Exam Invigilator
Lincoln UTC, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1PF32 days remaining to apply
Start date details
March 2025
Closing date
13 January 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
9 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Monday to Friday during exam seasons.
Contract type
- Casual
Hourly rate
- £13.00 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
Lincoln UTC is a specialist school for science, mathematics, and engineering. Our students, aged 14 – 19, enjoy a friendly, mature, and professional learning environment, which is underpinned by equality and supportive relationships, based on tolerance and mutual respect.
The primary responsibility of invigilators is to support candidates in a calm and approachable manner whilst maintaining examination integrity.
Exams take place in AM and PM slots, throughout designated points of the academic year.
The role of an invigilator:
- Ensure exams are taken in a comfortable environment.
- Support candidates: helping them find their seats, to understand how to comply with regulations and to answer any questions.
- Give the invigilator announcements before exams start.
- Monitor students’ attendance and behaviour in the examination room carefully and to ensure compliance with procedures and regulations is followed.
- Complete Invigilator incidents forms and relay any incidents that occur during the exam session back to the Examinations Officer.
- In the event of a student illness or emergency, to contact the Examinations Officer who will ensure a first aider attends the examination room.
- In an emergency, to work with colleagues to organise the exit of candidates from the venue quickly and safely.
Primary duties of invigilators at Lincoln UTC:
- Check in at the Exams office during designated times to collect examination papers and associated paperwork.
- Set out exam papers on the correct desks in advance of students entering the room; in larger rooms, several different exams may take place.
- Organise the admission of students to the room, at the correct time and to the correct desks, in a coherent manner.
- Check candidates’ dictionaries and calculators.
- Escort students to comfort breaks under exam conditions.
- Compile accurate attendance/absentee records.
- Deliver the examination papers back to the Exams office immediately and securely at the end of an examination.
- Demonstrate respect for all students and colleagues.
- Follow policy and procedure on safeguarding and student welfare.
What the school offers its staff
Lincoln UTC is looking for Exam Invigilators to join our expanding team.
You will work as part of a team of invigilators who will ensure exams are carried out according to the Exams Code of Conduct under the direction of our Examinations Officer.
GCSE, A Level, BTEC and T Level exams take place in May/June and mock exams in November/March, of each academic year. The rate of pay is £13.00 per hour. Previous school and exams experience is preferred although not essential as full training and on-going support will be provided.
Exam Invigilator jobs are fantastic for candidates looking for part-time and flexible work to fit around other commitment, but we do ask that you can provide as much availability as possible during the summer GCSE and A-Level exam season. Indicative dates for the summer exam season will be discussed if you are invited to interview.
You will be required to provide a minimum of 2 recent and relevant references. The role is also subject to an Enhanced DBS check, overseas police clearances where applicable and the UTC will carry out checks on eligibility to work in the UK and qualification checks where appropriate.
For an application form please email: hr@lincolnutc.co.uk.
Lincoln UTC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments will be made in accordance with safer recruitment practice and the guidance in ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’. Online checks will be carried out on shortlisted candidates. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references, and checks on suitability to work with children.
Commitment to safeguarding
Lincoln UTC is committed to safeguarding and to safer recruitment practices. You will be required to provide a minimum of 2 recent and relevant references. The role is also subject to an Enhanced DBS check, overseas police clearances where applicable and the UTC will carry out checks on eligibility to work in the UK and qualification checks where appropriate.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr@lincolnutc.co.uk
CVs are not accepted.
About Lincoln UTC
- School type
- Free School, ages 14 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 369 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 14 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Lincoln UTC website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@lincolnutc.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01522775990
Lincoln UTC is a unique learning environment. We are a 14 to 18 specialist college for science, technology, engineering, and maths. Most visitors to the college assume (wrongly) that we are either a selective or a fee-paying private school. This misunderstanding initially stems from the stunning buildings we are fortunate enough to work in. Our Victorian, listed building at the front is reminiscent of Hogwarts. To the rear of the site, our state-of-the-art laboratories and workshops are housed in an equally impressive, but totally contrasting, £9 million new build. The atmosphere within the college is just as impressive as the physical learning environment. Our students don’t wear uniform. They all (right down to Year 10) wear business dress. They look like adults and they behave like adults. This is an unusually calm, purposeful, and respectful learning community.
Lincoln UTC is much smaller than most schools with 400 students, 26 teaching staff and a senior leadership team of just 3 people. The college is always over-subscribed but has no desire to grow beyond its current numbers. As a specialist college we offer fewer subjects than most schools (excelling in the ones that we do) but we do offer students an exceptionally wide range of other (work-related) experiences and opportunities.
When Ofsted inspected the UTC in June 2019 (two good and three outstanding judgements), they commented on the ‘strong and supportive culture and the exceptionally high staff morale’. Pupil behaviour and conduct were described as ‘impeccable’. They went on to say that, ‘the behaviour of pupils is outstanding. Pupils have exceptionally positive attitudes towards their learning.’
Arranging a visit to Lincoln UTC
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@lincolnutc.co.uk.
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