Exam Invigilator

Queen Mary's High School, Walsall, West Midlands, WS4 2AE

37 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  November 2025

• Closing date

  2 November 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  26 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: Casual
• Contract type: Casual
• Hourly rate: Casual invigilator rate SCP4 - £13.05 per hour (excluding holiday pay) / £14.63 per hour (including holiday pay)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Exam Invigilator – Queen Mary’s High School

Location: Queen Mary’s High School, Upper Forster Street, Walsall, West Midlands, WS4 2AE

Start Date: Required from November 2025Contract: Casual / Permanent

Salary: £13.05 per hour (excluding holiday pay) / £14.63 per hour (including holiday pay)

Closing Date: Sunday 2nd November 2025

Interview Date: Friday 7th November 2025

Key Responsibilities

• Invigilate public and internal examinations as per Examination Body regulations.
• Supervise candidates before and after assessments.
• Invigilate the School’s entrance examination when required.
• Undertake administrative tasks set by the Exams Officer, such as taking registers and assisting with packing scripts.
• Promote the ethos and aims of Queen Mary’s High School and The Mercian Trust.
• Carry out any other reasonable duties as requested by the Headteacher, Senior Leadership Team, or Exams Officer.

Person Specification

• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Reliability and punctuality.
• Ability to use initiative and keep calm under pressure.
• Flexible approach to work.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience in an invigilation role within a school is desirable but not essential (full training provided).

The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment Policies can be found on our website. This position is subject to appropriate vetting procedures including a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions as part of the recruitment process.

What the school offers its staff

About the Role

Queen Mary’s High School is seeking dedicated, reliable, and dynamic Exam Invigilators to join our supportive Examinations Department. You will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth running of both internal and public examinations, upholding the highest standards in accordance with awarding body regulations.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding at QMHS. Our school’s aims and vision statement very clearly states that we strive to ensure that the individual needs of all our highly able students are met. At QMHS and across the Mercian Trust we recognise that the emotional wellbeing and positive mental health of all members of the community is integral to our continued success. We have built and continue to strengthen a community of support for all stakeholders which includes pupils, staff and parents/carers.

Applying for the job

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Exam Invigilator Application Pack Sept 25.pdf - 288 KB (opens in new tab)

About Queen Mary's High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 944 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Queen Mary's High School website
• Email address: lottie.fellows@merciantrust.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/queen-mary-s-high-school

Queen Mary’s High School is built upon a well established history of success, shaping exceptional young women for young adulthood. We are one of the top performing state schools in the country, consistently maintaining a high position nationally for GCSE and A Level outcomes. We were inspected by Ofsted in October 2022 and are proud to have been judged as Outstanding in all aspects of our provision.

Today, there are more opportunities for young women to succeed in society than there have ever been before and we firmly believe that there is no limit to the personal, social and academic achievement that is possible for each and every one of our students.

We are a school community passionate about learning and in cultivating an exceptional educational environment in which our young people are enabled to be the very best version of themselves. Our school community is one in which our students are expertly equipped with not only knowledge and understanding but the skills, the attributes and expertise to achieve their ambitions, and to fully realise their potential.

Support, care, and guidance for each young person is at our core and the Queen Mary’s High School values of responsibility, honesty, integrity, respect and tolerance underpin all that we as a school community stand for. We ask that parents help us in supporting their child in demonstrating these values each day, in school, at home and online. Only through working together in partnership will we ensure that we are all, together, incredibly proud of their achievements, progress and growth.

Arranging a visit to Queen Mary's High School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email lottie.fellows@merciantrust.org.uk.

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