Exam Invigilator
Dean Trust Wigan, Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN5 0DQ26 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
14 January 2026 at 8am
Date listed
19 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- 12.21
Exam Invigilator job summary
The Dean Trust is seeking to appoint a number of enthusiastic Exam Invigilators to work alongside our dedicated Examinations team at Dean Trust Wigan.
The core purpose of the role will be to supervise examination sessions in accordance with regulations and guidance as set out by relevant examination boards. Successful candidates will need to be available during exam periods which typically cover January, May, June.
This is a casual role and successful candidates will be invited to work as and when available during the aforementioned periods. We require our Exam Invigilators to possess an enthusiastic attitude, excellent time management and organisational skills, with the ability to be flexible, display professionalism at all times and handle confidential materials sensitively and appropriately.
The core purpose of the role will be under the direction of the Examinations Officer, to invigilate external examinations
Key responsibilities:
- To supervise pupils participating in formal external examinations in accordance with Examination Board regulations
- To collect examination papers and other examination materials from the Examinations Officer
- To follow instructions provided by the Examinations Officer and Senior Examinations Invigilator for each individual examination
- To help to seat students and distribute any equipment required
- To supervise the collection of mobile phones and other electronic devices in accordance with JCQ regulations
- To write necessary information on noticeboards such as start/finish times.
- To distribute examination papers to pupils
- To read out any relevant instructions to students and to start the examination
- To be responsible for the security of the examination papers and ensure every pupil sits the correct paper
- To ensure a register is completed and report absentees to the Examinations Officer
- To ensure the examination starts/finishes on time and these times are recorded accurately
- To check all students have entered their details correctly on papers and tagged loose sheets together
- To report any breach of examination rules to the Examinations Officer immediately
- To end the examination and collect in papers and other equipment
- To dismiss the pupils in an orderly manner
- To collate papers in order and return to the Examinations Officer as soon as the examination is completed
- To be fully aware of emergency evacuation procedures
- To attend briefing/training sessions when required
- To ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times
- To work in accordance with all Trust procedures and policies, to adhere to the Trust’s professional code of conduct for staff and quality standards for all staff including smart dress code
- Be aware and comply with policies and procedures relating to Safeguarding, child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to the appropriate person
- Participate in training and other learning activities as required
- To undertake any other duties and responsibilities as required that are covered by the general scope of the post
For more information about the role please contact us on 01942 511987 or email dtwoffice@deantrustwigan.co.uk.
Thank you again for your interest in working for The Dean Trust. We look forward to hearing from you.
We are an Equal Opportunities employer committed to ensuring inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates including those from underrepresented groups, and/or with protected characteristics.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): Childcare disqualification, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Medical, Online and social media, Prohibition from teaching, Right to work, Satisfactory references, Suitability to work with children.
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Dean Trust Wigan
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 770 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Dean Trust Wigan website
Dean Trust Wigan is part of The Dean Trust, which has a number of very high performing schools and a proven track record of sustained improvement. The Dean Trust’s core values include traditional academic education, excellent discipline and respect, resulting in improved attainment and progress. “Believe, Achieve, Succeed” has been embraced by all of the schools in The Dean Trust.
Ofsted October 2023- 'Pupils and staff at the school are right to identify the Dean Trust Wigan as an improving school...The school has high expectations for pupils’ academic achievement. Pupils understand how they should behave. Most pupils meet the school’s raised expectations for behaviour. In lessons, most pupils embody the school’s values of ‘be ready, be respectful, be responsible’ through their improved attitudes to learning'.
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