular company contracts its services out to various primary schools around Australia (and we're not the only one so ).

At the moment I am running emergency relief services, meaning that I could be called in at any time. They also run an online booking service, where you can go online, see what's available and where and book yourself in (my first shift is Friday).

So I go and check to see what's available over the next week or so. Three shifts pop up. OK, not so bad right?

Except that all 3 of them were at the same school.

All three of them started at 8:30am.
All three of them finished at 8:30am.

[dalesys]

All three of them started at 8:30am.
All three of them finished at 8:30am.

The orifice staff wants some quickies?

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The orifice staff wants some quickies?

I just passed on a very polite email asking them is going on.

My first shift is around five or six hours on Friday out at the same school that I mentioned in my first post. It's a local school but it's also one of the biggest primary schools in the state (the student population there is bigger than some high schools!)

I'm sort of lucky in this case because I can work out my schedule based on my workload at uni. If I have more or less to do, then I can simply refuse to take on other shifts (although the money is tempting)

[cinema guy]

Congratulations on the new job.

[Solacelawlz]

sounds like a nice flexible job. grats fire!! let us know how that goes!

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So my first shift was yesterday.

that was fun.

The manager on-site was fairly nice and patient. I still need to learn my way around though. (there were 2 rooms: an "activities" room and the main room)

The kids adored me after a while, although I had a few of the older boys test me a little (and I am very glad that I am NOT teaching Grades Six and Seven this year). There was also one boy there who had some form of an intellectual disability. He wasn't too bad, although the other OSHC worker (a very patient lady) said to me that it took him 4 weeks to come to her with issues. It took him 1 afternoon to come to me .

For kids like him, the company DOES provide what's known as "additional workers" to help him. Because the number of staff depends on the number of kids available (the ratio is something like 1 staff member per 15 kids) the additional worker is funded outside ratio. (and unlike my previous job, we won't be understaffed because of budgets since it's a matter of safety.) I'm hoping for an additional worker slot.

Although the number of kids can be a bit daunting....there can be up to 120 kids who go through this particular service at any time (the school has a very high student population and it's just a primary school!) and the vacation care program can take up to 50.